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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Media & Communications
Mission: Emerging media and informatics resources and technologies create unprecedented opportunities to bring forefront digital information to the public. The new media studio (tnms), a non-profit organization, works to realize this potential. To this end, tnms actively pursues its goals through a range of activities, including the provision of media production services, the distribution of digital educational products, and the development of innovative digital tools for public use. We create and operate many of our own projectsusing not only grants but also investments and strategic partnering with educational, scientific and industry organizations.
Programs: The new media studio's mission to enhance science and education has evolved with the advent of social media and social networking tools. The studio still builds state-of-the-science tools for visualizing data: from earth-orbiting satellite instrument data to mri brain scans. The studio has worked with a wide range of partner organizations--university and government labs, non- and for-profit corporations, foundations and professional associations--to advance the capabilities of science and the technical reach of public education. The studio, together with its research wing (the new media research institute), has more than a decade of active public benefit service, and is reaching out to new partners. The latest example is skoir, a software platform for digital science and engineering posters (the pilot effort was funded by the alfred p. Sloan foundation). Every year on a global scale millions of posters are created, displayed, and discarded. This effort accounts for tens of thousands of person years. Skoir will help capture the value of this labor for the benefit of the entire academy, helping science know what scientists know.