I think that this article demonstrates how the younger generation has adapted to converged media more so than perhaps the usual generalized older generation. “The older generation is often baffled by the sight of teens gathered at a fast-food
restaurant, gazing at their mobile phones rather than their friends.”
However it also demonstrates why it is a success that the older generations do not understand, “Teens use mobile phones to bring in the presence of other friends who were not able to make it to the physical gathering, or of accessing information that is relevant to that particular time and place. The boundaries of a particular physical gathering, or flesh meet, are becoming extended through the use of mobile technologies, before, during, and after the actual encounter.”
The article talks about how people arrange meetings through phones, and have aftermath conversations such as “thanks for the lift” etc, through phones (not necessarily phone calls or text messages, it talks about e-mails from mobiles too – definitely a sample of converged media!)
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I wonder if digital convergence is returning us to the old situation where geographically immobile people kept a wide circle of friends throughout their lives -in contrast to the West's last 40 years where the majority became cast adrift as education & work took them away from their roots?
I think that digital convergence might help friendships stay alive for a bit longer, but if they're going to end then they will end regardless of the new and upcoming Media.
I think things like facebook definately demonstrate how people can 'keep in touch' with people that people from 40 years ago wouldnt have been able too, but like Brian Winston said in the lecture, if they really wanted to keep in contact they would have!
So I do think that Media Convergence has changed society, into being one that thinks they should cling onto people that they have met in the past who really otherwise they wouldnt have bothered keeping in touch with. Anyone else agree?
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