Center for Collaborative Media
Embracing Media
What we do.
The Center for Collaborative Media in the College of Liberal Arts is home to the development of creative projects and research. Media has become a central part of the modern human experience. We hope to educate students and colleagues about crafting media content, while also providing them with opportunities to put those skills to use.
A Creative hub
An engaging, welcome place for all.
The goal of the Center for Collaborative Media is to create spaces that will serve as hubs for students, faculty, departments, and creative professionals to learn, create, and distribute their work. Local creative professionals should reach out to the center about opportunities to partner on projects and creative endeavors.
Student Centered
Providing Mastodons with exciting and practical experience.
The goal of many of our collaborations is to allow students to connect with the Fort Wayne community while working with seasoned professionals. Through both classes and projects, students are afforded the opportunity to use what they are learning in practical contexts.
Community Partners
Collaboration is at our heart.
Intrinsic to the collaborative mission of the center is engagement between Purdue Fort Wayne and Fort Wayne communities—between students, film professionals, Purdue Fort Wayne faculty and staff, and community partners. We would like to encourage local groups, nonprofits, businesses, and organizations to reach out and explore how the center is helping to benefit Fort Wayne.
Collaborations
It takes working together.
Amazing things happen when people collaborate. That’s why the Center for Collaborative Media strives to reach out to our community—and beyond—to build partnerships that are mutually beneficial to our university and students. Read about our most recent collaborative efforts.
During the summer of 2019, the Center for Collaborative Media worked with the City of Fort Wayne, Riverfront Fort Wayne, and a group of students ahead of the grand opening of Promenade Park. Students learned what it was like to create marketing content for a client while under the supervision of our center staff. Their work was highlighted during the grand-opening celebrations of this major Riverfront Development milestone.
Derek Devine, CEO and founder of PUNCH Films, worked with the Center for Collaborative Media in the spring of 2019. In addition to facilitating a partnership with Cinema Center, Devine worked with students on their documentary projects throughout the semester. Devine continues to be a supporter and collaborator of our center.
As a successful outlet for communication scholarship, the International Journal of Communication is an online journal funded in part by the Annenberg Foundation that focuses on written scholarship. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of Critical Rhetoric, this issue blends the written word with audio/visual content designed for multiple platforms. It is the first of its kind for the journal and shows that both the ideas and the format of scholarship can push boundaries.
In the fall of 2019, Art Herbig, director of our center, served as the volunteer interim executive director of the Cinema Center during a time of transition for the organization.
Working with Sandy Pensoneau-Conway and Debra Ford, our center has already developed one video for the Inclusive Conference Spaces Project. The project is designed to promote diversity in the academy and to create resources for those just starting out and attending academic conferences.