Media Arts and Practice
Encyclopedia
The University of Southern California
's School of Cinematic Arts
's interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) Ph.D. program first accepted students in 2007. iMAP is a practice-based Ph.D. program, in which students develop skills in both the theory and practice of media arts, doing doctoral level research that may be realized in an exclusively digital form. Media Arts and Practice deploys a web aggregator composed of feeds by students and faculty, for whom the site functions as a collectively authored research space.
with help from Jen Stein. Currently, the program is directed by Steve Anderson, with faculty including Scott Fisher
, Anne Balsamo, Kathy Smith
, Aniko Imre, Henry Jenkins
, Holly Willis
, Norm Hollyn, and Jack Epps Jr.
.
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
's School of Cinematic Arts
USC School of Cinematic Arts
The USC School of Cinematic Arts, until 2006 named the School of Cinema-Television , is a film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest and largest such school in the United States, established in 1929 as a joint venture with the Academy of...
's interdivisional Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) Ph.D. program first accepted students in 2007. iMAP is a practice-based Ph.D. program, in which students develop skills in both the theory and practice of media arts, doing doctoral level research that may be realized in an exclusively digital form. Media Arts and Practice deploys a web aggregator composed of feeds by students and faculty, for whom the site functions as a collectively authored research space.
Faculty & Staff
The program was conceived and founded by Anne FriedbergAnne Friedberg
Anne Friedberg was Chair of the Critical Studies Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and President-elect of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. An author, historian and theorist of modern media culture, Friedberg received her PhD. in Cinema...
with help from Jen Stein. Currently, the program is directed by Steve Anderson, with faculty including Scott Fisher
Scott Fisher
Scott Fisher may refer to:*Scott Fisher *Scott Fisher See also*Scott Fischer, American climber*Scott Fischer, Author...
, Anne Balsamo, Kathy Smith
Kathy Smith
Kathy Smith is a personal trainer who became well known for her workout videos during the late-1980s and 1990s. She has sold millions of videos and DVDs. Her first video was released in 1988. She is 5 ft 9 in and 135 lb....
, Aniko Imre, Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins III is an American media scholar and currently a Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the USC School of Cinematic Arts...
, Holly Willis
Holly Willis
Holly Willis is Director of Academic Programs at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. She is former editor of RES and co-curator of the RESFest and former co-founder and West Coast Editor of Filmmaker Magazine....
, Norm Hollyn, and Jack Epps Jr.
Jack Epps Jr.
Jack Epps Jr. is an American screenwriter, known chiefly for such popular 80's films as Top Gun, Legal Eagles and The Secret of My Success, which he wrote with longtime partner, the late Jim Cash.-Filmography:*Hawaii 5-0...
.