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. …
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Alumnus Ari Lubet and Communication Arts at the Peabody Awards
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 …
Comm Arts Apparel Sale
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 …
Congratulations Communication Arts Graduates of 2018!
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 …
NEH-Funded Project Explores the History of Educational Radio
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 …
New Research on TV Binge-Watching Behaviors
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 …
Filmmaker Damien Chazelle Visits UW–Madison
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 …
Associate Professor Sara McKinnon Receives Bonnie Ritter Book Award for Her Book “Gendered Asylum”
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 …
“Not According to Plan” — the New Book from Assistant Professor Maria Belodubrovskaya
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 …
Marissa Fernholz and Caelyn Randall To Receive Campus-Wide TA Awards
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 …