Three PhD candidates in Communication Science started the New Year with single-authored journal articles. Michael Braun published a research paper on Computers in Human Behavior (Vol., 29, 673–680). The paper, “Obstacles to social networking website …
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CA 100 Speech Contest – Fall 2012
On the evening of December 12, the top 21 persuasive speakers enrolled in the fall semester of Communication Arts 100 competed in the CA 100 Speech Contest. The speech contest is a long-standing tradition at …
Major Screenwriting Conference to be held at UW-Madison
From August 20-22, 2013, the UW-Madison Communication Arts Department will host the 6th International Screenwriting Research Network Conference. Founded in 2006, the Screenwriting Research Network brings together scholars, writers and researchers from across the globe …
Murphy/Warhol
Scholar and filmmaker J.J. Murphy’s recent book, The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol (University of California Press, 2012), has been winning critical praise and stimulating interest in Professor Murphy’s own experimental film …
Michael Xenos Awarded Major Research Grant from the Spencer Foundation
We hear a lot about the use of social media in political campaigns and movements. But do tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube actually encourage young people to get more involved in their communities and …
Making Jokes for a Living: How to Write (and Produce) Television Comedy
Comm Arts major and UW grad Ben Karlin (BA ’93) will be on campus this Friday, October 26th with his former college roommate Josh Bycel (BA ’93) to talk about their careers in television. At …
Learning by Doing: Comm Arts Student Breaks Into TV News with a Lot of Hard Work and a Little Help from Some Badgers
What did you do last summer? Communication Arts major and budding television news reporter Elsa Robins, for one, was hard at work, building up her on- and off-camera experience and setting the stage for her …
New Comm Arts Prof. Derek Johnson Takes Inventive Approach to Media Franchises & Video Games
Unless you’re a media and cultural studies scholar or industry insider, you’re probably only familiar with the products of media franchises, such as the Spiderman movies and Marvel comic books. But Derek Johnson, one of the …
Recent Comm Arts PhDs
The UW-Madison Department of Communication Arts is not only one of the most esteemed undergraduate programs in the country for the study of communications, it also offers one of the premier graduate programs in the …
Comm Arts Welcomes New Faculty
The Department of Communication Arts is thrilled to announce the addition of a number of new faculty members for the 2012-2013 school year. Professor Maria Belodubrovskaya: Among Professor Maria Belodubrovskaya’s research interests are media history, film …