It was July 2016. The days were sunny and warm, and some people were out and about playing Pokémon Go. A lot of them, in fact. For graduate students James Alex Bonus, Alanna Peebles, and Irene Sarmiento, this provided a perfect research opportunity. Pokémon Go, the mobile game in which players traverse their real-world surroundings …
Communication Arts Professor Emerita Michele Hilmes has received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from the Society For Cinema and Media Studies! The Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) is a prominent scholarly organization with nearly three thousand members from thirty-eight countries. The organization holds a conference each year for scholars to share their work, …
Registration is officially open for Summer Term 2017 courses! 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 Comm Arts advisors to find the best summer course for you! Additional information can be found here: https://summer.wisc.edu/uw-madison-students/
It was recently announced that Assistant Professor Lori Kido Lopez will be the 2017 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies! The Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), founded in 1979, is committed to research, teaching, and service in the field of Asian American Studies, and regularly holds …
It’s the year 2017 and crowdfunding films has become commonplace. Making a good film almost always requires at least a small financial investment, and sites like Kickstarter.com and Indiegogo.com make it easy for both filmmakers and donors to fund projects. Given the utility and real-world application of crowdfunding, the capstone film production course at UW-Madison, …
Last summer marked the beginning of a new construction project in Vilas Hall’s Instructional Media Center (IMC). Over the course of several months, the brand new room known as the Living Room Lab took shape and was completed in November 2016. The Living Room Lab occupies a space that used to be comprised of several …
The teaching assistants of the Department of Communication Arts have always prided themselves on expansive knowledge and dedicated instruction. Yet few, if any, have ever been officially recognized for their efforts on the campus level until now. On Tuesday, February 7th, Communication Arts graduate student Taylor Miller was among the recipients of the 2016 Campus-Wide …
On December 8th, Communication Arts Assistant Professor Lori Kido Lopez gave her talk Limits of Racebending in the Struggle for Asian American Representation in Helen C. White Hall. The talk was part of the Burdick-Vary Lecture Series Asian Americans and the Pleasures of Fantasy sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities. Professor Lopez is currently a Race, Ethnicity …
Most people are familiar with the Peabody Awards, the distinguished awards given for a variety of media since 1940. What they might not know is that on November 15th Peabody announced it is launching The Media Center, which will be a media production division and scholarly research center of the Peabody Awards. What’s more is …
Lloyd Bitzer, professor emeritus of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin died October 13, 2016, at his family home in Verona, Wisconsin. He was born in Ohio, attended high school in Illinois, received his B.A. from Southern Illinois University, and his PhD from the University of Iowa. He came to the University of Wisconsin …