A proud tradition since 1998, the annual Thomas M. Scheidel Faculty Lecture celebrates the remarkable achievements of Professor Scheidel in scholarship, teaching, and academic administration. Every year, the UW Department of Communication brings a notable speaker from outside the University to Seattle for an engaging discussion on the latest trends in the field of communication. … Read More
Recently, COM and JPIC students were treated to a special class panel on “Black press in Seattle, past, present and future.” The panel featured Omari Salisbury of Converge Media, Chris Bennett of The Seattle Medium, and JPIC alum, Chardonnay Beaver, whose family owns and runs the news outlet, The Facts. Salisbury, Bennett, and Beaver shared … Read More
Dr. Yingdan Lu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University discusses the rise of social media and the unprecedented challenges posed to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors.
The National Communication Association, one of our discipline’s largest scholarly organizations, will be convening this month in Maryland and UW Communication will be there in force. If you plan to be at NCA this year, be sure to connect with us! UW Communication scholar presentations: Leah Ceccarelli: panelist on “Urgent, Precarious, and Impure: Rhetoric and … Read More
This spring, the Department of Communication welcomed organizational communication scholar Dr. Dawna I. Ballard of the University of Texas, Austin, who delivered the Department’s annual Scheidel Lecture. A departmental tradition for 25 years, the Scheidel Lecture invites scholars conducting cutting edge communication research to share their work with the broader UW Communication community. In her … Read More
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 user-based, real-time ad tracking tool and “reverse engineering” techniques, independent from digital platforms, Kim’s research … Read More
When: November 18, 2021, 2:30 to 4 p.m.Where: CMU 126 Nikki Usher, PhD, will discuss her new book, News for the Rich, White, and Blue: How Place and Power Distort American Journalism. The book considers how larger structural inequalities and political tensions in American life are instantiated through and by the news media. Dr. Usher argues … Read More
Greetings to all UW Department of Communication graduates, families, and friends! While we weren’t able to gather on our beautiful campus for a traditional ceremony, the Department planned a special virtual graduation celebration (see below for ways that you can still participate). The Class of 2021 endured extraordinary circumstances, and we were grateful to celebrate … Read More
In this Spotlight by the UW Center for Journalism, Media, and Democracy, Dr. Kathleen Beckers discusses how public opinion is portrayed in U.S. broadcast news: Social and political issues make up the lion’s share of news coverage, drawing individuals’ attention to public opinion and policy implications of these issues. However, in recent years, public opinion … Read More
From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor Featuring Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd In the third COM Spring colloquium, Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd will discuss two related case studies to explore how Black publics online have shifted racial humor as a resistance strategy to respond to white femininity and its deployment of the police state. … Read More