1. The introduction of this book is about what he plans to talk about with media convergence. There is not too much in detail yet, simply because this in an intro but what he has to say is very insightful. He discusses how he wants people to understand how convergence is impacting the media they consume but he also seems to focus on the popular culture subject area. What these changes mean to us and how they will change is what he will be discussing in his upcoming chapters.
2. “Printed words did not kill spoken words. Cinema did not kill theatre. Television did not kill radio.”
“Yet, history teaches us that old media never die-and they don’t even necisarially fade away. What dies are simply the tools we use to access media content.”
“Welcome to convergence culture, where old and new media collide, where grassroots and corporate media intersect, where the power of the media producer and the power of the media consumer interact in unpredictable ways.”
3. This relates to my life in almost every way. I am always researching on my spare time for whats new and what is to come in the technological world. Reading and dissecting the future of some of these technologies. Ever since I was a kid, I would get the newest technology at the time, no matter how long I had to save up for it.
4. How does this relate to Everything is Miscelaneous? This books talks about how all these things are converging or building off of each other, in Weinberger’s book, he talks about how there is so much out there that it needs to be organized. With the more convergence there is, the more organizing and forms of organizing there needs to be.
2,3,4 are pretty solid here but 1 is really vague. It's hard for me to tell from this if you read or not. Work on pulling out some of the specifics of a text when you summarize it and don't go SO big picture that it could've been about any text talking about convergence. Instead your summary should clearly be about Jenkins text. Make sense? See me if you have questions.
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