By Christian Konczal Two months ago I was told to pack my bags because I was chosen to accompany the BREAKAWAY team on their journey across the globe. I was ecstatic. BREAKAWAY’s mission to help end violence against women and girls nationwide is a goal that is crucial and necessary. BREAKAWAY’s recent achievement at being […]
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By Ann DeMarle As we turn to the holiday season, I’ve been reflecting on all of the travel we’ve done during holidays past due to our United Nations sponsored BREAKAWAY, the game initiative addressing violence against women and girls. It may be the EMC project mostly likely to be nominated as the soul of the […]
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By Jocelyn Sargent LuFei (Vera) Sun is an MFA in Emergent Media student at Champlain College. Vera has been working on curating the ‘Shanghai Digital Artists’ exhibit, bringing artwork from six Chinese artists to display in Champlain College’s Miller Center building. I recently sat down with Vera, as well as Rick Harrington, the Emergent Media […]
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By Dr. Geoffrey Bell, Associate Professor, MS Shanghai China campus On March 15th, 2014 Dr. Geoffrey Bell—Associate Professor in the Shanghai MS-EM program brought his students to Chinaccelerator (a member of the Global Accelerator Network), which is the first mentorship-driven seed funding program in China. The event showcased 10 successful entrepreneurs who spoke for 10 […]
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By Dr. William F. Smith (Photo caption: Dr. Geoff Bell, Associate Professor at Champlain College MS-EM Shanghai with ICS-TV Culture Matters host Ms. Alison Watts.) Recently Dr. Geoffrey Bell—Associate Professor in the Shanghai MS-EM program, appeared on the International Channel Shanghai (ICS) TV program, ‘Culture Matters’, as a guest expert and was interviewed about the […]
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By Dr. Geoff Bell, Associate Professor, MS Shanghai China campus Recently I brought my MS in Emergent Media students to a Hackerspace in Shanghai called XinCheJian (translates to “new workshop”). Their website describes it as follows: “Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places all around the world, where people can meet and have fun on their projects. […]
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This snippet is re-posted from the EMC’s “Games Take on Violence Against Women” blog, chronicling the milestones and international journeys of the BREAKAWAY electronic game project. Read the full post here. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— We are breathing fresh air into this blog these next two weeks. It has been quiet not because important work spreading BREAKAWAY wasn’t […]
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By Dr. William F. Smith & Ann DeMarle It is with great pleasure and excitement that we share the proceedings of the recent launch of our newest Master’s degree and international program! On Thursday, October 24th, 2013 at 7pm, Champlain College officially opened its Master of Science in Emergent Media program in Shanghai, China. The […]
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