May 10, 2021 | Marissa Plescia, Communications and Marketing Intern When Ann Abdelzaher looked at the job requirements for the College of Media’s first-ever eLearning specialist, she knew she was a perfect fit. Abdelzaher started in special education and earned her PhD in instructional technology. She then worked at Danville Area Community College as an […]
May 5, 2021 The Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching recognizes sustained excellence and innovative approaches in undergraduate teaching and contributions beyond classroom instruction that have an overall positive impact on undergraduate student learning. Amanda Ciafone, associate professor of media and cinema studies, was one of this year’s recipients. Ciafone honed her classroom skills teaching […]
Updated June 17, 2021: Congratulations to all of our student presenters! Five received awards at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, including advertising students Kenna Hansen (Outstanding), Evan Hawkins (Outstanding), Miriam Sadkhin (Honorable Mention), and Grace Tessitore (Outstanding); and media and cinema studies student Kat Williams (Honorable Mention). Students from across majors in […]
Jill Wine-Banks (BS ’64, journalism), author of The Watergate Girl, will see her memoir become a film. The book, which was released in trade paperback in March, was optioned for a film produced by and starring Katie Holmes. Wine-Banks, who won the 2019 Chicago Illini of the Year award, is the only woman to serve on the Watergate prosecution team and […]
Sal Nudo (MS ’16, journalism) recently published Far From Mars, which contains nine creative nonfiction articles about individuals who live and work in Champaign-Urbana. The pieces range from dog walkers who adore their Greyhounds to a cassette collector who hosts a local radio show and plays on-air music via the tapes he buys. Readers will also meet […]
April 12, 2021 | Da Yeon Eom, Communications and Marketing Intern Traveling across eight time zones in nine countries didn’t stop Michelle Floyd from earning her master’s degree in strategic brand communication. While creating campaigns for class, she also competed at five Olympic-level softball tournaments and spent two professional softball seasons in Italy. Enrolling in […]
Email address: mz44@illinois.edu RESEARCH INTERESTS Maggie’s research is at the intersection of computational social science, HCI and social media, combining natural language processing and computer vision methods as well as experiments to look into the media effect on people’s opinions and behavior. Recent Publications/Presentations Zhang, M. and Ng, Y.M.M. (2023) #TrendingNow: How Twitter trending topics impact […]
For his final project in Associate Professor Charles “Stretch” Ledford’s JOUR 215: Multimedia Reporting course in Fall 2020, journalism student Owen Henderson created a piece on the Lory Theater in Highland, Illinois. Ledford helped his student submit it as a freelance piece to the Belleville News-Democrat. Henderson worked with the newspaper’s multimedia producer to get supplementary […]
The Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising faculty members and Institute of Communications Research doctoral students participated as moderators, panelists, and research paper presenters at the American Academy of Advertising annual conference, March 18-20, 2021. Their research topics included chatbot advertising, online ethical behaviors, advanced computational advertising research, the complexity of brands taking a stand, generational […]
Email: smg8@illinois.edu Research Interests Stephanie is a PhD Candidate in Communications & Media at the Institute of Communications Research, where her work broadly encompasses mediated Latine/x teen girlhoods, quinceañera ontologies, and streaming media and platform consolidation. Her current projects merge media studies, girlhood studies, Latine/x studies, and cultural studies with reconceptualizations of visibility, presence, resonance, nationhood, […]