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Can we trust AI in the classroom?
New Media’s Learning With AI partnership with Computer Science and other campus units continues to explore new creative and ethical questions posed by the rapid rise of AI. Its recommendations include a framework for deciding when it’s OK to use ChatGPT and a novel approach to assigning a term paper.
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AI Enables New Lens on Acting History
New Media alumnus John Bell has won a Mellon grant to reveal how acting styles have progressed through AI analysis of classic films and TV, while some of his fellow alumni have gained attention for their novel approaches to creating imagery.
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Innovative museum celebrates the wild blueberry
Cherished for its myriad health benefits and cultivated by both Native and Maine farmers, the wild blueberry is an unequaled superfood. A team led by Joline Blais, New Media professor and president of the Wild Blueberry Heritage Center, has launched a first-of-its-kind museum to celebrate this distinct fruit and its growers.
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NFT, TikTok vulnerabilities at heart of New Media research
In 2022 New Media faculty probed the strengths and weaknesses of NFTs and TikTok, two of the biggest digital trends in recent years. Their research was cited in Wired, Forbes, and The New York Observer and presented in conferences in New York, London, Instanbul, and Shanghai.
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Building a trustworthy web
The Internet has recently been blamed for undermining democracy, eroding trust in facts, and stoking partition divides. A conference organized by New Media and Digital Curation examines a proposal to rekindle faith in a safe and trustworthy web.
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UMaine study suggests pandemic has spurred digital curation jobs
Even during an economic downturn, digital curation openings surged 61% from 2019 to 2021, according to a recent study conducted by UMaine’s Digital Curation faculty. One cause may be the pandemic’s effect on institutions that depend on public outreach and access, which have increasingly turned to new techniques for engaging their audiences over the Internet.
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Teleconference Examines How Evidence Has Changed in the Digital Era
Legal evidence, like other forms of information, has become increasingly electronic. Shelley Lightburn of the International Court of Justice examines how the digital revolution is impacting the judicial process in the latest teleconference in UMaine’s Digital Curation program.
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New Media faculty decode the meteoric rise of NFT art
Recent headlines about digital art selling for millions of dollars are evidence the rise of NFTs has shaken the art world. In a series of public talks and workshops, New Media faculty show how NFTs work and how to separate their promise from the hype.
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Seniors mount New Media exhibitions in virtual space
From a web-based gallery of videos, to a virtual opening surrounded by 3d mountains, to an afterparty conversation around a digital campfire, this year’s New Media seniors found unusual ways to celebrate their innovative capstones with their families and classmates.
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Digital Curation program hosts free webinar with renowned preservationist
UMaine’s Digital Curation program is thrilled to host a free public webinar with “free-range archivist” Jason Scott on Wednesday 5 May at 2pm EDT as part of its regular teleconference series.
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New Media faculty train curators to make a museum app
For the 2020 Maine Archives and Museums conference on October 8th, New Media professor Jon Ippolito offers a virtual but hands-on workshop that walks curators through making an iPhone or Android app to engage visitors with their collections.
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Can artists help us design ethical technology?
How has the boundary between art and non-art shifted in the Internet age, and what does that mean for design, activism, science, and other creative activities? This question is the subject of a Dario Moalli’s fall 2019 interview with New Media faculty and Still Water co-directors Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito in the venerable periodical […]
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