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 …
In her many years as a scholar, Professor Michele Hilmes has been no stranger to awards and praise for her work. It should come as no surprise then that she has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Wayne Danielson award for distinguished contributions to communications scholarship. The award is bestowed by the Moody College of …
Communication Arts Professor Jonathan Gray is one of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award recipients in 2015! Jonathan Gray has been a Media & Cultural Studies professor at UW-Madison for the past six years. He has taught CA 451 – Television Criticism, several seminars, and will soon be teaching CA 458 – Global Media Cultures, among …
Our Department’s Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is justifiably famous for maintaining, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Historical Society, one of the world’s great film archives. WCFTR is also committed to the Wisconsin Idea of outreach, and a splendid incarnation of that mission is WCFTR’s participation in the Oneida Nation Film Preservation …
Communication Arts Professor Derek Johnson is the recent co-recipient of the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association’s (ICA) Popular Communication Division. ICA’s website states that “the award honors a scholar no more than seven years past receipt of the Ph.D. for a body of work that has contributed to knowledge of the …
In collaboration with Madison-based nonprofit GSAFE, UW Professors Sara McKinnon and Maurice Gattis recently released a report entitled “School Experiences of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students in Wisconsin.” To gain some insight into their study, I asked Professor McKinnon about the research that was done. Tell me a bit about the research you did with transgender and gender …
In the last few years, crowdfunding has exploded in popularity. Sites like Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com provide easy-to-use platforms for people to create campaigns to fund creative projects. Such projects range from new inventions, to video games, to films, and more. Each campaign sets a fundraising goal that must be met in order for the campaign to receive the money …
Liminal Creatures Senior Communication Arts major Jill Fukumoto sat down with me this week to talk about her art show entitled Liminal Creatures that we have been working on together this year. The multi-media show uses poetry, sketches, and video work to explore themes of home, family, migration, and foreignness. Moving between Hawaii and Madison, …
On Wednesday, February 18, the Advertising and Communications Career Fair 2015 will be held in Varsity Hall, Union South, from 4:00-7:00pm. All students interested in careers in the fields of media, information, communications, public relations, advertising, marketing, journalism, broadcasting, and more, are invited to attend. Media, Information & Communication Career Advisor Pam Garcia-Rivera says this career …
Last year, Milwaukee freelance journalist Martin Hintz contacted the Department of Communication Arts for research assistance. A prolific author, Hintz plans to write a biography on the pioneering war photojournalist Dickey Chapelle. The nearby Wisconsin Historical Society hosts the Dickey Chapelle archive, so he sought out Communication Arts and its graduate students. Casey Long and Nora Stone, in their …