media convergence

Anna Everett is a Professor and Chair of the Film and Media Studies department at UC Santa Barbara. She works in the fields of film and TV history/theory, African-American film and culture, and Digital Media Technologies.

In this talk, Dr. Mayer-Patel explores some of the barriers to media convergence and characterize when and why convergence can be successful and when and why convergence is likely to fail. In doing so, he articulates a new model for thinking about the future of multimedia which he calls "confederated media".