About the Center
Research conducted in the CTM explores the potential of emerging technologies to transform society — and our potential to develop new media technologies — as well as how people and communities use existing and emerging media in innovative and creative ways. We enable such research through activities including monthly research jams, research mini-grants, and fellows programs.
The Center for Transformative Media challenges race, gender, and socioeconomic inequalities both locally and globally through creative engagements with networked media. We are committed to empowering communities with the use of and access to networked media by facilitating forward-thinking research. Specifically, we aim to enhance technology and media engagement, promote mobility/data justice, and create the conditions for sustainable cities. We aim to accomplish our goals by encouraging new faculty collaborations and new types of community connection.
Our Goals:
- Create global, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional collaborations to challenge socioeconomic, gender, and racial inequalities related to the use of and access to emerging media and networked technologies;
- Engage with emerging media and networked technologies to improve lives and empower marginalized communities, leading to mobility/data justice, sustainable cities, and health equity.
- Support engaged research that creatively challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries and conventional technology design/use through play and games.
- Provide a platform for open-access and community engaged research projects that are both historically informed and futuristically oriented;
- Encourage public dialogue around the role of emerging technologies in shaping equitable and sustainable futures.
