Entangled Ecologies, a NEH-funded augmented reality project by New Media’s Joline Blais and Dartmouth’s John Bell, enriches any visit to New Hampshire’s Shaker Forest with a rich blend of historical and ecological research.
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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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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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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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How will education adapt to a landscape transformed by generative AI, where ChatGPT can write a term paper or coding assignment in a matter of seconds and Midjourney can create digital images from a phrase like “vintage photo of Amazon rainforest” or “self-portrait in the style of van Gogh”?
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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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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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StillWater Ripple Organizations working to make a better world may soon get help from students with design and technical skills, thanks to a new initiative from Still Water, a lab at the University of Maine dedicated to studying and building creative networks, Crises like climate change and the pandemic require smart and creative people, yet […]
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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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UMaine’s free New Media webinars continue this year, starting on December 6th with a hands-on workshop on coding a website that looks great on both big desktop screens and smaller mobile devices.
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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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A New Media teaching assistant and professor team up to make programming more appealing to women, minorities, and other underrepresented groups in Inclusive Techniques for Teaching Code. This presentation for teachers in the US northeast is part of Project Login’s first-ever CS Summer of Fun in conjunction with the Code.org CS Summer Institute.
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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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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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Is the US government right to outlaw TikTok because it might share data with a foreign power, or is the security threat overstated? News outlets interviewed New Media faculty to get a different take on a proposed ban on the popular social media app.
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Organizations working to make a better world may soon get help from students with design and technical skills, thanks to a new initiative from Still Water, a lab at the University of Maine dedicated to studying and building creative networks,
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Knowing how to make mobile apps in 2020 is like knowing how to make a website in 2000: a skill much in demand but known by few. Now anyone hoping to learn to create apps for iOS or Android can take advantage of a free suite of interactive tutorials from the University of Maine’s New […]
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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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Consumers are increasingly eager to eat local produce, but farm-to-table options in the cold season aren’t always easy to find in a northern state like Maine. That could change thanks to a new mobile app designed to help farmers optimize greenhouse conditions in the winter months, from a team led by New Media faculty and […]
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COVID-19 came suddenly and with a wallop, forcing classes to operate remotely, canceling sports events, and leaving campuses empty last spring. Fortunately, New Media faculty and students have already been experimenting with digital tools for collaboration, like e-portfolios, web-based F2F classes, videoconferencing and discussion platforms like Slack.
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