convergence
Convergence
- Media technologies coming together and performing similar tasks
- Hard wares capabilities to do more than before.
- Phones to make phones calls, send texts, emails, take pictures, access to the internet, listen to music produce films, distribute.
Media I Consume on a smartphone:
-Movies
-Music
- Games
- Books/ Comics
Media I produce on a smartphone:
- Snapchat
- Photo editing
- Film editing
- Instagram
The same is happening across all platforms of media. Take for example a digital SLR - once only used by only professionals - now you can buy one in marks and spencers software is the same, HD content can editededitied on your home PC using off the shelf software. 3 years ago at, the bbc they missed this - and were still looking at specialist software.

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