Media Studies

Students across CMCI find ways to bring together their personal interests and academic pursuits. Since the college’s founding, we have showcased this diverse collection of student work.

CMCI was founded amid change—an answer to how we could best organize the various communication- and information-related disciplines at CU Boulder in ways that enabled faculty collaboration and student success.

For A.I. to be useful, it needs to grow alongside communicators—not replace them. CMCI experts share their vision for a workplace with ChatGPT and other tools.

A PhD student and documentary filmmaker is trying to understand how leaving the country influences how Black American men form their identities.

Media studies students developed and pitched concepts to Hollywood showrunners—with an assist from A.I.

CMCI in D.C. is helping students discover new passions and grow—personally and professionally—as they prepare for careers in media.

See examples of CMCI student work.

This year, we’re celebrating the centennial of the Department of Journalism, established April 21,1922, by the Board of Regents. As we have explored archival documents dating to the 1920s, it’s been fun to go through photos and see the changes in technology (and fashion!) over the past 100 years.

Master’s student Audrey Mayes grew up in rural Texas and knows firsthand how hard it is for busy workers to consume news. So she created a podcast, Where the Aud Things Are, to elevate the rural perspective on wildlife issues in Colorado.

Updates from our all-star faculty of professors, researchers, producers and innovators for fall 2021.