The internship information has just been updated to help answer some of the most common questions. Internships are available to graduate students and early-career professionals who are affiliated with the UT-Portugal Digital Media Collaboration. The program is designed to provide hands-on work experience in the Austin digital media industry. Internships are available on a first-come, [...]
The European Commission is planning to force cell phone companies to standardize their cell phone chargers so that all phones will use the same style of charger. The goal is to cut down on the amount of waste caused by the variety of chargers currently used. Cutting down on e waste is great, but the [...]
A number of folks associated with the Digital Media Collaboration are going to be participating in SXSW. I’m going to be on a panel interrogating the question, “Are Women Taken More Seriously on the Web?,” organized by Laura Roeder of Roeder Studios.
Ivan Franco of industrial affiliate YDreams is leading a panel on “New Interfaces for [...]
Rhizome at the New Museum is accepting submissions for their commissions program through April 2. This funding opportunity should be of interest to some of the folks involved in CoLab Digital media programs. From the web site:
The goal of the Rhizome Commissions Program is to support emerging artists by providing grants for the creation of [...]
While much of the generation-based research seems more likely to produce buzzwords than to actually provide a meaningful framework for thinking about social or cultural trends, a new report from Accenture on the tech habits of Millennials (people born between 1977 and 1997) confirms a broad trend I’ve heard a number of faculty commenting on: [...]
I’m excited to announce that we officially have our first Portuguese intern. Antonio Aleixo arrived in Shreveport, LA last week and has already gotten to work in the editing department of the independent feature film Skateland. Aleixo is working under Yusef Svacina, an alumnus of the University of Texas’s Department of Radio-Television-Film. We’re looking forward [...]
I’m currently in Lisbon for the first week of the Summer Institute, and tonight, I’ll be meeting with some students interested in the internships that we’ll be offering starting this coming semester. The internship page has further information about the program.
In short, we’re working to place qualified graduate students and early-career professionals at digital [...]
Breakthrough, an organization that does human rights work in both the United States and India, has released a game, ICED (I Can End Deportation) to help players learn the ins and outs of immigration policy and rights. The game, which targets youth, is intended to teach players how unfair U.S. immigration policy is.
The game [...]
It might behoove the ACLU, or some organization devoted to civil liberties, to devote some resources to figuring out how to defend speech that is inconvenient to plaintiffs lawyers.
Sandy Szwarc of the excellent blog Junkfood Science has a lengthy and interesting post about a subpoena delivered to the author of Neurodiversity, a website (and blog) [...]
U.S. Law and Video Games
A piece of news that should be of interest to folks both in industry and in the academy: A couple weeks ago, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a law that would have limited the sales and rentals of video games to minors. The court found the California statute to be a [...]