While reading the beginning of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Henry Jenkins touches on the the concepts of convergence culture. The author also goes into length about comparing our modern mediums (like technology and media) to those of the past as well as how consumers of today are act differently than fifty years ago. Near the very beginning of the text, Jenkins states that that "Each of us constructs our own personal mythology from bits and fragments of information extracted from the media flow and transformed into resources through which we make sense of our everyday lives" (Jenkins 3). With so much media entering our brains today, it is easy to get caught up with the latest information on a subject. People who have grown up within the last twenty years have been accustomed to receiving information through many outlets of media rather than just word of mouth.
The previous quote is linked to Weinberger's view of the web and it's invention of implicit meanings people use to make sense of the world. On page 107 Jenkins stated that "The meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world (Jenkins 107)". That being said, I think we need to realize just how much technology is shaping our view of the world. It's possible that fifty years down the road we might trust technology and the information it feeds us over our own intuitions.
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