Digitisation: the revolution of New Media

Before the digital age, Media terms such as Convergence and Remediation (definitions) did exist but comparing with the present it was very limited. For example a book would be a convergence of reading material and Images. Also a reader would be in a state of Immediacy  while reading a novel and the Hypermediacy could occurs when turning to the next page.

Now, digitalised Media took terms like Convergence and Remediation to a whole new level. For example, Maps which was a piece of paper remediated to something like Google maps. Fast and interactive, we can find any locations anywhere in the world by a single click.

While Google maps is a convergence of many mediums. E.g. pictures and information about the location, it still has a lot to offer. New application on Facebook “Facebook Places” is collaboration between Facebook and Google which allow users to find out about the place of their friends by knowing their last time and place when they checked in on Facebook!

Both Facebook and Google maps converge many mediums, and yet both converge to deliver this massive new way of medium between people which very hard to say that it`s a remediation of anything happened before.