Convergence

Within the reading three common themes that were discussed were Convergence.

   The definition of convergence is the coming together of things that were previously separate. Within
the book there is more of an emphasis on more of the everyday uses of digital media such as: I
tunes, Google, Wiki etc. This leads to the usage of the term convergent media which refers to media
content, industries, technologies that are both practiced and networked.

The word convergence has been studied and analyze by many different people creating many different definitions. For example Klaus Bruhn Jensen describing convergence as a migration of communicative practices. Other authors have stressed convergence of computing.

 

            Many different opinions on the actually definition has been expressed by many different
authors but simplified this seems to be the changes and separations found within media.

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