Media convergence is a theory in communications where forms of mass media merge together to create a new product offering a variety of the properties of each.
Croteau and Hoynes 2003 article claim that convergence has become most visible on the Internet. This is a convergence of the phone line, and the computer which can further dipict media created through other mediums such as photos from cameras, soundbites from the radio and video from the camera. The aim of convergence is to continuously improve the current inventions we have by merging them together.
Convergence has become most visible on the Internet, where the technology for streaming audio and video is evolving rapidly.
According to the theory of media convergence, very soon, there will be no more need for having a television and a computer separate from each other, since both would be able to do the job of the other, ultimately making both extinct and creating a new medium from the synthesis.
As a communication theory, media convergence aims to bring together all forms of media into one single device.
Media convergence really refers to the merging of capabilities of each individual media channel. Technology is aiding the deletion of individual devices, but this is not what is referred to here. Media convergence is the ability for an increasingly diverse range of content to be delivered through a range of media channels. Unlike the traditional delivery of TV programs through TV, we can now receive TV programs not only on a TV, but also a mobile phone, a computer, an Ipod etc. Convergence is not the reduction of devices but the expansion of channels to content combinations.
A recent example of convergence is the iPhone by Apple which converges the television, personal computer, iPod, mobile, internet and camera. The iPhone puts the theory of convergence to the test to find if one medium comprised of all the elements of the media is most successful.
Croteau and Hoynes 2003 article claim that convergence has become most visible on the Internet. This is a convergence of the phone line, and the computer which can further dipict media created through other mediums such as photos from cameras, soundbites from the radio and video from the camera. The aim of convergence is to continuously improve the current inventions we have by merging them together.
Convergence has become most visible on the Internet, where the technology for streaming audio and video is evolving rapidly.
According to the theory of media convergence, very soon, there will be no more need for having a television and a computer separate from each other, since both would be able to do the job of the other, ultimately making both extinct and creating a new medium from the synthesis.
As a communication theory, media convergence aims to bring together all forms of media into one single device.
Media convergence really refers to the merging of capabilities of each individual media channel. Technology is aiding the deletion of individual devices, but this is not what is referred to here. Media convergence is the ability for an increasingly diverse range of content to be delivered through a range of media channels. Unlike the traditional delivery of TV programs through TV, we can now receive TV programs not only on a TV, but also a mobile phone, a computer, an Ipod etc. Convergence is not the reduction of devices but the expansion of channels to content combinations.
A recent example of convergence is the iPhone by Apple which converges the television, personal computer, iPod, mobile, internet and camera. The iPhone puts the theory of convergence to the test to find if one medium comprised of all the elements of the media is most successful.
Mandy (Amanda) Murders (22) was born May 31, 1985. She grew up in California and Idaho, but now resides with her fiance, wiL Francis (Lead singer of Aiden) in Seattle, Washington. Many people know Mandy Murders for her modeling on Alt Pinup site GodsGirls.com. As well as modeling on GodsGirls, Mandy also had small parts in music videos, ranging from Clear Static, to the Lost Prophets. In 2007, Mandy starred in Escape The Fate's Not Good Enough For The Truth In Cliche from their Dying Is Your Latest Fashion cd.
Notable resident of Norwalk Ca.
Was city's 8th resident to ever be involved in a Major League Baseball draft in 1988.
Was chosen 23rd in first round draft by Texas Rangers for a right field position.
Played a total of two games for Texas Rangers minor league team Bakersfield Blaze during 1990 season in which he was
3 for 7 with two runs batted in.
Ended career in 1990 never making Texas Rangers rotation.
Held RBI record for Santa Fe High School season play until 1998.
Played Little League Baseball in the city of Santa Fe Springs with Metropolitan Little League for 5 Yrs becoming one of the leagues
most productive players to date according to scouting records held by the Texas Rangers organization.
Was city's 8th resident to ever be involved in a Major League Baseball draft in 1988.
Was chosen 23rd in first round draft by Texas Rangers for a right field position.
Played a total of two games for Texas Rangers minor league team Bakersfield Blaze during 1990 season in which he was
3 for 7 with two runs batted in.
Ended career in 1990 never making Texas Rangers rotation.
Held RBI record for Santa Fe High School season play until 1998.
Played Little League Baseball in the city of Santa Fe Springs with Metropolitan Little League for 5 Yrs becoming one of the leagues
most productive players to date according to scouting records held by the Texas Rangers organization.
Dragonbait (also referred to as Champion) is a finhead saurial paladin most likely in the service Tyr. He first appears in Azure Bonds by Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb.
Appearance
Dragonbait stands roughly five feet in height, not counting the troglodyte-like head fin, though that is only in consequence to his posture, being canted forward at the hips, and balanced by a tail near long as his torso. His mouth is thinner and more rounded than the lizard-men of Faerun, lipless to show sharp teeth to the fore and rounded molars to the rear. His scales are small and smooth, like beadwork. On his chest was a ring of symbols identical to those originally sported by Alias on her arm, which resolved themselves into a ring of blue ivy at the end of the events of Azure Bonds.
