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Ashley Carter accepts her best paper award from a woman onstage at the conference.

Paper trail: With impressive research output, CMCI becoming 鈥榦ne of the best-represented programs鈥 at influential media conference

Aug. 16, 2023

CMCI earned seven Best Paper Awards at the 2023 AEJMC conference in the college鈥檚 continued strong showing at this influential event.

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Is it Times for limits on A.I. and the news?

Aug. 14, 2023

A CMCI expert explains why The New York Times is preventing ChatGPT from scraping its site鈥攁t the same time The Associated Press signed a deal with OpenAI.

Rick Stevens speaks at a conference table, surrounded by GI Joe and Transformers action figures.

Stand-up comics: At Fan Expo, exploring how superheroes reflect, inform cultural values

Aug. 1, 2023

CMCI鈥檚 unique media studies programs are challenging students to become critics of culture and 鈥渒ind of as evangelists鈥 for improving society.

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This just in(novation): NSF grant is good news for researchers studying journalism, recommender systems

July 6, 2023

A CMCI researcher is part of a team that received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to study how recommender systems shape the news we see online.

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For brands, when it comes to Pride month, you鈥檙e either in or you鈥檙e out

June 7, 2023

Thought leaders say when brands try to please everyone, they vex everyone. Instead, identify your customer and cater to that audience.

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Information science professor wins educational research award

May 10, 2023

Ricarose Roque, assistant professor in the Department of Information Science was recognized by the American Educational Research Association for her work focusing on technology and education.

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How 鈥榩atient influencers鈥 may be misleading patients on prescription drugs

March 16, 2023

A new study sheds light on the growing phenomenon of 鈥減atient influencers,鈥 confirming they work closely with pharmaceutical companies and routinely provide advice about drugs to followers.

Video footage can play a crucial part in cases such as the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols.

How video evidence is presented in court can sway juror perception

Feb. 17, 2023

Video footage can play a crucial part in cases such as the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols. Depending on how the evidence is presented, among other factors, jurors can perceive events in a video in different ways. CU expert Sandra Ristovska explains on The Conversation.

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Communication department celebrates 12 national awards

Dec. 12, 2022

The Department of Communication takes home 12 awards from the 2022 National Communication Association Convention.

A Boulder County home still stands after being burned during the Marshall Fire, which began Dec. 30, 2021. Thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed by the fire. Photo by Anthony Albidrez, Boulder Reporting Lab

Journalism students investigate long-term impacts of the Marshall Fire

Dec. 12, 2022

Seven CMCI journalism students, with the help of established journalists in the field, are shining a light on the undercovered impacts of the Marshall Fire through a recently published investigation.

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