Welcome, students! The fall semester is right around the corner and many of you have just moved in, recently switched apartments, or have been enjoying summer in Madison, awaiting the arrival of the new semester. We look forward to seeing you in Communication Arts courses and around campus, and wish you the best of luck …
The winners of the 77th Peabody Awards were recently announced. The Peabodys are the oldest award for electronic media, and to many the most prestigious: Walter Cronkite famously noted that “you count your Emmys; you cherish your Peabodys.” They acknowledge not just excellence but “stories that matter,” and media that contributes substantially and significantly to …
Want to show off your Comm Arts pride? Need something more official for academic and professional events? Well, you’re in luck! Comm Arts has launched an online store featuring a variety of clothing options. The store is accepting orders for the next ten days and will close at 11:59pm Monday, June 11th. The two links …
The school year has come to a close and so have your times as undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. You’ve completed a degree designed to give you critical thinking skills, as well as an understanding and appreciation of many different forms of human communication. It’s time to say goodbye to friends, faculty, and beautiful …
Decades before the creation of podcasts, TED Talks, and NPR programming, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) utilized radio technology to educate and inform the American public. The important and forgotten story of this organization will be told thanks to a $217,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities 2017 Humanities Collections and …
From the spring of 2015 through the fall of 2016, Professor Karyn Riddle and four graduate students at UW–Madison researched and wrote a new paper on the nature of TV binge-watching. After a lengthy peer review process, the paper will be published in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture in the coming months. Notably, …
The UW-Cinematheque and the Department of Communication Arts hosted film director Damien Chazelle on February 23-24, 2018. Chazelle, the Academy Award-winning director of La La Land, toured the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research and participated in public discussions with UW Cinematheque director Jim Healy and Professors David Bordwell and Kelley Conway. For more …
It is our great pleasure to share that Associate Professor Sara McKinnon is the winner of the Bonnie Ritter Book Award for her book Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics. The Bonnie Ritter Book Award in Feminist/Women Studies in Communication is an annual award first established in 2008, sponsored by the …
For decades, many assumed Stalin had great or total control over filmmaking in the Soviet Union. However, in her new revisionist book, Not According to Plan, Assistant Professor Maria Belodubrovskaya argues that was not the case. Instead, fascinatingly, it was empowered directors who maintained control over their films during Stalin’s rule. Professor Belodubrovskaya’s research was …
Last February, the Department of Communication Arts celebrated one of our teaching assistants for being the first in the department’s history to receive a campus-wide TA award. Now, in the following year, we are extremely proud to announce that not one, but two more of our teaching assistants will be recipients of the 2017 Campus-Wide …