This fall, the media and cultural studies group blog Antenna: Responses to Media & Culture celebrates its two-year anniversary. Operated and edited by the graduate students and faculty in the Media and Cultural Studies area of the Department of Communication Arts, the website attracts contributions not only from faculty and students across the department but …
Professor Karma R. Chávez has just been selected as the 2011-12 recipient of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Humanities’ First Book Project Award. A very competitive process, the First Book program is an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that supports the efforts of one tenure-track junior faculty member per year, …
At the 2011 Department of Communication Arts Awards Luncheon, Lee de Boer (B.A. ’74) received the second annual Outstanding Alumnus Award for his many accomplishments in television, cable, and new media. Perhaps his biggest accomplishment was his role as one of the principal architects of Time-Warner’s Home Box Office (HBO) expansion. De Boer led the …
Too often the mention of summer internships conjures up images of endless hours of copying, answering multiple phone lines, and fetching coffee. But an increasing number of Comm Arts interns are making tweets instead of copies and answering Facebook posts rather than phones. From Twitter to Tublr, from video to text, Comm Arts interns are …
Are you thinking about introducing your 70 year old grandmother, mother, or friend to Facebook? Do you think you’ll be successful? According to graduate student Michael Braun’s (BA ’06, MA ’11) research on older adult’s use of social networking sites, three factors will help predict your success rate. His findings suggest that older adults are more …
With the support of the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates (MIU), the Comm Arts Department will offer a new digital media production class next fall. Introduction to Digital Media Production, a hands-on project-based course, will teach students basic digital media production skills in areas such as web design and programming, high-definition video shooting/editing, digital audio production, …
Carla Pentimone, a Communication Arts graduate and forward on the national champion women’s hockey team, recently received congratulations from College of Letters & Science Associate Dean Susan Zaeske. Pentimore, who received the team’s 2010-2011 Most Inspiring Badger Player Award, will be entering the graduate program in communication at Northwestern University in the fall. On graduation day she …
Undergraduate Communication Arts majors Bobby Gryzynger & Nickolas Good were recognized in Year of the Arts Student Awards at the 2011 Awards in the Creative Arts. The Creative Arts Awards, curated by the UW-Madison Arts Institute, recognized students, faculty, and staff in the arts for their excellence in three areas — creative inquiry, outreach, and professional …
Thanks to an historic agreement between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the government of Taiwan, the film archive of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research will receive a trove of 35mm films representing some of the best work of the New Taiwanese Cinema. The donation was first announced in November 2010 during Chancellor Biddy Martin’s visit to Taiwan and …
In Madison to present their newest films at the 13th AnnualWisconsin Film Festival, independent film directors Brett Haley and Alex Ross Perry spoke to Communication Arts students about their experiences in writing, producing, and directing independent films. Conversing with undergraduate students in Faculty Associate Erik Gunneson’s Comm Arts 467: Cinematography & Sound Recording and Comm Arts 659: …