Chapter 16: Digital Culture: Social Media, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality

Fitchburg State Connection 

The Digital Media Innovation (DMI) major offers students an innovative and adaptive pathway model that provides cutting-edge digital skills through hands-on experiential learning. The pathways offer opportunities to study digital storytelling, culture, and societal applications of data and its ultimate goal is to have students activate their learned digital skills by way of experiential projects throughout their coursework and especially in their capstone course. Additionally, these hands-on projects demonstrate the way that digital technology and computing are changing social and cultural systems in commerce, the law, the arts, and the broader human experience.

This major is designed to creatively explore digital multimedia in a way that can be applied to a wide variety of careers and across a large cross-section of disciplinary practices (currently nine different disciplines). New digital tools continue to reshape industries across the globe. The DMI program culminates in a capstone project that demonstrates the changing ways we construct narratives using data and make technologies and practices that reconsider the human experience in a digital age. The capstone project is geared around student scholarship and professional development, providing an opportunity to develop professional portfolio pieces that will assist students in their careers.

You can find more information here: https://www.fitchburgstate.edu/academics/programs/digital-media-innovation-babs.