Comm Arts professor Jonathan Gray has published a new book that provides an overview of the academic field of television studies, including a survey of the discipline’s origins, central ideas, and key thinkers and works. The book, co-authored with Amanda Lotz of the University of Michigan, is suitably titled Television Studies and is included as …
Internships have become one of the most valuable resources available today for undergraduate students preparing for successful careers, especially in the media and entertainment industries. These positions are not only a form of on-the-job training, giving young Badgers real world experience that enhances their classroom learning, but they also allow students to make valuable industry …
Every semester a number of Communication Arts majors are placed in professional internships. Comm Arts alumni have helped to make many of these internships possible, reaching out to help students at a formative stage in their career. Students, alumni, and faculty alike agree that an internship can be one of the most valuable experiences undergraduates …
A team of five UW-Madison students, including Comm Arts major Emily Christopher, has been selected as one of three finalists in a nationwide marketing competition sponsored by American Eagle Outfitters (AE), a prominent clothing retailer with over 930 stores in North America. Each semester, AE offers a marketing case competition that focuses on a different …
UW Comm Arts alum Stuart Brotman recently co-authored an article on this issue. Net neutrality is set to move into the headlines as the new FCC Open Internet Rules, in effect since November, begin to make an impact.
On Thursday evening, Comm Arts Rhetoric professor Rob Asen joined UW colleagues Nan Enstad from History and Keith Woodward from Geography on a panel discussing “Beyond Zuccotti Park: Why the Occupy Movement Matters.” Prompted by moderator Judy Davidoff of The Isthmus, the three debated the significance and impact of the Occupy movement and took questions …
Congratulations to all you Communication Arts majors graduating this semester! More than 60 of you will receive your diploma on Sunday, and we in the department want to recognize your achievement and wish you well with the next stage of your life. We enjoyed getting to know you. Please stay in touch — join us on …
The Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research (WCFTR), a partnership between the Communication Arts department and the Wisconsin Historical Society, has been awarded a $200,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant will fund a project titled “Investigation of Cellulose Nitrate Motion Picture Film Chemical Decomposition & Associated Fire Risk.” This project will …
For the second year in a row, Communication Arts graduate student Kyurim Kyoung won a Top Student Paper prize from the National Communications Association. At the 97th Annual Convention in New Orleans last month, her paper, titled “The Making of Deliberative Citizens: Roles of Reflexivity and Relational Citizenship Identity,” was one of four papers that garnered …
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 …