CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Arpanet, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Cern

• 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 computing, communication networks, and content. 3 cs: computing and information technology (it, communication networks, content and digitized media; arising out of another process: a fourth c, convergence. Convergent media can be seen as combining computing, communications, and media content. New media can be thought of as digital media. 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 (eg usb flash drives) or on network servers. Compressible: the amount of capacity that digital information takes up on any network can be reduced dramatically through compression, and decompressed when needed.