With the proliferation of digital platforms like Instagram, Netflix, and YouTube, we are faced with the question of whether we have entered an age of truly “new” media. In grappling with media’s shifting place in the digital era, Cinephile 12.1 combines philosophical and new media discourses to set classical and contemporary thought in dialogue. Throughout this issue, new media texts and platforms are deconstructed and, perhaps unsurprisingly, consensus on the impact, definition, and novelty of this phenomenon remains productively unresolved.