CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Microwave Transmission, Flat Earth

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

Convergence: the process by which media technologies, industries and services merge through changes in communication networks and content. Friedman said convergence is in turn generating a global flat earth where activities conducted through digital media can occur in any part of the world. It refers to the interlinking of computing and it, communications networks, and media content that occurred with the development and popularization of the internet. It also refers to the morphing of devices and making them multipurpose. ex) Such media, or forms of digital information, have the characteristics of being. Manipulable: digital information is easily changeable and adaptable, at all stages of creation, storage, delivery, and use; Networkable: digital information can be shared and exchanged between large numbers of users simultaneously, and across enormous distances; Dense: very large amounts of digital information can be stored in small physical spaces (e. g. , usb flash drives) or on network servers;