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'Twitter not only leads the news cycles but also frames the coverage' -Eleanor Mills, editorial director, The Sunday Times

Discussion

Search Engines

Media over Space

Discussion

Do you think convergence is getting too common in our lives? (e.g advertisements of products we've previously looked at elsewhere)

Spreading news

  • With Search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing, we can find the information we want in seconds
  • Explore different results that lead us to new ideas
  • Share links online to help others into finding the right information

Do you think we have reached our limit of media convergence? Or can it go even further?

A WALL-E LIKE FUTURE?

Do you think that the ability to control a space (like in video games) can become an obsession?

What do you think this could lead to?

Do you think social media is a good thing or that rather than being for "socializing" it makes us unsociable?

Is this all having a negative or positive impact?

With everything at the palm of our hand it's easy for everyone to become lazy.

We can get food delievered to our houses, talk to anyone we want to anytime we want, even see people through our screens.

"We can eliminate space and distance"

- Graham Meikle.

Years ago you would only access news through reading a newspaper or watching news at set TV news programme times.

Now you can read the news online and search the latest news related to the topic you are interested in at anytime.

News is also spread through social network sites... giving journalists new ways to deliver their stories to audiences, and audiences new ways to find news.

  • Skype gives us the access to converse with people around the world in mere seconds
  • Viber allows us to text and call people from different countries free of charge.
  • With Twitter we can retweet others' comments from different areas of the world
  • Video games lets us control their world and their space
  • We can use apps to control what our TV at home records

Discussion

There is no longer a need to go over to your friends house in order to socialize, you can simply play online.

Computer games can give someone the ability to control a space.

The Sims:

Create a neighbourhood of customised sims: from the shape of their nose to the length of their lives.

"Social Media makes the world smaller"

In 10 years time, do you think technology will have given us more control over time and space? Or have we reached our limit?

"The distance between any two people is shrinking as the number of network connections continues to grow"

Social media allows us to have contact with people we would not have met otherwise.

Social networking is the most popular online activity worldwide.

In October 2011, 1.2 billion users around the world visited social networking sites

nearly 1 in every 5 minutes is now spent in social networks

Media Convergence

Do you think that us being able to watch TV when and where we want benefits the TV industry?

Surrogates Trailer

  • We can continue viewing the media on the go
  • We share Web links and images through Facebook and Twitter
  • Bit Torrent gives us movies and TV shows to download and watch before they air in your country

Time Travel

Technology lets us see things in the future and from our past:

  • Satellites can predict weather patterns coming the next day
  • 3D diagrams can give us an image of architecture in the past and buildings in the future

And no longer do we have to wait until tomorrow or next week to watch the next episode... some programmes offer the next programme up to a week early. Or, we can record an entire series on series link (or buy a boxset) and watch them all at once.

Waiting for the next days newspaper is a thing of the past... now news is available constantly, instantly, timelessly...

Idea of the human race becoming obsessed with control and technology... life becomes like a computer game

Controlling Time

An example of how powerful media convergence can be found is in the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound:

  • One contribution to the CIA finding the location of the compound was because of the lack of media convergence being used in the area: no internet connection or phone line.
  • Sohaib Athar, a pakistani citizen, live tweeted the top secret raid of Osama Bin Laden's compound: without realising.
  • President Obama and his senior staff, were able to watch the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound via live camera feed on a soldier's helmet.
  • The next day, a photo of Obama and his senior staff watching the event appeared on the White House's official Flickr page.

"Timeless Time" - Castells

Due to technology, we are increasingly in control of time. Using the record, re-wind, pause and catch-up options we can mould TV to our own schedule.

TV is being re-shaped.

Not only can we choose when we watch it, we can also choose where... gone are the days we had to wait until we were sat in front of the TV to watch our favourite programmes... now we can even watch them on our phones or tablets on the way to work, if we want to.

Another example of powerful media convergence is when Ellen DeGeneres' selfie at the 2014 Oscars was retweeted over 3,000,000 times...which broke President Obama's record of 781,403 retweets

The picture became so widely popular on social media websites that several remakes of the photo were created.

TODAY

We will discuss:

  • Tools we use to control media, space and time
  • What areas we explore using the media
  • How far media convergence can go

"Perspective is a particular strategy of representing

the world. It allows us to order and control

what we see" -Mirzoeff, 2009: 29

Technology even enables us to see a baby before it is born...

Time, Space, and convergence

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