{"id":8471,"date":"2018-05-17T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T21:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2018-05-17T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T21:12:20","slug":"vicky-mcarthur-the-bachelor-of-media-production-and-designs-first-faculty-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/2018\/vicky-mcarthur-the-bachelor-of-media-production-and-designs-first-faculty-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicky McArthur: the Bachelor of Media Production and Design&#8217;s first faculty member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">A brand new degree for the School of Journalism and Communication naturally calls for recruiting a faculty member with a background very different from those traditionally hired over the nearly 75 years of Canada<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"s2\">s oldest journalism program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">That<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"s2\">s because the Bachelor of Media Production and Design, which will welcome its first class in September 2018, takes us in an exciting new\u00a0 direction. The four-year degree combines the teaching of multimedia storytelling skills with computer programming and design, and\u00a0is offered in collaboration with the School of Information Technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8472 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcarthur-400x386.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcarthur.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/wp-content\/uploads\/mcarthur-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/>It<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u2019<\/span><span class=\"s2\">s an ideal fit for Vicky McArthur, who joins the School in July as our first BMPD faculty member. She comes to Carleton from her current position as<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0an Assistant Professor, New Media and User Experience at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, with an accompanying graduate appointment in the university&#8217;s Faculty of Information.\u00a0<\/span>At U of T since 2014, McArthur focused on\u00a0new media design \u2013 including\u00a0game design and development \u2013 and interactive game narratives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s3\"><span class=\"s2\">Her\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">professional background in new and social media, game development, content management, and web design informed her previous teaching\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">at Brock, McMaster, University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Ryerson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Along with Chris Waddell, the BMPD&#8217;s Program Director, McArthur is looking forward to shaping the degree&#8217;s offerings in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\">\u201cAs a new undergraduate program, the Bachelor of Media Production and Design Program will prepare students for careers which demand both communications and journalistic skills as well as a nuanced familiarity with information communication technologies,\u201d she said. \u201cI am thrilled to work closely with BMPD students as they develop their skills as storytellers in the digital age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s2\">McArthur completed her Ph.D. with the Communication and Culture program at York University, with the dissertation <em>Me, Myself, and Interface: The Role of Affordances in Digital Visual Self-Representational Practices<\/em><\/span><span class=\"s2\">. Her Master of Arts was also at York in Interdisciplinary Studies, specializing in Communication &amp; Culture, Computer Science, and History. Prior to that, she received an Honours BA in Music from Brock. In addition, she has a certificate in Japanese language and cultural studies from Nagoya Gakuin University in Seto, Japan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"s4\"><span class=\"s2\">In 2018-2019 she will teach MPAD 1001 and 1002\u00a0Introduction to Storytelling: The Context and the Practice to our first BMPD cohort,\u00a0<\/span>as well as a course on Newsgames to Master of Journalism students. 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