Native advertising's very effectiveness can make it deceptive and endangering to journalistic credibility, say a group of journalists and advertising and public relations executives interviewed by CMCI researchers.
Vargo, who uses computer science methods to investigate social data, explained how the belief that vaccines cause autism spread on social media. Watch a full video of his presentation.
Palen, Chair of the Department of Information Science, published a policy article in the journal "Science" discussing the challenges and promises of using social media data to study disasters.
Continuing a tradition established in 2012, University of Colorado Boulder faculty members, students and staff presented their research at the 2016 Denver Comic Con, touching on topics such as gender representation in popular media, action figure culture and the racial politics in recent Superman comics.
Five CMCI researchers are presenting papers at the top conference in the field of human-centered computing. From gamification to death on Facebook, here are short summaries of their research.
According to a new study by Erin Schauster, blurred boundaries between advertising and public relations professions–due to new roles in social media–may pose a challenge for educators in those fields.
Laurie Gries, an assistant professor of communication, has won a 2016 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award for her book, Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics, which explores how images often spread and change across different media, genres and locations.
Christian Hammons, an instructor in CU-Boulder’s departments of Critical Media Practices and Anthropology, has received a grant to design and launch a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal called Mimesis: The Journal of Documentary and Ethnographic Media . The journal will be ground-breaking in its use of multimedia. “Many academic journals include...
Thanks for your interest in CU Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information. We welcome your questions or comments and will respond as quickly as possible.
