Comm Arts faculty alumns David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson were recently featured in Roger Ebert’s Journal on the topic of where critics and scholars habitually sit at the movies. Ebert also heaps praise on their collective scholarship, calling their jointly-written Observations on Film Art “the world’s best film blog.” Referring to David’s recent post, “Down In …
Professor Robert Asen‘s book Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates (Michigan State University Press, 2009) was recently selected as the winner of the 2011 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism. The prize was awarded to Professor Asen earlier this month in a ceremony at the National Communication Association 97th Annual Convention in New …
Communication Arts graduate student Michael Braun won a Top Student Paper prize at the National Communications Association 97th Annual Convention in New Orleans earlier this month. His paper, titled “Obstacles to Social Networking Website Use in Older Adults,” garnered first place in the Human Communication and Technology division. (Click here to read the award-winning paper.) …
Everyone needs friends. The Communication Arts Department is lucky to have a distinguished group of them, known as CAPS, or Communication Arts Partners. Some are alumni of the UW, some are current and former faculty; all take a generous and helpful interest in the department and how to keep it strong and innovative. Twice a …
This fall, the media and cultural studies group blog Antenna: Responses to Media & Culture celebrates its two-year anniversary. Operated and edited by the graduate students and faculty in the Media and Cultural Studies area of the Department of Communication Arts, the website attracts contributions not only from faculty and students across the department but …
Professor Karma R. Chávez has just been selected as the 2011-12 recipient of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Humanities’ First Book Project Award. A very competitive process, the First Book program is an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that supports the efforts of one tenure-track junior faculty member per year, …
At the 2011 Department of Communication Arts Awards Luncheon, Lee de Boer (B.A. ’74) received the second annual Outstanding Alumnus Award for his many accomplishments in television, cable, and new media. Perhaps his biggest accomplishment was his role as one of the principal architects of Time-Warner’s Home Box Office (HBO) expansion. De Boer led the …
Too often the mention of summer internships conjures up images of endless hours of copying, answering multiple phone lines, and fetching coffee. But an increasing number of Comm Arts interns are making tweets instead of copies and answering Facebook posts rather than phones. From Twitter to Tublr, from video to text, Comm Arts interns are …
Are you thinking about introducing your 70 year old grandmother, mother, or friend to Facebook? Do you think you’ll be successful? According to graduate student Michael Braun’s (BA ’06, MA ’11) research on older adult’s use of social networking sites, three factors will help predict your success rate. His findings suggest that older adults are more …
With the support of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates (MIU), the Comm Arts Department will offer a new digital media production class next fall. Introduction to Digital Media Production, a hands-on project-based course, will teach students basic digital media production skills in areas such as web design and programming, high-definition video shooting/editing, digital audio production, …