As we shift from an industrial society to an information society, from old media to new media, the overlap between producers and users becomes significantly larger. This holds true for the software the two groups use, their respective skills and expertise, the structure of typical media objects, and the operations they perform on computer data. While some software products are aimed at either professional producers or end users, other software is used by both groups: Web browsers and search engines, word processors, media-editing applications such as Photoshop (the latter routinely employed in postproduction of Hollywood feature films) or Dreamweaver. Further, differences in functionality and pricing between professional and amateur software are quite small (a few hundred dollars or less), compared to the real gap between equipment and formats used by professionals and amateurs before new media … Similarly, the gap in skills between professionals and amateurs has also become smaller. For instance, although employing Java or DHTML for Web design in the late 1990s was the domain of professionals, many Web users were also able to create basic Web pages using such programs as FrontPage, HomePage, or Word.