CMST 1A03 Midterm: Chapter 8
10 Mar 2017
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Chapter 8 - communication policy - sector by sector. Convergence combining once-separate communication technologies (e. g. telephone and camera smartphone). The key to this process is the digitization of media content such that it can be translated into a common format. Corporate convergence is the combining of resources/content from 2+ media properties to save money. Interactivity as a descriptor of media, the inclusion of user-created content as part of what is presented to the audience. While it may be claimed that such devices as letters to the editor are an interactive element of newspapers and magazines, they are placed in separate sections from the content produced by the publication itself. Cultural industries groups of companies that employ large scale, industrial methods to produce cultural products. Canadian radio-television and telecommunications commission (crtc) federal agency that enforces the rules/regulations for broadcasters and telecommunications companies in canada, as set out in the 1993 telecommunications act.
