{"59248":{"#nid":"59248","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Digital Media Program Showcases 43 Projects","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Literature, Communication, and Culture demonstrated 43 projects in its April 29th Demo Day. These included extraordinary student and faculty projects in Interactive Narrative, Tangible Media, Experimental Games, Interactive Television, and Digital Film, and from project groups including the eTV Prototyping Group, the Synaesthetic Media Lab, the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab, the Adaptive Digital Media Lab, the Public Design Workshop, the Emergent Game Group, and the Digital World and Image Group.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGraduating master\u0027s student, Daniel Upton, presented The Identity Share Project which \u0022approaches the online social network from a new angle.\u0022 The project is a web-based system that allows users to create and share a profile, to browse others\u0027 profiles, and to follow their online experiences. \u0022Users essentially gain a window in to the world through another person and are encouraged to connect with others based upon both similarities and differences.\u0022 Upton was mentored by Assistant Professor Carl DiSalvo.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022car sales waiting shouting talking exercising driving eating blasting hooky yoga scootering\u0022 \u0022 For an absolutely fresh and unique view of something absolutely fundamental to American life, check out the project Strip Mall Ethnography by Adam Rice. Rice, another of DiSalvo\u0027s master\u0027s students, offers a \u0022web-based platform for documenting, investigating, and engaging subjective, experiential and unconventional aspects of urban spaces with a focus on - Strip Malls.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Celia Pearce\u0027s students including PhD candidate Calvin Ashmore created the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) Mermaids. The game takes place in an underwater fantasy world in which players must rebuild a lost mermaid culture and help restore the environment, while at the same time avoiding the fate met by their ancestors- extinction. Visit the site to see the game project team\u0027s 3-D modeling, animations, and more.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"School of Literature, Communication, and Culture demonstrated 43 projects in its April 29th Demo Day. These included extraordinary student and faculty projects in Interactive Narrative, Tangible Media, Experimental Games, Interactive Television, and Digital Film, and from project groups including the eTV Prototyping Group, the Synaesthetic Media Lab, the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab, the Adaptive Digital Media Lab, the Public Design Workshop, the Emergent Game Group, and the Digital World and Image Group.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"LCC Demos Leading Edge Digital Media"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2009-05-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:42","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59249":{"id":"59249","type":"image","title":"tuv26012.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176221","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:01","changed":"1475894388","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190933","name":"tuv26012.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tuv26012_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tuv26012_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":60747,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tuv26012_0.jpg?itok=yFnaYDun"}}},"media_ids":["59249"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/identityshare.net\/about\/document.pdf","title":"The Identity Share Project"},{"url":"http:\/\/radrice.com\/sme\/index.php?page=sme","title":"Strip Mall Ethnography"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mermaidsgame.net\/","title":"Mermaids"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lcc.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Literature, Communication, and Culture"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"614","name":"Digital Media Spring Demo Day"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}