Hum 179 Media Convergence

University of Phoenix Material

07/18/2012 Media Convergence Worksheet

Write brief 250- to 300-word answers to each of the following:

|Questions |Answers |

|What is meant by the term media |Media convergence means the lines are getting blurred between traditional forms |

|convergence with regard to technology, |convergence with technology of the media and almost becoming one. Media convergence plays |

|and how has it affected everyday life? |a very an important role in how it has affected everyday life of the evolution of mass |

| |communication the evolution and media convergence occurs whenever it establish forms |

| |communication technology to create new technologies offering new mass communications. The |

| |internet allows magazines and newspapers to merge with new technology and computers to |

| |increase and report information to readers frequently. Amazon allows readers to have |

| |E-readers to combine medium of books with electronic display technologies to offer a new |

| |convenient method way of reading. A new source of media mass converge is unavailable for |

| |communication and changing the way we receive and send messages. Years ago, there was a |

| |clear difference between print media, internet in general, television and social media in |

| |particular. Now newspapers and television have web sites, these sites deliver news almost |

| |in real time complete with moving feeds and video. Today...