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DMAC Summer Institute Funds Grad Fellowship and Undergrad Prize
The year-long Digital Media Fellowship will be awarded to a Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy graduate student doing work in digital media, with a demonstrated commitment to the intellectual and pedagogical work going on in and around the Digital Media Project, and whose dissertation project focuses on or relates to digital media issues in some way. The fellowship award is approximately $13,500.
The second initiative is a $600 annual prize (or several smaller prizes) for Digital Media Composition to be awarded to one or more undergraduates taking one of the digital media English classes, for an outstanding text that deploys digital media in creative and rhetorically effective ways.
Planning for the summer 2008 DMAC is already underway. "[This project] identifies Ohio State as a leading program in digital media and composition on a national level," said Cindy Selfe, Humanities Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of DMAC. Professor Selfe and DMP Director Scott Lloyd Dewitt have organized and implemented DMAC since the first institute in 2006.
"DMAC has been successful in bringing faculty and graduate scholars from across the country to Columbus to design meaningful and thoughtful ways of integrating digital technologies into English composition classrooms," said Selfe. "It succeeds so well, I believe, because it directs attention to student needs first, curricula considerations second, and technology third."
"DMAC recognizes and studies the emerging digital literacies that are permeating our culture rather than dismissing them as unimportant or irrelevant to the work of English studies. Instead, DMAC takes a critical approach to deploying these technologies in rhetorical and nuanced ways," Selfe said.
After designating money for the fellowship and prize, the DMP staff also purchased five new cameras, seven new digital audio recorders, and other equipment to support departmental work in digital media.
