What is Convergence?
-Basically it is just like a changing of media, improving the features and usage of media nowadays. In addition, it was just like some combination from different kinds of features or function in media.
Do new media convergence change our life? The answer is yes.
1) Mobile phones- last time mobiles phone was just only for us to text a message or made a call but nowadays those smart phones we are using like Iphone,Galaxy Tab and others smart phone. It was just only to made a call or text a message, it can allowed us to access the internet all the time, send an email, do our work in phone, checking mail, even google map and GPS system that can guide and give direction to a place. And also we can check the time around the world. In addition, it can let us play a lot of games and watching TV or our favorite drama in our smart phone. Just like I-phone it already had the I-pod features that can let us listening to songs and we do not need to buy another new I-pod. See! Nowadays, mobile phones had changed a lot, it become more multitasking for us, and of course it bringing us a lot advantages and convenient. Just like us, we do not need to go back to office and home, then on our computer to check a mail as we can directly check our mail by using phone.
2) Vii- Play game station, this is a machines that allowed us to play a lot of games. The older modal of it will PS, PS2, and PS3, this is the latest one. Why I would like to take this as examples? It is because of this machines can replace we doing exercise at outside, such as tennis ball, golf, badminton, running and others sport games. In this machine had provide a lot of sports games and which can let us exercise at home instead of exercise outside. We can do any kind of exercise in house. Anyway, will it replace those sports court? For me, actually not really as not everyone effort to buy it. In other hand, this PS play game station was eep changing the features of it, of course is not that famous as smart phone nowadays.
3) Online Newspaper, nowadays people can easily to access online newspaper all the time and do not buy a traditional newspaper to read. Of course it won't replace the traditional newspaper as not everyone know how to access online newspaper such as citizen. Anyway, this was a good examples to see how's the new media convergence change nowadays. As you know, last time newspaper was just only black and white, then after that only got color on it but now had already become an online system to let us access.
The 3 examples at above were just some of the media examples had changed to new media convergence.
I hope that it had clearly to shown how the new media convergence nowadays and also the definition of it.
In the conclusion, media convergence- in my mind, it was just giving me more advantages than disadvantages as it bringing a lot of convenient for us in our life, just like what I had mentioned at above there. And also like what we doing in our education now, whenever we do our assignments will automatically use computers as our tools to finish up the work and also find information by using online source, Google was the good examples as whenever what we want to know and find, will automatically type and access Google to find out the information. Old media was not died, it was jut the new media convergence keep improving and changing by the changing of century. Media convergence will not stop and it will keep changing and updating.
Hope you guys enjoy reading it.
The improvement of mobile phone to smart phone is really having the big difference. In former days, people tend to use mobile phone to make calling or sms. But, smartphone like Iphone and Ipad. The creators are so smart, they have integrated most of the computer's features into it. Smartphone even have high mega pixel of camera, microsoft word, 3G and et cetera which could make us multitask these in the same time.
ReplyDeleteYou gave the excellent example! Well done. The change of mobile phone is the most obvious example for media convergence. The first mobile phone was like a bottle shape with a super small screen to just able to show the number of person that called. People can't even send text message, the only function of the mobile phone will be call and receive call. But now, the mobile phone has a huge screen, able to call, send text message, play games, mp3 player, camera, can connect to internet, and alot more application. The mobile phone can make us multitasking, for example, sending text message while listening to song, on facebook, and even twitter on the same time. =)
ReplyDeleteThe developments of the technologies make peoples can save a lot of time, money even energy to help people done their jobs. From the newspaper example you made, we can see that we spend money on purchasing the print newspaper and we just see through once a days as news will keep updating every day. Sometimes, we need to go the newspaper stall to purchase the newspaper as there have not deliver services for the resident areas. This made the consumers waste their money, time and also energy before reading to the news. However, due to the development of media convergence, we can read though the latest news online because of the internet’s development. We can save paper in the way of less printed newspapers. Besides that, we can multitask too as the online newspaper also provided video, sound reading and feedback for the readers to make the interactive more interesting.
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