Media Convergence Paper

January was the Month of Exams for the first semester, and as such, I turned in two papers. One was an insignificant Culture and Communication Theory paper of 7 pages that would either be passed or failed, the other was an important 15-page Media History paper which was to be graded on the 13-scale (apparently we switch to the new 12-scale this summer) and will actually show up on my final graduation papers.

I spent one evening writing the C&CT paper, whereas I took a whole week off from work to study intensively and write the Media History paper. Obviously the important one got an only slightly above-average grade (9, if you must know), whereas my C&CT paper generated a surprisingly excited reply from my teacher. Typical, eh?

I suspect it was just that he hadn’t read much about media convergence (the subject of my paper) before, but it can’t be half-bad if it managed to get him interested in the subject. Thus, I’ve put it on the FTP for you to read. But I’ll warn you in advance: It was written in Danish and I’m not sufficiently proud of it to translate it, so if you can’t read Danish, don’t bother. Otherwise, here’s a quick 7-page overview of some things that have been written about the phenomenon of media convergence