Communication

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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, lead author of new research

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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Hamilton Bean's Research Cited in FCC Report and Order on Multilingual Emergency Alerting

Jan. 31, 2025

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau's January 8, 2025 Report and Order advances the availability of Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) for persons with limited English proficiency. The Report and Order requires commercial mobile service providers that participate in WEA to implement multilingual templates that alert...

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Hartnett and Community Colleagues Address Prison Issues

Jan. 6, 2025

On December 5, Stephen J. Hartnett, professor of communication and director of the CU Denver College-in-Prison Program , delivered a 90-minute presentation on "The Prison-Industrial Complex as a Driver of Public Health" before the Touro University of Public Health. Hartnett was joined by community partners Carol Peeples, the Director of...

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Sarah Fields weighs in on 'Fairness in sports'

“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...

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Communication Field Recognizes Dr. Sonja K Foss for Lifetime Impact on Communication Studies

Communication Field Recognizes Dr. Sonja K Foss for Lifetime Impact on Communication Studies

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...

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