media studies
View photos and learn more about the Gender, Media and Religion Conference, which brought together scholars of religion, media studies, gender and sexuality on Jan. 7-11.- Leysia Palen, professor and founding department chair of Information Science, was recognized at CHI 2015 with a SIGCHI Social Impact award. In her acceptance talk, she discussed Frontiers in Crisis Informatics. Watch now.SIGCHI (Special
Faculty, students and their families gathered in Macky Auditorium to recognize 130 graduates from the Department of Communication and journalism and mass communication program.
Could cooperative economic principles create a more democratic Internet? More than a thousand people, including entrepreneurs, scholars, and activists gathered for the Platform Cooperativism conference at the New School in New York to discuss this question.
Parents are more reactive than proactive when providing political influence and opportunities for their children, according to a study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The study, published in the journal Social Science Quarterly, found that political engagement independently pursued by youth spurs parents to realize that childrearing extends to the civic realm. It also is the first study to show intentional political parenting as an outcome of family interaction rather than a stimulus.