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Submitted by HardcoreSIUfan24 on March 27, 2007
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Imagine, if you will, a life without electronics. Imagine a world where everything that we did or used didn’t revolve around anything electronical. That’s a question that most of us would probably never imagine ever happening. In today’s society, over 95 percent of things that we use are electronical (source 1). Fortunately (or unfortunately) that number will only increase thanks to what is known as media convergence. Meaning that items that we use today that makes our lives better will converge with other useful items in an attempt to make our lives a little bit easier and faster. A lot of media converging has already begun which includes music in cell phones (putting MP3 compatibility in all new cell phones) and television and internet (putting live and recorded television shows over the internet) just to name a few. These types of media convergence is something that would look as though would make things easier and faster. One of the main goals of convergence is to not only to combine hardware, but to make media that much more efficient. Though the thought of convergence sounds like it would be more of a benefit then a problem, some people are against the thought of convergence. Sure, combining different forms of medium will help those in the long run, but is it any better then what we already have now?
On the exact opposite of the spectrum there is media divergence. Some people in the world believe that converging so much into one can save time, but can become quite cumbersome. In other words, having one machine that does several different task can become more of a distraction then an actual helper. According to text book Broadcasting in America by Sydney Head, those who are against convergence are to be thought of as “technophobia-the fear of or lack of interest in technology on the part of many Americans” (Head 7). On the average, Mr. Head seems to be correct with his assumption. Those who do not know much or anything about computers would not be...
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