Critics about the Convergence Culture

Vigilance Systems

The first critic corresponds to the vigilance systems architected when digital technology was reaching its role as capitalism main character. During the 1980s, in the beginning of information digitalization project, Schiller alerts about the complexity of this question and the possible reorganization of the living standards – that come to reality -, after the combination of consolidated sections, like the economical, until the emergent like nanotechnology and biotechnology. Meanwhile, Schiller considers that a kind of informational manipulation could be designed, once “the architects of digital capitalism had a main goal in mind: to create a large economic network that would support the increasing projects happening inside the companies and the relationship among them” (Schiller, 2001, p. 21). Digital arrives to consumer, in the late 1990s, through “computers transmitters of audio, video, image and data signal, requiring a total change of regulation and structures of telecommunications in several countries” (Schiller, 2001, p. 21). This seductive multimedia proposal gradually becomes mediator of social life, role once performed by television.