Communication

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Sexual Privacy in the Era of AI: Hasinoff Advocates for Consent-Based Reform

June 25, 2025

Amy Hasinoff, CU Denver associate professor of Communication, explores how AI technologies that generate synthetic sexual images are outpacing current legal protections. In her latest piece for the Gender Policy Report , she argues that preventing image-based sexual abuse requires consent-based standards, for both real and synthetic images. Hasinoff challenges...

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CU Denver's Prison Education Program Turns Academic Advising into Social Justice

June 25, 2025

On Friday, May 30, CU Denver Prison Education Program (PEP) Academic Advisor, Shana Medah , and CU Denver PEP alum, Sean Mueller , delivered a presentation entitled, “Hope and Redemption: Advising Incarcerated and Recently Released Students for a Transformational Education.” They spoke before a packed conference room at the University...

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Communication Professor’s Book Earns National Sports History Award

June 24, 2025

Sarah Fields , professor of Communication, is co-editor of Sports Through the Lens: Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs , which received the 2024 Book Award (Anthology) from the North American Society for Sport History . The project was supported in part by CLAS, the Department of Communication, and the Office of Research Services.

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Hamilton Bean’s FCC Comments Highlighted in Communications Daily

May 20, 2025

Communications Daily is a national publication known as “the bible of the telecom industry” that covers news and analysis on the telecommunications industry. It is known for its in-depth reporting and analysis of industry trends. As cited in the story , and mentioned in his FCC comments regarding proposed changes...

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CU Denver's Prison Education Program Receives $150K Grant to Build Statewide Higher Ed Prison Coalition

May 12, 2025

With support from the ECMC Foundation, CU Denver’s Prison Education Program is spearheading the formation of a new Colorado-wide coalition to expand and enhance college access for incarcerated learners.

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Professors Mohrman and Fischer publish article on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in American Quarterly

April 8, 2025

Dr. K. Mohrman (Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies) and Mia Fischer (Associate Professor, Department of Communication) publish “‘As-Salaam-Alaikum, Bitches!’: The Biopolitics of Secularism, Neoliberal Multiculturalism, and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ” in American Quarterly (Volume 77, Number 1: 105-131), the journal of record for American...

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Arizona Daily Star Article Cites Stephen J Hartnett's Research on Democratic Dissent

March 31, 2025

As Steven Goldzwig writes in his opinion piece, "We must push back against the assault on free speech," for the Arizona Daily Star . "As scholar Stephen Hartnett has explained, there is a distinction to be made between the fascist assault on elites and democratic dissent in that “democratic dissent...

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Sarah Fields Publishes Sport Photography Book

March 4, 2025

Sarah Fields recently published her co-edited anthology, Sports Through the Lens: Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs (University of Texas Press) . Included in this volume is Fields' chapter “Moment of Victory: Brandi Chastain and the 1999 World Cup.” Featuring photos from across centuries and continents, this book is especially noteworthy...

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Hamilton Bean and Colleagues Publish Cross-National Research on Mobile Public Warning

March 4, 2025

Hamilton Bean and colleagues recently published " Mobile Public Warning in Japan and the United States: A Sister Cities Collaboration " in Frontiers in Communication . As part of a special issue on "Cross-Boundary Disaster Communication: Building Systems Thinking and Breaking Traditional Divisions in the Field," the study described how...

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Mia Fischer, CU Denver CLAS Professor in Communication

The Oregonian Quotes Mia Fischer in "How Riley Gaines became the right’s darling on anti-trans issues in sports: Analysis"

Feb. 25, 2025

“There’s clearly a lot of media training that these people have received,” says Fischer, noting that the right-wing’s selection of white, traditionally feminine girls and young women is likely intentional. “If we think about traditional gender norms, they fulfill all these signifiers that we traditionally associate with feminine white athletes...

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