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Content, computing, communications
Convergence is a term that describes a number of related processes in the contemporary media environment. This week, we consider technological convergence, through which the previously separate sectors of computing, media content and telecommunications have now become inseparably connected. Our media environment is now not only digital but also networked. Despite this, much of the study of media remains grounded in the broadcast media paradigm of the twentieth century. This week’s set reading discusses the significance of the words digital and network, as well as introducing some of the main ways in which technology has been understood in the study of media and culture.
Content, computing, communications
Convergence is a term that describes a number of related processes in the contemporary media environment. This week, we consider technological convergence, through which the previously separate sectors of computing, media content and telecommunications have now become inseparably connected. Our media environment is now not only digital but also networked. Despite this, much of the study of media remains grounded in the broadcast media paradigm of the twentieth century. This week’s set reading discusses the significance of the words digital and network, as well as introducing some of the main ways in which technology has been understood in the study of media and culture.