English Language For Digital Media: Meet Professor Aida Osian
Master of Digital Media students come from all over the world, 60-70% of our students are international.
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Vancouver’s Strong Universities Play a Key Role in Growing Tech Scene
Vancouver’s tech scene is changing. What was once an industry dominated by small start-up companies is now morphing into an industry with the big tech players.
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Remembering David Lin: September 6, 1985 - June 28, 2019
Centre for Digital Media is saddened to learn that MDM alumni David Lin passed away on June 28, 2019. David graduated from the Master of Digital Media program in 2014. Before the MDM program, he graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double concentration of Design and Media in Interactive Arts and Technology.
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Visiting Professors: Maria Bakardjieva On New Media Regulation & Ethics
This is a guest post from MDM student Emma Konrad.
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Visiting Professors: Meet Laure Casalini From Rubika
In addition to our Industry Partnerships, the Centre for Digital Media is proud of our numerous Academic Partnerships, both with our
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Games for Good: MDM Students Build Serious Games
This semester three MDM student projects are using games or gamified technology to teach healthy behavioral changes in response to three very different problems industry clients posed to them. The three teams: The Goal Diggers, Viva la Vida, and the Brain Bros—while given different problems and briefed by very different clients—all decided to solve their clients’ problems by building digital, gamified solutions.
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Demo Day Mixed Start-ups with Accelerators, Funders and Like-Minded Entrepreneurs
Last Tuesday, Centre for Digital Media held its first annual Alumni Startup Demo Day & Mixer, where alumni startup companies from the MDM program, along with startups from CDM’s partner schools - UBC, SFU and BCIT - presented their companies, met with investors and networked with entrepreneurs.
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Top Centre for Digital Media News Stories of 2018
2018 was a fun time at the Centre for Digital Media. MDM students worked on many interesting industry projects, we processed a record number of MDM applications, held an unprecedented number of IDEA-X’s (10!), hosted some fantastic events on campus (including a student panel discussion with BC Green Party's Andrew Weaver, and VIFF Immersed, an immersive experience to re-imagine storytelling through xR), and we welcomed our newest full-time faculty member, Laura Ballay, to our impressive team of faculty. As 2018 draws to a close, we wanted to highlight the most popular stories of 2018.
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