Great news!  I received an email today from Joshua Green of MIT, confirming that he will be able to speak at this year’s inVerge conference.
Ever since I read the book Convergence Culture, written by Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Center for Comparative Media Studies, I wanted someone from that program as a speaker at this first […]

Work continues on Inverge 2007, the conference on September 6 + 7 in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. We have several compelling speakers booked–including Dalen Harrison, the CEO of Ensequence and Joshua Green, Research Manager of the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium–and a broad range of interactive convergence topics to discuss.
What is unique about this event […]

How far back does it make sense to trace invergence? I would go back to Walt Disney, who could rightfully be called the godfather of convergence because he figured out how a single narrative could be best leveraged across multiple platforms (movies, books, records, television, consumer products). When he combined it all with an amusement […]

I think many people–even those who are thought-leaders, influencers, mavericks, cultural creatives or some combination of the above–underestimate the nature and impact of the changes that have taken place over the past 5 years, in digital technology and in how we interact with that technology and with each other.
Over the past several months I have […]