USC Interactive Media Division
The University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television's Interactive Media Division first accepted students in 2002. In addition to coursework in film production, screenwriting, and animation students in the division study across three disciplines: immersive, video games, mobile. The IMD has a group weblog edited by the students and faculty, sharing the results of their research. In addition, the Division has been actively experimenting with Backchannel.
Major funders of the USC IMD include Electronic Arts, whose Bing Gordon took a faculty chair at the school in 2005.
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Personnel
Faculty & Staff
Currently, the division is headed by Scott Fisher, a pioneer in virtual reality research, with help from Jen Stein, a media and communications scholar. Faculty have included Steve Anderson, Anne Balsamo, Julian Bleecker, Mark Bolas, Peter Brinson, Tracy Fullerton, Perry Hoberman, Michael Lew, Erik Loyer, Jacki Morie, Michael Naimark, Eddo Stern, Chris Swain, Peggy Weil.
Students
Students attending the USC IMD have included Vincent Diamante, Julie Dillon, Erin Dinehart, Jenova Chen, Josh Green, Justin Hall, Yuechuan Ke, Noah Keating, Leonard Lin, Aaron Meyers, Victoria Moran, Erik Nelson, Brad Newman, Doo-Yul Park, Mihai Peteu, Jess Rosenblatt, Susana Ruiz, Andrew Sacher, Kellee Santiago, Michael Steffen, Anita Stokes, Shelby Wong, Herb Yang, Ashley York.
Alumni
2005: Mike Brinker, Will Carter, Todd Furmanski, Kurt MacDonald, Tripp Millican, Stephanie Weinstein.