Digital Studies Courses – Spring 2022

DS courses must satisfy at least one of the following areas: Integrate digital media as tools for research and dissemination in traditional scholarship Examine cultural, social, ethical, or theoretical implications of new media technologies Apply digital technologies to practical applications involving problem-based learning Develop knowledge and skills in new media…

2015-2016 Fellows

  Meredith Bak Meredith researches historical and contemporary toys and children’s new media from the nineteenth century to the present. She is at work on a book manuscript examining the role of pre-cinematic optical toys in cultivating children as modern media spectators. Fellow Research: As a Digital Studies Fellow, Bak…

Fall 2018 DS Courses

…image. The course begins with a survey of the emerging field of media archaeology which attempts to understand new and emerging media through close examination of the past. New media theorist Jussi Parikka writes: “Media archaeology exists somewhere between materialist media theories and the insistence on the value of the…

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The Digital Studies Center Presents a Special Screening of Hit and Stay

Join co-director Joe Tropea for a free screening of the award-winning documentary Hit & Stay at Rutgers University-Camden in the Fine Arts Building Room 110 on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 6pm. On May 17, 1968, nine Catholic activists entered a Selective Service office in suburban Catonsville, Maryland, dragged stacks of…

Spring 2016 Digital Studies Courses

…TTH 3:00PM – 4:20 FA-217 Nash Video games are being used to tell new stories. Although classic storytelling will always form a solid underpinning for narrative in any medium, the introduction of a new axis – ‘Interactivity’ – is quickly subverting the standard paradigms of linear storytelling. This not only…