Archive for Technology

Social Media Hits Video Game Consoles

As social media grows and video game consoles advance, video game makers are focusing on convergence, combining software and the Internet to create a console that serves as a user’s sole digital entertainment device. The latest Playstation 3 firmware update, version 3.1, allows users to link their online profiles with their Facebook accounts.  While the [...]

Lensbaby: make artistic photos without computer editing

The lensbaby is a tilt-and-shift selective lens for DSLR cameras that creates artistic photos manually. These lenses are great for photographers who do not want to spend time in Photoshop making creative changes on their photographs.  There are three main types of lensbaby lenses: the muse, the composer, and the control freak. The lensbaby is [...]

Google adds Live Updates

Google adds Live Updates Google has added live updates to its search engine, a move that will most definitely please the high demanding world that we live in today. With this new technology or approach, Google will be able to update its search engine to the second of new data being uploading over its servers. [...]

The Most Anticipated Game of the Decade

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is haled as the most anticipated game of the decade. The game, which released on November 10th accounted for roughly a fifth of the total videogame sales in November. With 3.6 million units sold, Call of Duty brought in $150 million in the first 24 hours of its release. [...]

WordPress & the Social Web

The Digital Media Studies program has embraced WordPress as a platform for building our online presence and integrating our site to the social web. WordPress serves as a simple content management system, especially for ministries and other non-profit organizations, who need to provide fresh, new information online, but do not have the expertise to constantly [...]


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The Digital Media Studies major is an interdisciplinary program joining Art, Communication Arts, and Computer Science. Its purpose is to produce a student that is aesthetically, theoretically, and technologically trained and capable of excellence in the relatively new area of the design, production, and implementation of digital media.