Research

  • Jed Brubaker helping students
    When Jed Brubaker established the Digital Legacy Clinic—to help people make a plan for their data after their deaths—he saw it as a perfect blend of teaching and public service.
  • A screen capture of John Oliver with the cover of a textbook as the graphic.
    When Last Week Tonight wanted to talk about cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, its researchers called communication historian Josh Shepperd.
  • Because of the multidisciplinary nature of their work—and their fearlessness in confronting the biggest problems—CMDI faculty are regularly featured in local and national media. Here are 10 times over the past decade when major news outlets have
  • Faculty experts Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Caitlin Charlet, Hong Tien Vu and Morgan Young
    When it comes to sustainability, individual actions aren’t enough. The same is true for how we look for solutions, so we asked a group of CMDI experts how collaboration might save the day.
  • hand coloring in "Lo Que Cuesta"
    Mining companies are positioning themselves as heroes in the transition to sustainability. A coloring book illustrated by a CMDI professor is throwing shade on the idea.
  • Sandra Ristovska
    Sandra Ristovska’s research into video evidence and deepfakes is getting further refined during a prestigious fellowship at Stanford.
  • handcuffed hands holding a phone that says no service
    The histories of how media technologies have been introduced in U.S. prisons offer clues as to the government’s dramatic rise in spending on the carceral system.
  • A still from a cartoon showing a baby deer nuzzling its mother's dead body.
    Children aren’t just blank slates—they create meaning from the media they experience. An expert says that’s a reason to think about how we show themes like violence and death.
  • patterned person figures standing together and a simple looking figure standing alone to the side
    A new book from a journalism expert examines the news media’s role in identity and belonging in a volatile moment of American history.
  • FBI agent wearing sunglasses, a swat party hat and holding a red balloon in a gold frame
    Memes on their own are good entertainment. Studying them as a collection, and seeing some of the themes they share, is no laughing matter, a PhD student says.
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