emerging media and technology

Augmented Reality in Children's Literature

Students explored new methods of storytelling in during this collaboration between the School of Emerging Media and Technology, Design Innovation and the Reinberger Library Center, creating an augmented reality experience based around children's picturebooks. 

Tags: student work , emerging media and technology , Augmented Reality , VR/AR , Interdisciplinary Projects

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Digital Custom Cake Visualizer

A team of students in EMAT"s Interdisciplinary Projects, the senior capstone course, worked on a digital custom cake visualizer for LaLa Custom Cakes in Lakewood. In Interdisciplinary Projects, students work with a community or campus client to solve a technology challenge. 

Tags: Interdisciplinary Projects , emerging media and technology , student work , Website

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Depthkit 3D Live Action Modeling

For their EMAT Interdisciplinary Projects course, a team of students Kyle Bartlett, Collin Lewis, Kaitlyn Perkovic and project leader John Comi worked with associate professor of dance Marc Rockland to render dancers as 3D models by using a technology called Depthkit. The final video was shown as part of a end of semester dance recital. 

Tags: Electronic Media , Augmented Reality , VR/AR , emerging media and technology , Interdisciplinary Projects , student work

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EMAT Faculty Wins Distinguished Teaching Award

Richard Ferdig helped create the digital sciences program, which is now the School of Emerging Media and Technology. Six years after the program was started, a graduating doctoral student gave Ferdig a hug and warm greetings. It was at that moment he realized he had that student as a freshman in their first emerging media class.  

Tags: Students First , CCI , emerging media and technology

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Hamid Estejab

Pairing Design and Data for Better Healthcare Systems

Hands-on experiences while studying healthcare design and emerging technology at Kent State created a unique, in-demand career path for 2023 graduate Hamid Estejab.

Tags: Kent State Works , emerging media and technology , Healthcare , College of Architecture and Environmental Design , Architecture and Interior Design , Design at Kent State

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EMAT Student seated, smiling

Combined Degree Program Creates Specialized Educational Experience

Kent State University’s combined bachelor’s/master’s degree program allows students to count nine credits of graduate level courses to their undergraduate degrees, providing a faster path to an advanced degree. Cassie Milicia chose this route for her degrees in Emerging Media and Technology.

Tags: Bachelor’s Degrees , Master’s Degrees , emerging media and technology

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OCWIC conference

Students Find Inspiration at Women in Tech Conference

Catherine Smith, a professor in the School of Emerging Media and Technology and School of Information, said she remembers the days of male-dominated tech conferences with so little space for women, even the restrooms were exclusive to men. 

Tags: technology , college of communication and information , emerging media and technology , Kent State College of Communication and Information

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Franklin Hall serves as home of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State.

Applications Open for New Emerging Media and Technology Graduate Program at Kent State

To meet technology needs of the world, Kent State is now accepting applications for its new graduate program in Emerging Media and Technology (EMAT), launching Fall 2022.

Tags: graduate degree , emerging media and technology , Graduate Studies , College of Communication and Information

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Ben Vrobel

Media and Esports: One Kent State Student's Journey

Esports has transformed online gaming into a spectator sport — and a 2021 report projects the industry will be worth $3.5 billion by 2025.

Tags: jargon , Esports , emerging media and technology , media and journalism , school of media and journalism , june jargon

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Abe Avnisan sets up exhibit

CCI Professor Examines Youth Incarceration, Systems of Power, Through Exhibit on Display at Design Innovation Hub

Assistant Professor Abraham Avnisan is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is found at the intersection of image, text and code, often centering on culture and justice. His latest artistic development examines the incarceration business in the United States, specifically related to youth incarceration

Tags: jargon , emerging media and technology , media and journalism , Design Innovation

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