Convergence

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Convergence

• Friend or Frankensteins Monster?

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Convergence Conventional Taxonomy

• Technological
• Content

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Convergence Ecological Perspective

• Communication is culture.
• Culture is a system.
• Systems are environments.
• Effects upon one part of an environment affect
  the entire environment (ecological principle).
• Convergence is an effect.

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Convergence Ecological Perspective, contd

• Media technologies are never neutral.
• Technological change therefore can be positive or
  negative most likely both, simultaneously, and
  unexpectedly (reactant or Newtonian principle).

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So, is convergence friend or Frankensteins
monster?
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Convergence

• Friend or Frankensteins Monster?