It’s official: The Shield, The Edge, and Access USI are coming together. All it took was a new media revolution. The student newspaper (Shield), the student-run radio station (Edge), and the student TV station (Access) at the University of Southern Indiana are converging on-the-go this semester, presenting a pair of new multiplatform projects while figuring out what works best and what convergence actually means.
According to David Black, a USI broadcast professor and Access adviser:
The whole idea of convergence is a very sort of nebulous, difficult concept. We are still trying to get our hands around it, and it will take a few more years to figure out what to do with it.
An example of what they’re doing with it at USI: A recent combined interview with the university president appeared as a front-page piece in the paper, a TV news clip, and a half-hour radio broadcast.
Con•ver•gence (n.): student media, coming together. See also quality journalism.
