News
10
Feb
What are the New Media Literacies? (and why should you care)
By: Mark Rabo
The new media literacies are a set of social skills critical to living, working, and participating in today’s connected world. Media literacy used to be about interpreting what we saw,
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9
Feb
A Digital Bar Mitzvah
By: Mark Rabo
The Bar Mitzvah in Jewish culture represents the moment when a 13 year old boy (Bat Mitzvah for a 12 year old girl) becomes responsible for their actions in the
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8
Feb
Interactivity rules at TIFF’s February edition of Packaged Goods
By: PeterK
TIFF’s fantastic Packaged Goods series continues its stellar programming of the latest and greatest music videos, commercials and short-form cinema with an evening on February 15th that is so positively
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6
Feb
Richard Lachman on The New Media Literacies
By: PeterK
During an information session for the Youth New Media Literacy Jam, an enthusiastic throng of soon-to-be jammers got an opportunity to hear Ryerson University’s Richard Lachman, an Assistant Professor in
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5
Feb
What Do You Get When You Cross An…
By: Mark Rabo
Illustrator, film maker, producer, photographer, writer, psychologist, youth worker, educator, hacker, maker, motion graphics artist, animator, web designer, sculptor, programmer, musician, video game maker, board game designer, pilot, break dancer,
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13
Jan
XMG Founder and CEO Ray Sharma to speak at Rotman
By: PeterK
As part of the Rotman School’s Mobile Technology Experts Speakers Series at the University of Toronto, Ray Sharma, the founder and CEO of the successful Toronto-based mobile gaming developer XMG
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10
Jan
Toronto is Getting in on the Global Game Jam!
By: PeterK
Calling all game developers! The International Game Developers Associations’ fourth annual Global Game Jam is soon upon us, and there are plenty of divisions around the world to register for
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12
Dec
Second TIFF Nexus conference inspires!
By: PeterK
The second TIFF Nexus conference took place last Friday afternoon at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, where an enthusiastic audience of industry delegates and students of diverse disciplines engaged in a
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6
Dec
Watch the TIFF Nexus Locative Media Innovation Day!
By: PeterK
In anticipation of our upcoming conference on Women in Film, Games and New Media this Friday, we’ve uploaded excerpts from the Locative Media Innovation Day we held as part of
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15
Nov
300,000 people have played Difference Engine game: Kreayshawn!
By: PeterK
Since hitting the inter-webs in October of 2011, Beth Maher’s flash-based video game starring the famed rapper Kreayshawn has gone viral attracting over 300,000 players and receiving a bevy of
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