ABSTRACT

As convergence leaves its mark on this century, the ultimate alibi in the convergence rhetoric seems to be the mobile device. Convergence can occur across various levels such as technological, economic, industrial and cultural. As Jenkins (2005) observed, in the growth of the mobile phone into converging various forms of multimedia – into the ambiguous and yet ubiquitous mobile media – one could almost forget that mobile media arose from an extension of the landline telephony.