For extra credit ...
Read story about AP style and explain what it has to do with convergence ... post your answer as a comment to this blog post. (The headnote says "extra credit," by the way, but the red letters mean something else. Remember?) How does this relate to that important trend?
I'll be very interested, by the way, to see who posts and who doesn't.
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- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
12 comments:
I believe that this article has to do a lot with convergence. The media is focusing on many different things, not just writing. We are converging into a world of various types of media such as videographers, photographers, AND writers. AP is converging from not only writers but to the above as well!
The article has everything to do with convergence. People have multimedia skills. This article talks about a text reporter, a videographer, and a photographer. Like Haley said its not all about writing anymore.
This article does have to do with convergence because the media is no longer secluding AP to just those people who write, they are now also focusing on all of the other aspects of media, Video, Photographers, and also writers. They are becoming one in this and not being seperated so they are converging all groups to make up AP
This article talks about convergence throughout it, and it states how writing is not the only way to do things now. Text reporters, photographers, and videographers along with writing are all new forms.
Convergence is the delivery of mass messages fragmented into a growing number of digital mechanisms. AP wants to show that they are not strictly publishing articles to paper but rather using various forms of media.
Convergence is the approach toward a definite value, a definite point, a common view or opinion, or toward a fixed or equilibrium state. I think it does have to do with convergence due to the deffintion above and the area that is affected. People do have multimedia skills as kb stated and like haley it is not just about writing anymore.
This article deals with convergance because it is telling us that these stories may not only belong to writers, but also a reporter, photographer, videographer, or someone else. AP is using not only writers, but also converging these other types of staff.
this a form of convergence because Ap is scraping just the writer by the article because a article is consist of photos,video and text by not just giving all the praise to the writer. by leaving just the lable of AP after the article the whole company is credited
The definition of convergence is an act or instance of converging. I believe the article it has alot to do with convergence because the media is discussing many different things and not just on writing. It talks about a reporter, photographer and a videotaper, not just a writer. Its not all about writers anymore.
Coverage from the media is no longer only in written form. AP now includes all other aspects of media communication such as a photographer or a videographer.
The article has a lot to do with convergence. It focuses on other aspects of media such as phtographers, videos, and even the text.
This article DOES talk about convergence. This process in shown through photographers, text, and even video.
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