Media Convergence

1. Participatory Culture

2. Lurking allows you learn about what others are doing and produce your own opinion

2.1. For example, as you watch and read other people's political posts on facebook you are able to judge  and produce your own opinion on it

3. Participating Culture is when you participate in  different media platforms whether it be posting your own opinion or lurking.

3.1. For example, posting your own political opinion on your social media is allowing you to interactively participate with friends and peers about your opinion in getting it out there.

4. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat

5. Easily accessible through different media platforms

5.1. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, News websites

6. Access for the electronic world

7. Media convergence is ubiquitous, Whether we want it or not.

7.1. Surveillance culture are when big corporations and the government monitors our actions and "likes" on media platforms for their own use

7.1.1. Everything we view is monitored, and everything we upload is saved