digital media in academia
The term "digital media" is real contested in American academic circles. I doubt that there are very many Radio/Television folk (esp. the TVers) who think/feel that they are doing anything BUT digital media. And many of the journalists are not far behind. So most of the folks in "mass media" probably feel as though they are in digital media. Someone shifted the question about digital media to answers about internet studies. I know that this is an internet researchers list . . . but I suspect that few in COM/Mass media departments in America would even think about internet studies as being at the center of digital media, let alone constrain digital media to internet orientations. There are a few of us in programs targeted toward new media/multimedia . . . but again, we are a very small number at the undergraduate level. And of course, "digital media" encompasses (to name only a few) LOTS of folks in "interactive" computer science, engineering, and Art programs (esp. at graduate levels). In short, I don't think it's possible to accurately categorize "digital media" programs or classes without producing a list almost as long as (virtually) all of the schools in the country with COM/ART/CS/ENGIN program. The studies are very interdisciplinary. Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center Associate Professor, Speech Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/
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Ed Lamoureux