Texas State University’s MILab focuses primarily on academic research and influencing undergraduate and postgraduate digital media teaching. Director of the Media Innovation Lab Cindy Royal believes academic research and evolution of university media courses to be the foundation to a better understanding of the current media environment:

“A lot of the things that we’re making are in the structure of courses. We’re instructing students right now in hopes that they’re creating things that will improve their portfolio, things that we can submit to competitions, and then maybe eventually out of that something viable from a business perspective will come out of it,” she explains.

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