Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Doctor of Philosophy in Digital Media

Georgia Tech’s School of Literature, Communication, and Culture PhD in Digital Media is one of the first of its kind worldwide. It is aimed at educating research-oriented theorist/practitioners who will bring the traditions of the humanities and arts to the design of digital media.

The faculty in Digital Media within the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture are a unique group of technologically sophisticated practitioner theorists, rooted in the disciplines of the humanities, with decades of experience as innovators of advanced applications. The program is strengthened by its concentration within a single academic unit, and its active participation in Georgia Tech’s interdisciplinary Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center, which provides a framework for close research relationships with computer scientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, architects, and system engineers. Because of the strength and range of faculty research in digital media, graduate students are currently involved in advanced projects in such areas as information visualization, educational computing, digital video and animation, ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, virtual reality, game design, interactive television, responsive spaces, and digital art installations.

Graduates of the program will be prepared to work in industry, public service, and universities, where they will help to shape the emerging digital genres and to expand our understanding and mastery of the representational power of the computer.