Blog Posting 1 Quarter 3 Week 1

a. Title of Article: 
Convergence culture and Disney: What does this mean for kids?

b. APA Citation: 
Convergence culture and Disney: What does this mean for kids? (2010, May 5). Retrieved January 9, 2015, from https://com530.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/convergence-culture-and-disney-what-does-this-mean-for-kids/

c. Source Summary: 
This author aims to apply his own experiences to communicate to the viewer a much larger view of the recent events in Disney media convergence and its link to show on the Disney Channel.
The view is mostly biased as he is applying his experience/observation to a much broader topic.

d. Important Quotes: 
1. "No longer was Disney Channel just isolated in a box that I chose to turn on and off at my leisure. Now it was connected to something much larger, the Internet."  

2."As a child, I didn’t visit Web sites or read blogs “written” by the characters of popular shows.  So no matter how excited I was about a show, that excitement ended when the show was over."

e. Analysis:
As I was growing up, the shows I watched and the characters I loved to see on screen started appearing on the internet, when I couldn't see a show on the Disney Channel I would go online and watch full episodes for free. This availability and convergence of the TV Broadcasting world and the online world was fairly new. In the shows I watched, media wasn't a huge thing, of course, the only time I can recall ever hearing of new technology was when Maddy on the Suite Life of Zack and Cody got her new camera flip phone... Now shows like "Dog With a Blog" literally feature a Dog... with a blog. Media has wriggled is way into TV shows where previously it wouldn't have been present.

By interacting with media and linking that media to a show children start to believe that their favorite disney characters are real people. Who could blame them? Some of these stars have interactive blogs. This makes it hard for children to differentiate real people from actors and eventually other things on TV will become real instead of staying in their fictional place. This convergence is not only present on children's show but also shows like Pawn Stars on the history channel where viewers can vote on questions in real time. How far will cable go to gain views and keep views?