As social media has become increasingly integrated into our lives, milestones traditionally practiced offline have shifted into our online lives. For example, becoming 鈥淔acebook Official鈥� with a romantic partner has become an important relationship milestone to many, carrying equal significance to moving in with one another.
Associate professor J. Richard Stevens specializes in media studies at CU Boulder and teaches 鈥淔irst Year Seminar: Comic Books and Public Pedagogy.鈥� Growing up with comic books, he was aware of the impact they had on his awareness of the world. Stevens knew analyzing comic books would be beneficial for...
Who is a mass shooter? And what can we do to stop him or her? Are the news media doing a good job covering mass shootings?In this week's episode of the Brainwaves podcast , we'll explore these questions and also look at a new tool aimed at stopping a different...
鈥淭hese co-ops are an example of how rural communities have done entrepreneurship differently,鈥� says Nathan Schneider, a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Does your profile continue on after you die? This is what Jed Brubaker, assistant professor in the Information Science department of the College of Media Communication and Information, at University of Colorado, has been studying for years. According to www.colorado.edu , he has been instrumental in helping tech companies grapple...
Recent events like the inhumane treatment of refugees at the border and the horrific mass shooting of El Paso have many asking a simple but loaded question: 鈥淲hat the hell is happening to America?鈥� This question implies not only a remarkable sense of incredulity but also an innocence that is dangerous and deadly. An innocence that hides behind a privilege of ignorance despite a long and dreadful legacy of racism.
The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it鈥檚 hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It鈥檚 also becoming more common for such institutions to prioritize integrating ethics into their CS studies, so students don鈥檛 just learn about how to build software,...
With the morality of Big Tech again called into question, schools like MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford have launched new ethics courses with fanfare . In some cases, students are even demanding such an education, says Casey Fiesler, a professor at the University of Colorado who teaches computer ethics and...
In addition to Journalism Assistant Professor Patrick Ferrucci, this podcast also features Media Studies Assistant Professor Sandra Ristovska. We regret the omission. Listen to podcast
Fake accounts are not just a spam risk: They鈥檙e essential to spreading misinformation or propaganda, as seen with the Facebook and Twitter China-based accounts that attempted to discredit the current events in Hong Kong. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not even a user experience problem or even a platform integrity problem, but one of...
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