Wednesday, 6 February 2008

Task one - Key Terms

Portability - Portability is a New media technology in which has a quality of being light enough and small enough to be carried around. Examples of this are pen drives, mobile phones, laptops and ipods.

CONVERGENCE - Is when the occurrence of two different media technologies or more come together. For example Computers and Televisions come together they are able to display the same media. There merged together into a hybrid with World Wide Web style content. For the two to truly converge the content that can be received by both devices should be the same.


INTERACTIVITY - Interactivity relates to new media technologies where humans and animals are able to interact with dialog. For example games are usually thought of as fostering a great amount of interactivity. On the internet, you not only interact with the browser but also pages of which the browser brings to you.

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