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Gibbs, Duquesne University, USA  \nAbstract  \nThe ambiguous identity of the digital media field, the ubiquity of media, and rapid and persistent technological change and innovation pose inimitable challenges for academic programs in digital media. Digitization of media is an underlying impetus for today’s rapid innovation that compels related academic programs in higher education to re-examine themselves to keep pace and to better understand their epistemological foundations. Digital innovation helped spur renewed awareness of human-centered design to solve ill-structured, highly complex problems. Design and Design Thinking (DT) provide a potential framework to aid in academic program assessment. In this paper I explore precepts of design and DT as a potential frame of context to aid in curriculum design. I present a case study example that examines the process to assess a digital media curriculum using a DT framework, an iterative process involving students, faculty, and academic and industry partners.  \nKeywords  \nDigital Media, Design, Design Thinking, Design Process, Design Iteration, Human-centered Design, Assessment.  \nIntroduction  \nOver the past 35 years colleges and universities worldwide created academic degree programs in new media, and a host of other titles. Many universities recognize that the field evolved into an established academic area and therefore offer related majors (Ryan, et al., 2014) . New media or digital media, as it is commonly referenced today, involves an array of approaches and disciplines (Sterne, 2005), influenced by psychology, computer science, art, design, media studies, human-computer interaction and communications. Scholars differ about what constitutes digital media, which contributes to the field’s indistinct professional identity (Huang, 2009; Peters & Nielsen,2013) . Digital media curricula in communications, computer sciences, and art departments can have disparate emphases ranging from broadcast media to interactive applications and gaming, to visual aesthetics and artistic expression. In terms of topics, historical framework, literature, research and even definitions of the field, an introductory digital media course as part of a similarly titled major (i.e., Digital Media, New Media, etc. ) offered through an art department will likely be quite different compared to an identically titled course and major offered in computer science or communications. This may also be true within academic programs of study. Within programs, philosophical viewpoints about what constitutes knowledge in digital media and how it can best be acquired often vary. The epistemological frameworks that determine relevant phenomena to study, methodological practices, types of evidence, research goals, assumptions and fundamental beliefs about the discipline, among other things, can differ (Brister, 2017), having significant implications for programs, faculty, and students. Differing epistemological frameworks as well as the breadth and diversity of curricula, while not uncommon in higher education, may be emblematic of the relative newness of digital media as an area of study, the ubiquity of media, and the lack of  \nclarity as to what digital media or new media represent. These factors are particularly noteworthy today as universities face much competition for students and, at the same time, they must increasingly demonstrate their value to students and ability to prepare them for professional life (Huq & Gilbert, 2017) .  \nCompounding these issues, many digital media programs endeavor to be technologically up-todate and at the forefront of innovation. Manovich (2001, p. 20) notes,“new media represents a convergence of two separate historical trajectories: computing and media technologies”. The digitization of media is an impetus for pervasive innovation and change, transforming industries and related work","cbCaipDvke3inCnf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipDvke3inCnf","pdf",503066,22,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n# Purpose\n# Background and literature","[{\"question\":\"What example structure is used to assess a digital media curriculum?\",\"answer\":\"A case study example is used to examine curriculum assessment through a DT framework, described as an iterative process involving students, faculty, and academic and industry partners.\"}]","Design Thinking - An Examination of Epistemological Frameworks in an Area of Academic Study | PDF",1792090159,55]