Dr. D. Renee Smith is the Coordinator for Digital Media Services at the University of Tennessee. Her responsibilities include working with faculty to convert analog materials to digital formats for classroom instruction and managing a digitization facility providing on demand delivery of digital media. She also serves an an instructor for the Journalism/Electronic Media Department in the College of Communication and Information. With research interests ranging from streaming video technologies to minority images in the media Renee is an avid promoter of digital media. She has over twenty years experience in television and video production and a strong background in media theory.