Monmouth University
Assistant Professor, Digital Media
The Department of Communication at Monmouth University is seeking applications from an outstanding interactive technology and digital media practitioner and scholar for the position of Assistant Professor of Digital Media to serve its new Interactive Digital Media graduate concentration and Media Studies and Production undergraduate cluster. This opening is for the 2019-2020 academic year and is a tenure-track appointment.
The successful candidate should be able to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in digital media, creative coding, programming for emerging technologies, and should have experience in project-based learning to create potential new classes in the areas of visual communication, computer-mediated communication, and emerging media production. The preferred candidate has a wide-range of expertise, including experience in three or more of the following emerging technologies areas: critical studies of digital technology, immersive media, new media research methods, physical digital integration, game design, data visualization, sonification, ambient computing, virtual/augmented reality, interactive narrative, physical computing, user experience design, and mobile development.
The Department of Communication is a dynamic department that serves 400 undergraduate majors in three clusters — Media Studies & Production, Journalism/Public Relations, and Communication Studies — and 40 graduate students in its Master’s program in Communication.
The department is home to the Future Media Lab, a leading-edge studio and lab for research engagement with emerging technology and communication in the context of cultural production. Tools in the lab support interactive exhibition design, game design, mixed reality, ambient computing, media engineering, robotics, virtual/augmented reality, and experiential design.
For additional information about the department, please go to: https://www.monmouth.edu/department-of-communication/
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