Posts Tagged ‘convergence’
Psych’s #HashTagKiller game
While in some cases “interactive media are catalysts for a power shift away from traditional communications firms,” but the production team in charge of the USA show Psych have found a way to use interactive social media to their advantage, sparking hope of more cool media crossovers to come in the future (236). The show’s [...]
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Tags: #HashTagKiller, convergence, new media, Psych, TV, Twitter, USA
First there was the water cycle. Water from the oceans evaporate into the atmosphere. The water returns to the earth with a vengeance as precipication. Running off into ground-water and above-ground streams, the water finds its way back to the ocean. Now, we would remiss not to welcome the occurrence of another such cycle: the [...]
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Tags: convergence, CSI, film, games, media, Smurfs, TV, Ubisoft, water cycle
BBC cuts… -_-
Several of my colleagues have often referred to themselves as being “casualties to the media”. They are past sport writers and broadcasters. Chapter five of “Media Work” really drives this underlying theme home, as it highlights major trends in journalism. The following article, “BBC cuts: regional journalists critise news cief over “grow up’ comment”, provides an [...]
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Tags: BBC, budget cuts, convergence
Citizen Journalism
Over the last few years there has been an evident increase in “the role of the customer as the co-creater of the media message” in the field of journalism. (Media Work, 75) News media outlets have used user-generated accounts of events to bring the news to the public. In this sense the public, who are [...]
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Tags: 9/11, convergence, convergence culture, iReport, Sade Oshinubi
