Analysing problems and providing solutions
Before you begin …
Check students’ understanding of
convergence
. Ask for some examples from
the class of technologies which have converged successfully (for example mobile
phones have converged with cameras, GSM devices and portable music players,
among many other things), those which have not yet converged successfully, but
which still might, and those which will probably never converge.
3 a
Students discuss the questions in pairs and then feed back to the class.
Answer
New media are any kinds of media that can only be created or used with the help
of a computer.
b
Students work in pairs to categorise the examples.
Extension activity: new or old media?
Discuss with the class any borderline cases. Has email become so universal that
it is no longer new? Are the online versions of newspapers and magazines old or
new media?
c
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