Michael Rabby’s recent article, “Inclusive measures: Establishing audio description tactics that impact social inclusion and public health,” co-authored with Brett Oppegaard, appears in Amplifying Voices in UX: Balancing Design and User Needs in Technical Communication.
Dene Grigar’s book, The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, Emulations, co-authored with Maruisz Pisarski (University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland) was published by Cambridge University Press and released on March 22, 2024.
Ruth Gregory, Associate Professor in DTC Pullman, recently won Best of Competition in the Narrative Feature Category for the Faculty Scriptwriting Competition at the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA) Festival of […]
John Barber (Professor, DTC Vancouver) was interviewed on Thursday, January 4 by Greg Nibler on Fox/KPTV about his Re-imagined Radio project. As previously described on KXRW: Re-Imagined Radio is a […]
Electronic literature uses games, images, videos, sounds, links, navigation, and other digital qualities as an essential part of the reading experience. What can we do to make these experiences more […]
DTC faculty, June Sanders and Jacob Riddle, will lead the study abroad program “Animation, Design, and Activism” in Berlin from May 13th to June 7th, 2024. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the rich history and culture of Berlin while earning academic credits.
Dene Grigar (Professor, DTC Vancouver, Electronic Literature Lab) and her Co-PI, Frode Hegland (University of Southampton, United Kingdom), were awarded $250,000 USD from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their project “The Future of Text In Extended Reality.” The funding begins in January 2024 and supports three initiatives relating to Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, which are collectively called “XR”.
Scholar and activist Eliseo Ortiz recently participated as a guest lecturer in Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory art project and exhibition aimed at raising awareness about the human cost of policies that restrict immigration and movement across borders. Initiated by the Undocumented Migration Project and organized by over 150 collaborators worldwide, the exhibition features a wall map of North America marked with over 3,000 handwritten tags representing migrants who have died while crossing the US-Mexico border in the last two decades. This interactive memorial encourages visitors to engage with the data and stories behind each tag.
A team of Washington State University students is developing an app that’ll help connect members of the Pullman community with local businesses. The app – Local Cougs – will allow users to learn more about the businesses around them and ideally generate a vital wave of support coming off of two years of struggling through the pandemic. Local Cougs is currently in the prototype stage, with plans for beta testing this summer.