Media Convergence Presentation

An official update to the original “Shift Happens” video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.

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What Is Google Wave?

Plenty of people have asked me what is Google Wave? This video is about the best explanation I’ve seen thus far to enlighten ordinary people who aren’t soaking in social media all day long.

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Jay Smooth On The Fall of Mass Media Reductionism

Jay Smooth is the creator of the Hip-Hop Music Blog, and video blogging site IllDoctrine. In 1991, he founded what has become New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI’s Underground Railroad. Here he talks about the decline of mass media’s influence on the perception of cultures generally and on the perception of young black men, specifically.

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