Category: News
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Welcoming New Faces
New year, new NMI! We’re so excited to welcome the newest addition to the NMI team, Phoebe Finch. Phoebe is taking over as the NMI Social Media and Communications Assistant. Though Phoebe didn’t join the team until December, she originally started her New Media journey in Spring 2020 as a New Media Certificate student. Along with keeping everyone up-to-date on…
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Meet the NMIXperts
You know our motto — “Make something work. Then make it work better.” While we’re learning how to make it work on our journey to becoming technowledgable, there are a select few specially equipped to make it work even better. These incredible individuals are NMIXperts. From development to design, NMIXperts are New Media Certificate or Emerging Media…
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Teaching in New Spaces
UGA’s Innovation Hub is now open, and we’re excited that our students can enjoy everything this creative, co-working space has to offer! The Innovation Hub is home to UGA’s startup venture efforts and experiential learning activities, and NMI faculty and students get to be some of the first to enjoy this innovative expansion. Within this renovated space, we’re teaching…
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Volunteering for Voters
Expecting a record-breaking turnout during the 2020 election season, the Technology Association of Georgia reached out to allies across the state looking for Field Service Technicians. FSTs assist poll workers with all things technology: printers, tablets, voting equipment, and the like. Megan Ward and John Weatherford answered the call, volunteering their techspertise for the November 3rd general…
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Feasting on Hunger Bowl Success
Every year, the NMI teams up with the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication to compete in the Northeast Georgia Food Bank’s Hunger Bowl. Students, faculty, and staff come together to collect non-perishable, in-demand food items to help combat food insecurity in the Athens-Clarke County area. During this unprecedented year, the food bank saw demand…
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Go Dawgs, Pitch ‘Em!
John Weatherford joined forces with the UGA Entrepreneurship Program, housed in the Terry College of Business, to produce the 2020 SEC Student Pitch Competition. Teams of young entrepreneurs representing each of the 14 SEC universities were pitted against one another in an idea pitch competition that required gently juggling multiple YouTube livestreams and Zoom meetings simultaneously. John…
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Serving Students Near and Far
If you’ve been with us since the beginning, you know that the NMI was founded with a mission to serve as an academic resource for the entire UGA community. Today, the NMI is dedicated to this critical mission more than ever. We accomplish this largely through the New Media Certificate, but did you know that…
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No Travel, No Problem
With regularly-scheduled activities on pause, the time has never been better to attend conferences virtually. This semester, Leah Moss has already dedicated time to learn from industry experts by attending Inclusive Design 24, the Seattle Interactive Conference, and Adobe MAX. The overarching theme of all three events: how designers and educators can level up working remote, a topic…
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This is Hallow-EM
As the EM alumni base continues to expand, a new tradition offers an opportunity for everyone to come back together. Enter, the Emerging Media Alumni Reunion! During the first of many virtual happy hours to come, alumni swapped stories, competed in Kahoots, and battled it out over the best Halloween candy and costumes. We look forward to…
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Doubling Up On Double Dogs
Three years ago UGA launched Double Dawgs, enabling ambitious students to earn both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in five years or less. Since then, Emerging Media Double Dawgs has grown tremendously — and the NMI is just getting started! Based on demand from New Media Certificate students, we’re delighted to announce new Double Dawg offerings…