Research stories
- This year, the pop megastar has become a regular at Kansas City Chiefs NFL games, but not everyone is happy about seeing her on screen. Teaching Associate Professor Jamie Skerski gives her take on why Swift is facing such a backlash, and how it reflects a boys-only culture in the world of football.
- Romance authors were early adopters of digital self-publishing. A new book explores how their willingness to experiment and their close networks helped them thrive when the publishing industry shunned their work.
- In its ongoing conquest of legacy media studios, the tech industry made use of a very old playbook.
- “The U.S. news media has blood on its hands from 2016,” Mike McDevitt says. Will 2024 be different?
- A four-day conference on the rise of religious nationalism—and the media’s role in the spread of news and meaning around these topics—comes to Boulder in January.
- Generative A.I. tools and copyright law are intersecting in the 1928 “Steamboat Willie” cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse. An expert in tech ethics says it’s just the start.
- There’s no playbook for covering mass shootings. But that may soon change, as Elizabeth Skewes studies how the media can tell the right story—by being more considerate to victims and survivors.
- Jo Marras Tate studied biology to work in science. She got her PhD in communication in order to mediate change.
- Weaving is a fitting love of Steven Frost, whose work as an artist and professor is all about tying seemingly disparate things together.
- Zoom’s CEO said remote work limits trust and innovation, but CMCI experts said such tools can be effective—if applied correctly.