Convergence Culture

Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide

I'm indeed really sorry for posting this piece late; I got the book so late.

I like how Henry Jenkins is presenting all these media related issues in his book. Jen-kins is telling about “the black box” that is making as multitasking and getting more deeply into media world. But who is actually deciding, what kind of “black box” is in our living room and are we the people that decide what we will see and use from “the black box”? Is it always money that makes us move?

Where the old and new media collide is just not the technology, but the people that are using new and old media. It is more about adapting new media instead of old one to survive in modern media world. We are indeed living in the middle of media storm, but the question is that can we use our media for good? Even when people are using social media as facebook or twitter or what ever, do we use it for good? Or are we just making ourselves lonelier than ever. As we are taking more distance to “real” people, we are learning new ways to keep contact. So actually we are making choice, how we use our “black box”, but still it is always depends cultural influence. Like facebook or blogging is not open for everyone, so this way “the black box” rules are with the government.

As Jenkins points out the change we are living, we do not feel the change because we are living the moment now. Everything will be different in less than 10 years and then we will study again, what we did not know then. And the one researcher that makes best guess, what will happen in future will be celebrated as a innovating genius in that time.

Jenkins, Henry (2008) Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: NYU Press.