Biography
Dragonbait received his current name the night he assisted Alias in disposing of some thugs in the service of her creators. Alias warned him that if he made a single false move, he'd be dragon bait. He immediately took it as his name, and is only referred to as Champion by Grypht (and presumably, therefore, other saurials).
Dragonbait's near refutal of his previous name may have originated in the circumstances that brought him into the power of the creators of Alias.
He had served Tyr single-mindedly, and had fallen in love with another saurial, who served Lady Luck (likely Tymora, or possibly her other incarnation of Tyche). Believing that Luck's fickle nature was in violation of the rigorous justice of Tyr, he demanded that his love leave her goddess' service and come to serve his god. The argument ended with no resolution, and apparently fearing his love for her would eventually taint his pure service to his god, he left for Tarterus to serve his god.
There, he was captured by a fiend (likely Phalse, though that is never confirmed) to be used for a dark purpose. While imprisoned, he had a vision, or perhaps only a dream, in which he was visited by Lady Luck. He was told that she would rather not see him ever again, but that her aid had been asked by the god of justice to save his servant. Wishing to live and not offend his god who had intervened on his behalf, he accepted the task she charged him with: to fulfill the service laid on him by the human sent to him.
Freed from his imprisonment by the Nameless Bard, Dragonbait became Alias' companion. He lives always to serve Tyr, but now he also pays homage to all other gods who can further the cause of justice.
As he can not speak human tongues, after aiding Alias in destroying her evil creators, she taught him the thieves' hand cant, a fact that thoroughly irritated Olive when she learned of it. In the third book, Alias used the finder's stone to cast a permanent tongues spell on herself, enabling her to speak Dragonbait's own tongue, which is a combination of clicks and whistles pitched outside normal human hearing, and scents.
Dragonbait frequently refers to Alias as his sister, something that has been borne out as being true from the gods' point of view when Alias becomes a soul singer, a saurial gift that apparently follows genealogical lines.
Following the events of Song of the Saurials Dragonbait and Alias apparently settled in the Lost Vale with the displaced saurials to aid them in their new settlement. A short time later, however, they are adventuring again.
Appearance
Dragonbait stands roughly five feet in height, not counting the troglodyte-like head fin, though that is only in consequence to his posture, being canted forward at the hips, and balanced by a tail near long as his torso. His mouth is thinner and more rounded than the lizard-men of Faerun, lipless to show sharp teeth to the fore and rounded molars to the rear. His scales are small and smooth, like beadwork. On his chest was a ring of symbols identical to those originally sported by Alias on her arm, which resolved themselves into a ring of blue ivy at the end of the events of Azure Bonds.
Biography
Dragonbait received his current name the night he assisted Alias in disposing of some thugs in the service of her creators. Alias warned him that if he made a single false move, he'd be dragon bait. He immediately took it as his name, and is only referred to as Champion by Grypht (and presumably, therefore, other saurials).
Dragonbait's near refutal of his previous name may have originated in the circumstances that brought him into the power of the creators of Alias.
He had served Tyr single-mindedly, and had fallen in love with another saurial, who served Lady Luck (likely Tymora, or possibly her other incarnation of Tyche). Believing that Luck's fickle nature was in violation of the rigorous justice of Tyr, he demanded that his love leave her goddess' service and come to serve his god. The argument ended with no resolution, and apparently fearing his love for her would eventually taint his pure service to his god, he left for Tarterus to serve his god.
There, he was captured by a fiend (likely Phalse, though that is never confirmed) to be used for a dark purpose. While imprisoned, he had a vision, or perhaps only a dream, in which he was visited by Lady Luck. He was told that she would rather not see him ever again, but that her aid had been asked by the god of justice to save his servant. Wishing to live and not offend his god who had intervened on his behalf, he accepted the task she charged him with: to fulfill the service laid on him by the human sent to him.
Freed from his imprisonment by the Nameless Bard, Dragonbait became Alias' companion. He lives always to serve Tyr, but now he also pays homage to all other gods who can further the cause of justice.
As he can not speak human tongues, after aiding Alias in destroying her evil creators, she taught him the thieves' hand cant, a fact that thoroughly irritated Olive when she learned of it. In the third book, Alias used the finder's stone to cast a permanent tongues spell on herself, enabling her to speak Dragonbait's own tongue, which is a combination of clicks and whistles pitched outside normal human hearing, and scents.
Dragonbait frequently refers to Alias as his sister, something that has been borne out as being true from the gods' point of view when Alias becomes a soul singer, a saurial gift that apparently follows genealogical lines.
Following the events of Song of the Saurials Dragonbait and Alias apparently settled in the Lost Vale with the displaced saurials to aid them in their new settlement. A short time later, however, they are adventuring again.