Media Convergence (The Relationship Between on-line Content Creation and Type of TV Viewing)

Rising of new media has developed a new era of media convergence. According to the “convergence culture”, new media is participatory media that users are content creator and participant. It seems change the culture of media consumption. The new type of TV use has created new TV audience that is multi-platform, participant, and active. This study followed the impact of the Internet on the TV in the age of convergence in relation to internet content production with a new type of TV use.Using surveys in Tehran, these results were obtained: 65 percent of citizens are on-line content creator. The new type of watching television is influential among the audience. Also based on hypothesis testing, on-line content creation has a direct relation with multi-platform use, participation, and being active audience. This relationship represents unit convergence culture in the media. Internet has affected the television, not in decreasing its popularity; But in more interaction between traditional and new media.