CCT109H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thomas Friedman, Flat Earth, Computer Network

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Coleman, B

Document Summary

Rate of change in media technologies , services. Newness : updates of long established commodities. Digital natives - world with no internet ,email,mobile ,video games , digital cameras etc. Unknown discoveries to ancients : printing , gunpowder , magnet . Changes in world in order : literature ,warfare , navigations. Convergent media : computing , communication, content. Convergence - waits in which media business have changed. Cd-roms were the first developments and then came internet. Phones and computers have been used for conversations and calculators in. It"s no longer only print ,radio and television. It"s emerged to computers and internet their earlier days. Thomas friedman - convergence is generating flat earth where activities conducted through digital media can occur in any part of world. Digital media are forms of media content combining and integrating data text sound and images which are stored in digital form and distributed through networks such as broadband ,satellites etc.