I'm diving into mass media for Spring semester 2010 at Metropolitan State College of Denver. I'll take a critical look at as many types of mass media as I can and write about them here. This is for my JRN 1010 project.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Convergence Media at my favorite bar!

     I just finished writing a paper on my favorite gay bar, the Denver Wrangler-- specifically "Sweet", a monthly dance party, for my media writing class.  In doing so, I realized how convergent this bar is so I thought I would write about it a bit here in the 'ole media journal/ blog. Okay, so there are 16 screens in the bar.  Five of those screens are dedicated to 'Wrangler TV'.  I've attached a pic above for you to see.
     Anyway, Wrangler TV has everything we talked about in class....  Links to social media sites, money-generating advertisers, live real-time weather, links to the Denver Wrangler Web site, interactive photo galleries, drink specials, music features, etc.
     I did a little more research to see how my favorite bar was taking advantage of convergence media.  Turns out, they have a facebook page, twitter,  and youtube.
     I then took a look at Denver Eagle (competing bar)'s Web site.  They too use social media.
Pretty cool, huh?

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