At long last, here is the annotated video of my senior capstone presentation on reframing convergence for local journalism, given at UMass Amherst last May. Special thanks are in order to my capstone advisors, Nick McBride, Steve Fox and Peter Marvin, and to Darol Bishop of UVC-TV 19 for filming the event.

Notes and references:

Part One – Introduction (starts at 00:00:00)
00:00:58 – Illustration 1
00:01:59 – The People Formerly Known as the Audience, by Jay Rosen

Part Two – The converged media network (starts at 00:03:35)
00:06:38 – Networked link journalism: A revolution quietly begins in Washington state
00:07:40 – Convergence in action
00:09:06 – Professor Steve Fox (@stevejfox) speaking
00:09:24 – UMass Student Media Summit
00:11:41 – Professor BJ Roche (@BJ_Roche) speaking
00:12:44 – Ralph Whitehead speaking
00:15:13 – Rosie Walunas speaking

Part Three – The converged community (starts at 00:19:33)
00:25:25 – Framework for reinventing classifieds
00:27:32 – Twitter Used by J-Students to Track Handicapped Spots (correction: the students used laptops, not cell phones)
00:27:53 – Spot.us’ We Hella Hate Potholes Bike Event (correction: the event took place in Oakland, not San Francisco)
00:29:29 – Professor Martha Fuentes-Bautista speaking; Ushahidi
00:31:33 – Professor Nick McBride speaking

Discussion (starts at 00:33:08)
00:34:45 – Evolution of the Voice It! project
00:36:38 – Global Beat Blog on the Amherst Wire
00:52:02 – Illustration 2
00:58:40 – Professor Dennis Vandal (@dennisvandal) speaking
01:03:52 – Applying the link economy to j-school