Critics about the Convergence Culture

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Author(s): Andres Kalikoske (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 10
Source title: Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Brasilina Passarelli (School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil), Joseph Straubhaar (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)and Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch002

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities / Socio-Economic Development

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In the ambit of Political Economy of Communication and Culture, the following article intends to problematize the convergence culture, comprising its complexity since the political, economic and social divergences that constitutes it. Therefore, it is offered a partial perspective of a “convergence society”. Four processes are especially explained, in order to make possible a critical diagnosis of the social rooting potential proposed by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in our time: the vigilance systems, the convergence multiple processes, the participation culture and the concurrence among consolidated media.

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