New Media majors apply cutting-edge design computing to make animations, digital storytelling, games, music, physical computing, video, and web/mobile apps
Joined October 2009
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13 Mar 2020
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
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13 May 2025
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!
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16 May 2024
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🧵⬇️
16 May 2024
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-thre… 1/3 🐘♻️
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11 May 2024
Understanding the history of new media helps prepare us for their future.
11 May 2024
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?
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8 May 2024
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/1Kyi…
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16 Apr 2024
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!
15 Apr 2024
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… 🐘♻️
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11 Jan 2024
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/teleconferen…
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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-vers… 🧵1/7
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UMaine New Media retweeted
15 Nov 2023
* 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/teleconferen…
HT @nmdnet
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14 Nov 2023
Our faculty in the news
14 Nov 2023
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-new-s…
#TikTok #Television #TV #Climate #Hollywood
ALT "These studios should be dipping their feet in the water just to try out what's possible," says Jon Ippolito, a professor of new media at the University of Maine. "But they also have to recognize that this is not a pond. This is a swiftly moving river, and the trends that we're seeing in social media are moving faster than the traditional model of the Hollywood studio can adapt to."
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2 Nov 2023
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
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26 Oct 2023
🎥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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8 Oct 2023
Is your degree preparing you for the future?
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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)
2 Oct 2023
📣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-hire… #AcademicTwitter @GoUMaine @UMaineOnline #AIinEducation
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2 Oct 2023
📣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-hire… #AcademicTwitter @GoUMaine @UMaineOnline #AIinEducation
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2 Oct 2023
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-fut…
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19 Sep 2023
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!
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18 Sep 2023
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…
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26 Jul 2023
📣 #DigitalHumanities alert 📣 #DigitalCuration #Job as Digital Humanities Librarian at University of Kansas digital-scholarship.org/digi… #dh
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25 Jul 2023
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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