Newsrooms use Google Maps to improve wildfire coverage is the title of an article that covers a new kind of journalism that I haven't even heard of. Combining two different types of media to express an idea or current event is exactly what these newsrooms did. Google maps is a tool that is mostly used by people in their homes searching for directions. However, this time they were used for something that benefits a wide range of people. By using this effective tool, millions of people around the country were able to more effectively keep track of the wildfires that occurred in Southern California.
While the blog entry I recently posted with my own mad is an example of convergence journalism, it isn't quite as effective because not as many people are reading it. Either way, I am still writing and publishing an article and the public can view it. Of course, only my classmates will benefit from my post because my peers' residential locations aren't exactly a prime interest of the rest of the country.
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You've made a very good point here--no message can be effective unless there are receivers. Kind of like that old joke about a tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it... ;-)
I did not know about convergent journalism until I read this article either, but it is definitely something I want to learn more about.
I thought you had a very thorough blog entry and you effectively displayed you grasped a new concept from the article.
I too hadn't really known too much about convergent journalism, but by seeing the map of fires in Southern California it gave me a much better understanding.
I had never heard of convergent journalism either until this article! Even though you said you had never heard of it you did a great job explaining it :)
Convergent journalism was a new concept for me to. I think that you did a nice job on this assignment!
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