How to Manage Your Loneliness April 20, 2020 New York Times The Cigna study indicated that 79 percent of those aged 18 to 22 considered themselves lonely. Among this group, heavy social media users were more likely to say they’re feeling lonely, Dr. Nemecek said, “so leveraging social media in the right way to make […]
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Digital Curation webinar focuses on saving the Web As more of our work and entertainment moves online, the challenge of preserving websites and social media becomes increasingly urgent. In an interactive discussion on 17 April 2020 entitled “Web Archiving for Everyone,” the latest guest speaker in UMaine’s Digital Curation program presents new tools and techniques […]
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Still Water Co-director Joline Blais was a coordinator for the 2019 America East Hackathon, which focused on developing inexpensive apps and systems to sustain local farmers.
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New Media capstone students have developed capstone projects reflecting and extending a range of skills learned in the program including web and mobile app development, AR and VR applications, interactive educational video, and 3D design and printing of accessibility devices. Many of our students are working with outside clients and/or field testing new software platforms. […]
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New Media alumna Margaretha Haughwout invited Still Water co-directors Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito to explore the connections between different types of code and how they can be open-sourced, digitally and biologically, in a series of talks and workshops at Colgate University in November 2018.
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