Ralina Joseph Awarded Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
We congratulate Dr. Ralina Joseph, 2022 recipient of the Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award! Each year, The Graduate School, with assistance from the President’s Office, sponsors this award honoring outstanding mentoring of graduate students by faculty. Students and…
Note from the Chair
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder Dear Friends, I hope you’re enjoying some old-fashioned fresh air and sunshine this spring. I don’t need to tell you that it has been…
UW Com Welcomes Assistant Professor Dr. Timeka Tounsel
Dr. Timeka Tounsel will join our faculty in Autumn 2022. Dr. Tounsel’s research and teaching examines Black (digital) popular culture, audience studies, and feminist media studies. Specifically, her research considers the stories that mass media tell about Black women, how…
Introducing Megan Buxton
We are happy to introduce our new Outreach and Alumni Relations Manager, Megan Buxton! Megan received her Bachelors of Arts in Communication from Boise State University and completed her Masters in Education at Texas State University. She has worked in…
Covert Influence: How Undisclosed Election Campaigns on Digital Media Steal American Democracy
ABOUT THE EVENT Do digital platforms function as stealth media, a system that enables the deliberate operations of undisclosed political campaigns’ imperceptible targeting and furtive messaging? What impact do such political disinformation campaigns make in the elections? By utilizing a…
UW Com Welcomes Assistant Professor Dr. Yuan Hsiao
UW Com is delighted to welcome Dr. Yuan Hsiao as our newest Assistant Professor. Hsiao will offer courses in Political Communication and Communication Technology & Society. In addition to his teaching, Hsiao is a researcher, a sociologist, and an activist….
Media Choices And Biases In Online Information
ABOUT THE EVENT The abundance of media options is a central feature of today’s information environment. The currentmedia landscape is extremely decentralized, with information simultaneously flowing through manyparallel channels (i.e., the web, social media, TV). In this talk I will…
For the Black Girls Who Don’t Code: Tracing the Black Feminist Technoculture
ABOUT THE EVENT Coding has been positioned by many as a corrective or missing tool to usurping the racism that has precluded Black women’s inclusion in the digital revolution. However, Black girls and women have long possessed the technological expertise…
Technology of the oppressed: Inequity and the digital mundane in favelas of Brazil
ABOUT THE EVENT Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela residents engage with technology in their everyday lives. Their stories reveal the structural violence of the information age. But they also show how…
Something is Rotten in the United States of Denmark
The Transatlantic Bad Influence of American Political Rhetoric and its Rhetorical Remedies ABOUT THE EVENT Although Donald Trump himself is no longer in the White House, Trumpism has far from disappeared. On the contrary, the impact of its braggadocious populism…