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Summer Term 2016 – Register Now!

This week, registration is officially open for Summer Term 2016 courses! Seniors, juniors, and sophomores can enroll now, and freshmen can enroll on Friday. Taking summer courses is a great way to: Communication Arts is offering thirteen courses to choose from this summer: To learn more about each class, visit commarts.wisc.edu/courses or meet with our …

Radio Preservation Task Force Conference

If one wanted to know what a couple of dozen people with ties to UW-Madison Communication Arts were doing February 26-27, they’d need look no further than the Radio Preservation Task Force Conference. The conference, hosted at the Library of Congress and the University of Maryland, was titled “Save America’s Radio Heritage” and focused on …

Two Films Premiere at SXSW 2016!

What do the films Silicon Cowboys (2016) and The Smart Studios Story (2016) have in common? Quite a lot, actually! For one, both are documentaries about start-ups in the early 1980s that had significant impacts in their respective industries before faltering in the 2000s. Secondly, the filmmakers are connected to UW-Madison and the Department of …

National Customer Rage Survey Videos

We’ve all been there: sitting at home or at work, phone to our ear, listening to the third, fourth, or fifth loop of smooth jazz music play over the line as we wait for customer service. After what seems to be an eon, a representative responds… only to immediately transfer us to someone else. The …

JJ Murphy Receives Named Professorship

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 …

Karma Chávez Receives Two NCA Awards, Including 2015 Córdova-Puchot Scholar of the Year

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 …

We the 350: Stories of Poverty, Racism, and Incarceration in Wisconsin

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 …

A Keynote by Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson

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 …