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“Maybe it’s because of the nice, sanitized way in which we consume sport as an audience,” says Sarah Fields, who studies how sports intersects with American culture. She says sports thrive on “our innate, maybe human desire — but certainly American desire — for fairness.” “It’s a standardized field with...

The field of communication is celebrating the profound contributions of Dr. Sonja K. Foss, Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Foss was the founding chair of the Department of Communication at the International College Beijing in 1999. Since joining the National Communication Association (NCA) in...

Dr. Fischer recently published a pedagogy article on “ Trans of Color Histories, Visibility, and Violence in The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson ” in Films for the Feminist Classroom (Issue 12.2, Summer 2024). Reflecting on teaching her upper-level seminar COMM/WGST 4660/5660 Queer Media Studies here at CU...

Based on years of archival research at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Stephen J. Hartnett from the Department of Communication has published “‘ Something Uniquely Sinister in U.S. History’: New Evidence on the Truman Administration’s 1951 Investigation into the China Lobby ,” in Presidential Studies Quarterly 54:3 (September 2024):...

Department of Communication Professor and Chair, Hamilton Bean, has a new volume out published by Naval Institute Press. Nimitz's Newsman: Waldo Drake and the Navy's Censored War in the Pacific reveals the inside story of the rise of Navy public relations in World War II.

Associate Professor of Communication, Amy Hasinoff, spoke with Vox about new AI "nudification" apps, which young people are using to share fake nude pictures of their classmates--a form of "image-based sexual abuse." Hasinoff recommended regulating the apps instead of making the sharing of fake photos a crime, "It just feels...

Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, co-wrote an article for The Conversation regarding the Oct. 4th national test message.The message was expected to state, “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert system. No action is needed.” Bean instead suggests that action is, in fact,...

“College programs in prison provide students with the tools to change them from incarcerated people into tax-paying citizens. It is fiscally, ethically, and logically superior to the way we currently do things. And most importantly, it reduces recidivism,” said formerly incarcerated Communication Lecturer, Ben Boyce. Commentary - Educating Incarcerated Individuals:...

Communication Professor Stephen Hartnett knows that education can transform lives. In this op-ed he highlights the partnership between CU Denver and the Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) which brings college classes to prisons and changed the life of Ben Boyce. He wrote, “The former addict and prisoner became Dr. Boyce,...

After a semester without implementing them, Communication Associate Professor Amy A. Hasinoff has decided that penalties for late work mainly create intense anxiety for students and may not provide that much payoff for instructors. She wrote, “As the pandemic wears on, conversations about pedagogy in higher ed have been turning...