PowerPoint Presentation convergence community

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Convergence, a seemingly benign term, entails a
whole host of technological dependencies that
affect our daily lives.
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"Community" is most commonly defined as "an
aggregate of people who share a common interest
in a particular locality".
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convergence ? community
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my/our space
utopic
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With the integration of the telephone,
television, and computer, all forms of
information, images, and data can be easily
transferred between locations, opening up the
possibility for a diversity of communication
flows that reflect various ways of producing and
accessing information.
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my space
your space
nobody's space
dystopic
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By retreating from the complexity of the modern
world into electronic space, Internet users are
trying to control and refashion interactions,
negating the variety of interactions and
exchanges that are possible in the "real" world.
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How does community influence convergence?
How does convergence influence community?