CMCI in the News
- Casey Fiesler: Over the past four years, as I’ve studied online fandom platforms, I’ve heard from thousands of AO3 users, some of whom have described the platform and the community that surrounds it as having literally saved their lives.
- A journalism initiative to expand coverage of Western water issues is launching this month at the University of Colorado Boulder with support from a two-year, $700,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation
- “Richest Hill,” a new podcast from Montana Public Radio, made me care intensely about the former copper-mining boomtown of Butte, Montana—and urgently want to understand it better. Reported and written by Nora Saks and edited and produced by Nick Mott (MJour'18) and Eric Whitney, “Richest Hill” has a mood of straightforward friendliness, but it’s also full of surprises.
- That's the voice of Pat Ferrucci on the TED stage. Pat teaches journalism at the University of Colorado.
- "The narrative of the story did not resonate with the mainstream," said Angie Chuang, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who has studied the media reaction to Binghamton's mass murder. "It was
- University Libraries put out the call via social media, and the campus community responded. The question: Who are your favorite female storytellers?
For her entry of Zora Neale Hurston’s "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Alaynah Penalosa (College of Media, Communication and Information, class of 2020) won the raffle prize of a Future Is Female wall calendar, poster and postcard set. - A day of professional development and networking was had by more than 200 attendees at the 17th Women Succeeding Symposium at Ƶ Boulder’s University Memorial Center on Feb. 22. The popular event is held by the Faculty Council Women’ Committee and rotates locations between the Ƶ system campuses. This year’s symposium theme was: women engaged and on the move.
With an introduction by Polly Bugros McLean, associate professor of media studies at Ƶ Boulder, Anne Libby took the stage midday to receive the Elizabeth D. Gee Lectureship Award and give this year’s talk. - If democracy is to recapture the world’s imagination, it will have to show it can deliver a better way of life than the autocrats
- Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, a researcher at University of Colorado Boulder who studies gender recognition algorithms, believes that the government should work toward actual policies to hold agencies accountable for their AI development, not just technical guidelines:
- Savannah Sellers, a University of Colorado alumna and co-host of NBC's Snapchat show "Stay Tuned," will deliver the spring commencement address, the university announced this week.