Sanford Media Resource & Design Center
University of Alabama Libraries
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0266
(205)348-4674
rccox@ua.edu
Dickie Cox (a.k.a. Richard C. Cox, III) serves as the primary contact for faculty who are interested in planning course projects that would have students utilize the R&D's resources or who seek media software instruction for small classes. He provides instruction to students in all aspects of media production and is the lead instructor for one-on-one instruction in graphic design, web design, and audio recording.
Administrator and faculty member of the R&D, Cox received his M.F.A. in Design from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts (Richmond,VA) where he also instructed in electronic media and filmmaking. For seven years, he worked as a sound recordist in film production and as an editor/compositing artist in video post-production in the Virginia/Washington DC area. In addition, he has directed and edited over a dozen short films and musical videos.
In addition to his primary duties, he is a professor of record for the UA Department of Art's ART-225, Introduction to Digital Art , and for the UA Honor's College UH-155, Narrative and New Media.
Waiting: hand-drawn cel animation (work in progress), 2006
Discourse with Self-Portrait 2006: experimental multimedia animation, 2006
Awareness: experimental short video, 2005
Walking with the Beggar Boys: music video for Elf Power’s Sixth LP of the same title, 2004
With: A Study in Sentience: animated experimental video, 2002
Isian Subspace Transmission: experimental short video, 2001
The Menace Before Departure: animated short film, 1997
The Sanford Media Resource & Design Center Web Site: webmaster and designer for site which uses CSS and XHTML-strict markup
The University of Alabama Libraries Web Site: backup webmaster and Contribute admin
Forthcoming Consortium of College & University Media Centers Web Site: (Links to approved design prototype for a major site redesign and migration to Drupal, open source CMS) Serving as a task force coordinator for the project and the publishing editor of the new site (roll out set for July 2007)
Saving Often: audio podcast, author and publisher
Drag & Drop: video podcast, coordinator, content-provider, and publisher
UA Libraries' Lecture and Book Talk Video Series: video podcast, coordinator and publisher
Glowing Ibis Glossary: personal site
Flash Gallery: gallery constructed as a sample for a New Media Journalism Course lead by Dr. George Daniels, provided technical instruction for this depth reporting class.
Cox, Dickie & Hawkins, Gary. (2006).Digital Media Production Centers Within Southeastern Academic Libraries. College & University Media Review, 12(1), 9-22.
Cox, Richard C. , Dr. George L. Daniels, and Robert Puppione. (2006, November). Pegging the Podcast Potential in the Classroom and the Newsroom: Lessons Learned From a 2006 Experiment. Feedback, Vol. 47 No. 6, 27-36. Retrieve from http://www.beaweb.org/feedback/feed47v6.pdf
Cox. Dickie, “Episode 7: Guest – Steve Miller” Saving Often: A Podcast produced by the Sanford Media Resource and Design Center. September 28, 2006. http://www.lib.ua.edu/randd/podcast/archive/so20060928.mp3
Cox, Dickie, “Episode 6: Guest-Michael Gordon” Saving Often: A Podcast produced by the Sanford Media Resource and Design Center. May 9, 2006. http://www.lib.ua.edu/randd/ podcast/archive/so20060509.mp3
Cox, Dickie, “Episode 5: Guest-Janeann Dill” Saving Often: A Podcast produced by the Sanford Media Resource and Design Center. Apr. 19, 2006. http://www.lib.ua.edu/randd/ podcast/archive/so20060419.mp3
Cox, Dickie. (2006, Spring). "Saving Often Program Brings Podcasting to UA" Library Horizons, Vol. 19 No. 2, p.1. Retrieve from http://www.lib.ua.edu/pubs/HorizonSpring06v2.pdf
Cox, Dickie, “Episode 004: Guest-Jessica Lacher-Feldman ” Saving Often: A Podcast produced by the Sanford Media Resource and Design Center. Dec. 5, 2005. Retrieve from http://www.lib.ua.edu/randd/ podcast/archive/so20051206.mp3
Cox, Dickie, “Episode 003: Guest-Dr. Brian Evans ” Saving Often: A Podcast produced by the Sanford Media Resource and Design Center. Oct. 10, 2005. Retrieve from http://www.lib.ua.edu/randd/ podcast/archive/so20051010.mp3
Cox, Dickie, “Episode 002: Guest-Dr. George L Daniels” Saving Often: A Podcast produced by the Sanford Media Resource and Design Center. Sept. 26, 2005. Retrieve from http://www.lib.ua.edu/randd/ podcast/archive/so20050926.mp3
Cox, Dickie, “Episode 001: Guest-Wayne Rau” Saving Often: A Podcast produced by the Sanford Media Resource and Design Center. Sept. 12, 2005. Retrieve from http://www.lib.ua.edu/randd/ podcast/archive/so20050912.mp3
Cox, Richard C. and Dr. George L. Daniels. (2005, September). Partnering as Necessary Production Pedagogy Tool in the Age of Convergence. Feedback, Vol. 46 No. 5, 23-27. Retrieve from http://www.beaweb.org/feedback/feed46v5.pdf
Cox, Dickie. (2004, Fall). "Students Produce Media-Rich Projects at UA Libraries" Library Horizons, Vol. 18 No. 1, p.6. Retrieve form http://www.lib.ua.edu/pubs/horizons_fall_04.pdf
Cox, Dickie. (2003-2004, Fall/Spring). "Digital Media Lab Opens in Gorgas" Library Horizons, Vol. 17 No. 1-2, 1-2. Retrieve form http://www.lib.ua.edu/pubs/horizons_2004.pdf
The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations Student Online Magazine Working Group, Tuscaloosa, AL, Invited Presentation, "Thinking about the Contemporary User-Centered Web Experience": Powerpoint Slides Available
Alabama Chapter of the Special Libraries Association Fall Professional Development Conference (SLA), Montgomery, AL, Invited Presentation, “Transformative Media Technologies in Libraries”: PDF of Presentational Slides
Consortium of College and University Media Centers 2006 Annual Conference, Austin, TX, Peer-Reviewed Panel Presentation, “The Phenomena of Podcasting”
Alabama Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Tuscaloosa, AL, Invited Presentation, “Tuning in to Digital Audio: Aspects of Production, Delivery, and Consumption in the 21st Century ”: Powerpoint Slides Available
Consortium of College and University Media Centers 2005 Annual Conference, Portland, OR, Peer-Reviewed Panel Presentation, “Transforming Learning through Digital Media Production Centers in Academic Libraries”: PDF of this Presentation's Conference Proceedings
Alabama Scholastic Press Association 2004 Fall Regional Workshop, Tuscaloosa, AL, Invited Presentation, “Technological Learning Spaces: An Overview of the Sanford Media Resource and Design Center”
Society for Photographic Education Southeastern 2002 Regional Conference Presentation, Richmond, VA, Invited Presentation, “The Use of Still Photography in the Moving Image” (scheduled speaker: David Williams)