Cyber social networking is helping to fuel the current Iranian protest against recent election results. But with Iran’s government trying to stem the opposition’s mobilization by actively removing opposition Web sites and attempting to slow down social networking portals such as Facebook and Twitter, the world is being deprived of information concerning this major political movement. Iranian censorship of the Internet is not unique. The Chinese government tried to shut down dissidents’ online use at the time of Tiananmen. Other nations face such roadblocks to cyber information. This issue of The Convergence Newsletter offers two articles examining problems of Internet access in Ethiopia. We also present a study focusing on India’s use of media, examining how and where convergence in that country takes place.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
February 2009: Goodbye Convergence, Hello 'Webvergence': The Decline of Broadcast-Print Partnerships in an Increasingly Online Media World
In the early days of convergence, the newsroom of the future was envisioned: all manner of media platforms – newspaper and television, mostly – sharing information, staff, and resources all under the same roof.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
March 2008: How Television Stations are "Broadcasting" Their News to Your Pocket
As technologies like text messaging and e-mail continue to gain prevalence in our society, many in the world of traditional media are seeking ways to capitalize on these new delivery formats to provide their customers with content.
Dr. Tim Brown of the University of Central Florida discusses research that has delved into the question of how local television stations are taking advantage of these new-media options.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
February 2008: The Problem with Broadcast News on the Web
While it's true that many TV networks are making the most of the Web to offer interactive, multimedia content for their audiences, not all are.
For our February issue, Sid Bedingfied draws upon his experiences as former head of CNN's U.S. network and current visiting professor at the University of South Carolina in examining how some TV entities -- notably, local affiliates -- are falling woefully behind in the push toward rich online content.
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February 2008: Book Review -- "Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World”
One question that has weighed on the minds of many journalism educators recently is: "How can we give our students the tools they need to get by in the world of converged media?"
Authors Deb Wenger and Deborah Potter propose some answers in their new text "Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World.”
In his review, Dr. George Daniels of the University of Alabama gives the book high marks. Though the book is written from the perspective of former broadcast journalists, Dr. Daniels notes that both broadcast and newspaper educators are sure to find the text helpful.
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Monday, November 12, 2007
November 2007: Filling a Local Multimedia Void
Dr. Dennis Jeffers, of Central Michigan University, gave what was (at least in this humble editor's opinion) one of the more fascinating presentations as he discussed two newspapers that have taken advantage of a local television void by offering "newscasts" of their own on their Web sites. Could this be the future of local news coverage? Who needs a local network TV affiliate when you have a newspaper, a camera and a Web page?
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November 2007: Teach Them TV
USC's own Harvie Nachlinger brought all of us convergence crazies back down to earth a bit with his presentation "Teach Them TV," in which he stressed that television news producers in most cases continue to do things the "old-fashioned" way, so we may not want to be too overzealous in our teaching of "convergence," in all its shapes and forms, to the TV journalists of tomorrow.
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