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New Media majors apply cutting-edge design + computing to make animations, digital storytelling, games, music, physical computing, video, and web/mobile apps

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Need free #OnlineLearning resources? Here's our 100 interactive tutorials from woodworking to webmaking. Students watch videos, pass embedded quizzes, and earn digital badges 🏅 that serve as microcredentials for the course and future employers #edtech tutorials.NMDprojects.net

nmdnet's tweet image. Need free #OnlineLearning resources? Here's our 100 interactive tutorials from woodworking to webmaking. Students watch videos, pass embedded quizzes, and earn digital badges 🏅 that serve as microcredentials for the course and future employers #edtech tutorials.NMDprojects.net

Congratulations to New Media's Parker Gray, Katie Fletcher, and Nathan and Ryan Mendes on their acceptance into the 2025 Student Symposium, with projects ranging from social and political campaigns to enigmatic tales of Maine lighthouses!

nmdnet's tweet image. Congratulations  to New Media's Parker Gray, Katie Fletcher, and Nathan and Ryan Mendes on their acceptance into the 2025 Student Symposium, with projects  ranging from social and political campaigns to enigmatic tales of Maine lighthouses!

UMaine New Media reposted

I found this presentation by @jonippolito at last week's Maine Town Meeting fascinating [and enlightening]- as did the audience. AI fakery isn't the only way AI can interfere with applied democracy- it's not even the most likely way. It'll probably be more subtle. See his🧵⬇️

Deep-faked images often make headlines, but AI’s threat to elections goes deeper. As demonstrated in this recording of last week's talk "Bots, Ballots, and You," generative AI tools arm saboteurs with more subtle ways to destabilize democracy blog.still-water.net/ai-threat-to-e… 1/3 🐘♻️

jonippolito's tweet image. Deep-faked images often make headlines, but AI’s threat to elections goes deeper. As demonstrated in this recording of last week's talk "Bots, Ballots, and You," generative AI tools arm saboteurs with more subtle ways to destabilize democracy blog.still-water.net/ai-threat-to-e… 1/3 🐘♻️


Understanding the history of new media helps prepare us for their future.

At yesterday's AI town hall @MichaelSocolow argued that new media have always disrupted politics, from the penny press/telegraph to radio/TV. Now that social media have prioritized confirmation bias over persuasion, will voters be less likely to question AI-generated fakery?

jonippolito's tweet image. At yesterday's AI town hall @MichaelSocolow  argued that new media have always disrupted politics, from the penny press/telegraph to radio/TV. Now that social media have prioritized confirmation bias over persuasion, will voters be less likely to question AI-generated fakery?


Faculty from our New Media program and UMaine's Journalism department tackle the important question of how to prevent AI-created disinformation from derailing the upcoming elections in this "AI Town Hall"

With AI reshaping the contours of political discourse, veteran journalist and media historian @michaelsocolow and I lead the 2024 Maine Town Meeting on AI's influence in a crucial election year. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center hosts this Friday. 🐘♻️docs.google.com/forms/d/1Kyin5…

jonippolito's tweet image. With AI reshaping the contours of political discourse, veteran journalist and media historian @michaelsocolow and I lead the 2024 Maine Town Meeting on AI's influence in a crucial election year. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center hosts this Friday. 🐘♻️docs.google.com/forms/d/1Kyin5…


We are very excited to have Christiane Paul, arguably the world's foremost expert on digital art, talking to our faculty and students today about the impact of AI in creative people!

I was a Guggenheim media curator for 15 years, and I still find it easier to name all the digital art exhibitions NOT curated by Christiane Paul than keep track of all of hers. So excited to join her in conversation about AI art Tuesday at 4:30pm EDT blog.still-water.net/digital-curati… 🐘♻️

jonippolito's tweet image. I was a Guggenheim media curator for 15 years, and I still find it easier to name all the digital art exhibitions NOT curated by Christiane Paul than keep track of all of hers. So excited to join her in conversation about AI art Tuesday at 4:30pm EDT blog.still-water.net/digital-curati… 🐘♻️


UMaine New Media reposted

Sure, you tried using generative AI to create an email and maybe even a picture of a corgi with a sombrero. But in this talk @nmdjohn reveals the disruptive—and potentially democratizing—impact AI is having on 3d modeling, animation, games, and XR nmdprojects.net/teleconference…

jonippolito's tweet image. Sure, you tried using generative AI to create an email and maybe even a picture of a corgi with a sombrero. But in this talk @nmdjohn reveals the disruptive—and potentially democratizing—impact AI is having on 3d modeling, animation, games, and XR nmdprojects.net/teleconference…

UMaine New Media reposted

UMaine New Media + Computer Science just wrapped a 4-month experiment comparing AI with traditional digital methods in creative tasks. From essay writing to game design, 50 of my students tested AI's capabilities head-to-head with conventional tools blog.still-water.net/ai-versus-old-… 🧵1/7

jonippolito's tweet image. UMaine New Media + Computer Science just wrapped a 4-month experiment comparing AI with traditional digital methods in creative tasks. From essay writing to game design, 50 of my students tested AI's capabilities head-to-head with conventional tools blog.still-water.net/ai-versus-old-… 🧵1/7

UMaine New Media reposted

* Can AI models be tricked into bad behavior? * Will generative AI plateau? * Can deepfakes be stopped? * Why the deformed hands? An entertaining Q&A with AI artist @e_salvaggio is now online in an interactive recording at: nmdprojects.net/teleconference… HT @nmdnet

jonippolito's tweet image. * Can AI models be tricked into bad behavior?
* Will generative AI plateau?
* Can deepfakes be stopped?
* Why the deformed hands?

