We interviewed Eric Patrick, an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University's RTVF department. On top of that, he is "an independent filmmaker, freelance animator, Guggenheim fellow, musician, and educator." He also worked as a commercial animator, most notably for the Nickelodeon tv children's program "Blue's Clues."
This past winter quarter (2009), Patrick offered "what he believes to be the first academic course on viral videos." These undergraduate RTVF majors had to produce weekly videos, keeping in mind that they would want to make at least one go viral. This class was featured in Northwestern's NewsCenter. Be sure to check it out.
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/03/viralvideo.html
Questions asked in this part of the interview:
1) Do you think that messages become altered or filtered through different communication platforms? If yes, how?
2) Why do you think it's important for us to know and understand this phenomenon of media convergence?
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