CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Web 2.0, Technological Convergence, New Media

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Internet-connected device: chapter explains the characteristics of digital information and how those characteristics result in a particular type of communication that can be summed up as interactive. Interactive: the ability to contribute to as well as consume media, generally reserved for activities that extend beyond merely changing channels. Internet services are almost all interactive: we examine the internet as one of the most important new media forms of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and review its history, social implications and recent growth of. Web 2. 0 focusing on the role of search engines: web 2. 0, called the (cid:522)read-write web(cid:523, refers to any website in which the contributions to and the evolution of the site happens through the web, via the site users. Media companies own internet companies, but also television shows with complementary websites on all devices: possibility that one might speak of convergence from three different perspectives, technology, services.