An entertaining Q&A with AI artist @e_salvaggio is now online in an interactive recording at: 

nmdprojects.net/teleconference…

HT @nmdnet

Our faculty in the news

Can TikTok help movie producers reach audiences faster with timely content like climate-related stories? I’m quoted today in Wired’s "TikTok Is the New TV" by @byamandahoover: wired.com/story/tiktok-n… #TikTok #Television #TV #Climate #Hollywood

jonippolito's tweet image. Can TikTok help movie producers reach audiences faster with timely content like climate-related stories? I’m quoted today in Wired’s "TikTok Is the New TV" by @byamandahoover:

wired.com/story/tiktok-n…

#TikTok #Television #TV #Climate #Hollywood


Need help safeguarding your data for the future? Our faculty have you covered #WDPD2023

Happy World Digital Preservation Day! I'm lucky to be one of the teachers again for @DigitCurator 's online #DigitalPreservation course starting 1/26. We cover nuts-and-bolts like checksums and emulation as well as preserving history in DNA or folk stories DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu

jonippolito's tweet image. Happy World Digital Preservation Day! I'm lucky to be one of the teachers again for @DigitCurator 's online #DigitalPreservation course starting 1/26. We cover nuts-and-bolts like checksums and emulation as well as preserving history in DNA or folk stories DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu


🎥Would you like $50,000 to make a short film celebrating the outdoors, with cool residencies in SXSW and Maine? We've posted an extraordinary opportunity to our NMD Alumni Slack. Contact us for more info!


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UMaine New Media reposted

Please share! We're excited about this exceptional opportunity to bring a passion for creative research to an interdisciplinary faculty. (The setting's pretty beautiful as well)

📣We're hiring a tenure-track professor of New Media with a creative specialty such as #UXdesign #AR or computational media. AI experience/interest a plus. Learn about our one-of-a-kind program at umaine.edu/newmedia/nmd-h… #AcademicTwitter @GoUMaine @UMaineOnline #AIinEducation

nmdnet's tweet image. 📣We're hiring a tenure-track professor of New Media with a creative specialty such as #UXdesign #AR or computational media. AI experience/interest a plus. Learn about our one-of-a-kind program at umaine.edu/newmedia/nmd-h… #AcademicTwitter @GoUMaine @UMaineOnline #AIinEducation


📣We're hiring a tenure-track professor of New Media with a creative specialty such as #UXdesign #AR or computational media. AI experience/interest a plus. Learn about our one-of-a-kind program at umaine.edu/newmedia/nmd-h… #AcademicTwitter @GoUMaine @UMaineOnline #AIinEducation

nmdnet's tweet image. 📣We're hiring a tenure-track professor of New Media with a creative specialty such as #UXdesign #AR or computational media. AI experience/interest a plus. Learn about our one-of-a-kind program at umaine.edu/newmedia/nmd-h… #AcademicTwitter @GoUMaine @UMaineOnline #AIinEducation

New Media’s Learning With AI partnership is navigating the ethical and creative challenges brought by AI advancements. Discover our unique framework for ethical ChatGPT use and innovative assignments that pair humans with AI—now with over 300 entries. blog.still-water.net/the-future-of-…

nmdnet's tweet image. New Media’s Learning With AI partnership is navigating the ethical and creative challenges brought by AI advancements. Discover our unique framework for ethical ChatGPT use and innovative assignments that pair humans with AI—now with over 300 entries. blog.still-water.net/the-future-of-…

One of our alumni has posted a really exciting job opportunity working with online games in our dedicated Slack channel. If you're a New Media alum and haven't joined, DM us and we'll share the details!


UMaine New Media reposted

After giving a spate of talks in the past year about generative AI, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's free-form discussion. Will be a good opportunity to take the temperature of student and faculty attitudes toward the post-ChatGPT classroom 🌡️ library.umaine.edu/event/the-salo…


📣 #DigitalHumanities alert 📣 #DigitalCuration #Job as Digital Humanities Librarian at University of Kansas digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2… #dh


Wondering how to integrate AI into your classes or workplace this fall? We now have over 200 resources and strategies freely accessible in our Learning With AI toolkit 🧰 LearnWithAI.org #HigherEd #HigherEducation @GoUMaine #AIinEducation #ChatGPT #STEMEducation

nmdnet's tweet image. Wondering how to integrate AI into your classes or workplace this fall? We now have over 200 resources and strategies freely accessible in our Learning With AI toolkit 🧰

LearnWithAI.org

#HigherEd #HigherEducation @GoUMaine #AIinEducation #ChatGPT #STEMEducation

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