week 8 abstract 5

Media convergence has been incorporated into everyday life for young people both for the educational and entertainment purposes. This article seeks to find out what methods are used and in what way, if they are effective and how they seek to replace the traditional with a new media way of thinking . new media is beneficial to those “Students fluent with digital and new media communication technologies...(whom are capable of) mixing and matching media to produce complex, multimodal, multimedia texts.” The key question still remains, what kind of literacy skills are students developing with the aid of convergence?