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Liss Platt, Geoffrey Rockwell, Andrew Mactavish, multimedia.
Liss Platt, Geoffrey Rockwell, Andrew Mactavish
From text analysis to digital games, researchers are investigating
the changing world of multimedia in McMaster’s School of the
Arts (SOTA).
Federal funding worth a total of $6.7 million will allow Dr. Geoffrey
Rockwell, assistant to the dean for computing and humanities computing
professor in SOTA, to work with scholars across the country on a
project called Text Analysis Portal for Research.
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The funding, announced in early 2002 by the Canada Foundation
for Innovation, will enable the team to help scholars of literature
and linguistics obtain electronic access to texts and analysis
tools. “We’re building infrastructure to help
people who want to study electronic texts,” says Dr.
Rockwell, who studies text analysis tools, instructional technology
and multimedia.
Dr. Andrew Mactavish, Multimedia, studies hypertext theory,
and the history and politics of technology in the humanities.
He belongs to research groups at McMaster studying streaming
media technologies, text analysis and globalization. For example,
one colleague, Dr. Liss Platt, is a digital video artist who
will study and teach the use of streaming media.
“For hard-core gamers, playing digital games is much
more than a casual pastime,” says Mactavish. “It
is a way of life shared within large communities on the Internet,
which is contrary to the common perception of gaming as anti-social
and isolating.”
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