Published twice a year, the Journal of Radio & Audio Media (JRAM) aims to promote scholarly discussions concerning radio and other contemporary audio media. As part of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), the journal publishes articles from around the world. This year, the Radio and Audio Media Division of the BEA, in collaboration with the …
It is relatively rare for a named professorship to be bestowed upon a faculty member. It takes a full career of teaching, research, and substantial contributions to their field for a professor to receive such a title, and even with those qualifications it is not a guarantee. Until recently, Professor Emeritus David Bordwell and Professor …
Associate Professor Karma Chávez has received two awards from the National Communication Association (NCA)! From the Latino Studies Division she has been named the 2015 Córdova-Puchot Scholar of the Year, and from the Caucus on GLBTQ Concerns she was given the Lambda Award for LGBTQ Advocacy. Both awards are tremendous honors and distinguish Professor Chávez for …
In October, former UW Communication Arts Ph.D. candidate Eric Crosby began work as the Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) in Pittsburgh. After studying the history of avant-garde film and video as a doctoral candidate at UW-Madison, Crosby began work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota in …
We the 350: Stories of Poverty, Racism, and Incarceration in Wisconsin Written & Directed by T. Banks and Sara McKinnon Cast includes Sean Avery, Matthew Lewis, Jurie Mayo, Rebecca Tillman, Devon Webb, Chelsea Whitaker Sat, Nov 7 at 8PM and Sun, Nov 8 at 2PMOverture Center Promenade HallSuggested Donation $5.00http://www.overturecenter.org/events/we-the-350 We the 350 is a …
The 33rd Annual Conference of the Association of Politics and the Life Sciencestakes place at UW-Madison on the 23rd and 24th of October. The keynote will be delivered by Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg …
Communication Arts Professor Lori Kido Lopez created an event called Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight in partnership with Cinematheque and WUD Film. Five Asian American films will make their Wisconsin premiere over the weekend of Oct. 10-11, 2015. Professor Lopez recently conducted an interview with Jacqueline Kim, a co-writer and star for the opening film, …
Dr. Lori Kido Lopez, Assistant Professor in Communication Arts, has been selected as an Outstanding Woman of Color for 2015-16! The Outstanding Women of Color Awards Selection Committee selected seven women in total from the UW-Madison campus: Earlise Ward, Associate Professor, School of Nursing; Faculty, Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI), Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, …
Matt Baldocchi is a Communication Arts Radio-TV-Film major at UW-Madison who worked on the new film The Unmiracle. Shot on location in Crystal Lake, Illinois, the film is about how the community comes together after a popular high school student overdoses. The film features an ensemble cast including Stephen Baldwin, Amy Lyndon, Kevin Sorbo, and …
Near the end of the 2015 spring semester, Communication Arts major Hannah Akbik won the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies Thematic Undergraduate Essay Contest! Akbik’s essay, entitled Technology and the Evolution of Human Health, was written for Professor Jenell Johnson’s course Comm Arts 472: Rhetoric and Technology. The essay explores Akbik’s experience with her Fitbit …