Digital Communications at Lebanon Valley College

DigiCOM Professor has solo show, "Blur" To mark the opening of "Blur," the solo show of Assistant Professor Mathew Samuel, a gallery opening reception will be held 5-9 pm on July 1st at the Candy Factory (map) .

 



DigiCOM Professor Presents at iDMAa Conference On November 4th, Jeff Ritchie presented “The Narratological Affordances and Constraints of Mobile Locative Media” as part of the New Media Caucus panel at the international digital media and arts association conference in Vancouver, BC.

Fall 2010, No More DIGICOM Program...We're Our Own Department! 
Starting in Fall 2010, the digital communications program will be formally recognized as the Digital Communications Department. This change follows a busy 09-10 academic year, during which we successfully completed an international search to hire a professor of design, opened the DIGICOM Usability Lab, created the DIGICOM Studio, in which students can collaborate on projects, and have had our first cohort enter under our newly revised curriculum.  We're currently working on creating more opportunities for faculty-student research and creative projects, developing collaborative relationships with area technology companies, and developing a larger selection of regularly offered, upper-division courses.  

DIGICOM Partners with SARCC, AT&T, and Pa. District Attorneys Institute on “Sexting” Town Meeting LVC's Digital Communications department, through the efforts of Joel Kline, associate professor of digital communications and Jeff Ritchie, associate professor and chair of digital communications, has partnered with several agencies to establish a symposium-style event to raise awareness on the issues of sexting and protecting your digital image. The town meeting was held in the Lebanon High School Auditorium on Tuesday, April 20. All attendees left the symposium with a positive intervention packaged developed by Sexual Assault Resource Counseling Center (SARCC) and its partners to help parents navigate this important issue with children. A student group from the DCOM 440 Capstone Research and Development course recorded the event to create an online archive of materials related to this issue.  
For some time, AT&T, Lebanon Valley College, and the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute (PDAA) has been looking to partner on a symposium-style event to raise awareness on the issues of sexting and protecting your digital image. The PDAA has taken a two-pronged, proactive approach to address this issue, launching an educational campaign last fall “Let’s Talk About Sexting” targeting high school students and parents and working with the legislature to make changes to the law in order to deal with the issue appropriately and consistently throughout the commonwealth.
LVC and AT&T have a previous partnership. The AT&T Foundation awarded the College a grant that was used to help create a mobile usability laboratory.

DIGICOM Student Wins Area Logo Contest  The winning entry in a competition among area students to create a logo for the Lebanon Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 Go Green Expo was unveiled by the Chamber on February 23 in a ceremony at the Chamber’s offices.  Jonathan Gingrich, digital communications, design concentration (10) created the winning logo design selected by the Chamber for use in marketing this year’s Expo.


Students post LVC's first Web Newscast Students in DCOM/ENG 316 Journalism in the Digital Age published LVC's first web newscast on October 24th, as part of their efforts to create LaVie Online. http://lavieonline.lvc.edu/ The course explores: "ways that digital technology continues to transform journalistic standards, practices, and values. Participants will study and learn how to create professional blogs, use audio and video equipment, and employ varied techniques to create narratives appropriate for multimedia platforms. By the end of the semester students should have enhanced their communications skills, and heightened their awareness of social, cultural, economic, and political implications of online technologies and applications.
 

 LVC Art/DIGICOM Professor Creates a New Wrinkle on the Old Masters Dr. Grant Taylor exhibited his new outdoor projection artwork at the Digital Media Exposition, from June 12 to 14 in Narrowsburg, N.Y. Taylor projected a collection of six Baroque and Neoclassical artworks onto a piece of earth-moving machinery. The paintings chosen to project were mostly by Caravaggio, the 16th-century Baroque artist. The idea emerged from Taylor's desire to combine the multilevel surface of machinery with the intricate folded surfaces found in Baroque painting. Taylor also liked the idea of overlaying the heightened drama of Caravaggio and David with the mechanical power of heavy earth-moving equipment. Taylor, an assistant professor of art history and digital communications, is interested in the symbiotic relationship involving art, science, and technology in the late 20th century. He teaches courses in modern art, design theory, and digital film production.

DCOM students win College-wide writing awards Katie Costolnick (Design concentration, '12) and Steve Whiskeyman (Communications concentration, '09) won college-wide writing awards. Katie's essay "Human Reproductive Cloning" won in the First-Year Students category. Steve's essay "The Real Muhammad: Fact vs. Fabrications in Western Perceptions of Islam" won in the Humanities category.

posters

ValleyFest Poster Competition Two students from the DCOM 355 (Digital Graphic Design) fall '08 class, Sean Deffley and Shaun Kreider, won the Valley Fest Poster Competition. Deffley's poster became the official poster for Valley Fest 2009, while Krieder's poster became the official band poster for EVE6.


LVC Students exhibit works Students from DCOM 210 Graphic Design Class exhibited their Poetry Illustrations in the Gallery of the Lebanon Valley Council on the Arts at 734 Willow Street Friday, May 1st as part of Lebanon's First Friday Art Walk. Their pictures accompanied the work of Frank Atkinson, the featured artist in the Arts Council Gallery whose paintings and drawing are illustrations to his fantasy novels.

LVC DIGICOM Student Designs Number-One College Theater Website in the U.S. Lebanon Valley College's theater website has been rated number one in the nation by ClickitTicket, an independent sports, theater, and concert ticket agency. LVC's Wig and Buckle Theater Company website "is cheery, welcoming, and easy to use. The background of the stage curtain is very cool," according to ClickitTicket, which posted an online guide to the top 20 university/college theater club websites that represent "the spirit and the magic of the theater." See the full list at: www.clickitticket.com/articles/topTheaterClubSites.htm.

LVC's site ranked above those at much larger institutions such as Stanford University, third place; Princeton University, fifth; the University of Southern California, sixth; and Wellesley College, 13th, to name a few. Wig and Buckle, LVC's theater company since 1935, got its prize-winning website thanks to Sean Deffley, a sophomore digital communications major from Barnesville, PA.