Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
of Public Information
Dan Shaver
The University of Central Florida
What is Convergence?
• Delivery Channels?
• Cooperation?
• Something else?
Assumptions
• Public/Private Information Distinction
– Media Distribute Public Information
– Primary Function
• Primary Drivers of Media Industry
Structure
– Technology
– Audience Expectations and Adoption
– Regulation
Historic Channels for Public
Information Distribution
• The First Age: Interpersonal/Scribal
• The Second Age: Mass Media
• The Third Age: Converged Digital
The First Age:
Interpersonal/Scribal