What is Media Convergence?

Media convergence is a phenomenon

involving the interconnection of information and

communications technologies, computer

networks, and media content. It transforms

established industries, services, and work

practices and enables entirely new forms of content to emerge.

It erodes long-established media industry and content “silos” and increasingly uncouples

content from particular devices, which in turn presents major challenges for public policy and

regulation. Media Convergence happens when different (two or more) media sources join

together. It allows tests to be produced distributed on multiple media services.

Technological Convergence is an example

of media convergence, it is also known as the digital

convergence it is the tendency for technologies that

were originally unrelated to become more closely

integrated and even unified as they develop

and advance. For example,  telephones, television,

and computers began as separate and mostly unrelated technologies, but have converged in many

ways into interrelated parts of a telecommunication and media industry, sharing common

elements of digital electronics and software.