News from the Department of Media Studies.


 

Faculty Now: Summer/Fall 2017

July 10, 2017

Faculty updates

Stevens and CMCI alumnus Christopher Bell pose with Stevens’ son after Bell was awarded the Popular Culture Educator of the Year award in the higher education category.

A comic con-versation with a Media Studies professor

July 6, 2017

J. Richard Stevens is an associate professor of Media Studies in the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information, where he studies popular culture, new media theory and digital media skills. He contributed to the book “Articulating the Action Figure: Essays on the Toys and Their Messages”,...

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Nabil Echchaibi featured in the Guardian

June 20, 2017

Media Studies' founding chair opines powerfully on Islam. "My existential crisis as a Muslim man haunts me to the core of my being. Amid the horrendous nihilism of Isis, the dull orthodoxy of self-proclaimed custodians of Islam and the culture of fear in the west which sees everything Muslim as pure evil, I seek an answer to a simple and unasked question: how does it feel to be Muslim today?"

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CMCI grad students and faculty participate in MediaLive 2017

May 18, 2017

Several graduate students and faculty members from the College of Media, Communication and Information were on hand this week to take part in the ongoing MediaLive 2017 . Hosted by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and curated by Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance PhD student Maya Livio ,...

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CMCI’s MAPE Showcase gives students a chance to share thesis projects

April 20, 2017

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Media Studies celebrated its first graduating class of Media and Public Engagement master’s students during the MAPE showcase on April 11. The event, held at Impact Hub Boulder, gave students a chance to present long-term projects focused on public engagement with fellow students,...

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MAPE students prepare for annual showcase

April 6, 2017

Students in the Media and Public Engagement MA program are set to display their semester-long projects this Tuesday, April 11 at the Media and Public Engagement Showcase . With its first graduating class, the MAPE program, part of the Media Studies Department , will offer the public a chance to...

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Reporting in the Age of Alternative Facts: a free one day conference

March 30, 2017

The University of Colorado Boulder will bring together journalists, media scholars, lawyers, archivists, photographers and filmmakers for a one-day conference on Saturday, April 15. The conference, which is free and open to the public, will feature sessions from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities building.

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Faculty-in-Residence Summer Term (FIRST) courses

March 6, 2017

Recognized scholars and teachers prominent in their respective academic disciplines from across the United States and the world join the ranks of the University of Colorado Boulder's summer faculty. Registration for summer school starts March 8. Log in to MyCUInfo to enroll. CMCI FIRST Courses Special Topics: Latino Media in...

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Noted journalist Lee Fang to visit and present at CU Boulder on Feb. 2

Jan. 30, 2017

Political journalist Lee Fang will visit the CU Boulder campus to talk with College of Media, Communication and Information students. On February 2 from 6:30-7:30 p.m., Fang will give a presentation titled “Investigative Journalism: From the Obama Era to Trump." The talk is free and open to the public but...

Announcing CMCI's Graduate Student Association

Jan. 17, 2017

The graduate student body of CMCI has officially formed a student association to support the needs of CMCI graduate students.

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