Media Convergence

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Media Convergence Worksheet

Write brief 250- to 300-word answers to each of the following:

|Questions |Answers |
|What is meant by the term media |Technological convergence is the process by which existing technologies merge into new |
|convergence with regard to technology, |forms that bring together different types of media and applications. Devices can interact |
|and how has it affected everyday life? |with a wider array of media types thru technological convergence. As technology advances |
| |new models might include additional features like the ability to interact with more |
| |devices or play other types of media. Technological convergence takes voice, data, and |
| |video and allows them to share resources and interact with each other. Technological |
| |convergence occurs when multiple products come together to form one product with the |
| |advantages of all of them. The biggest challenge for technological convergence faces are |
| |reaching and protecting public interest and avoid being used politically and artificially |
| |to protect broadcasters and their regulations. Technological convergence has had |
| |transformative effects in the television sector. Technological media convergence has |
| |affected many people because not only things changing and advancing but people have to |
| |learn how to use them. I know people who are limited to the information