by Jean Burgess

About Jean Burgess

Jean Burgess (@jeanburgess) is Professor of Digital Media and Director of the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at Queensland University of Technology. Her research focuses on the uses, cultures, and politics of social and mobile media platforms.

Convergence

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Convergence is a dynamic of change. In the most neutral and general sense, it describes the tendency for separate streams or pathways (whether of matter, of technologies, or of biological life) to come together. Its complement is divergence—the tendency for these same paths and streams to branch, fork, and drift apart.