April 10, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood When Andrea Campos graduated from Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in advertising, she had no idea she’d be returning 12 years later as the alumni speaker at the 2024 College of Media Convocation ceremony. But as an artist and creative entrepreneur whose recent career accomplishments include illustrating a New […]
April 10, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood The College of Media is collaborating with University of Illinois and community partners to present educational workshops to local children this spring as part of a new public engagement effort. The collaboration between the College of Media and the Center for Social and Behavioral Science focuses on creating hands-on […]
After Party, a short film produced by alum Kat Williams (BS ’22, media and cinema studies), will be featured on Thursday, April 4, at the Knight Auditorium of Spurlock Museum, as part of the screening series presented by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies. This year’s Ebert Fellows, who curated the evening’s films, chose the […]
April 2, 2024 | NPR Illinois There are biases in AI in how it works, biases in the data that we feed to the AI to train them, there are biases in the way in which AI is being used and implemented, and then there are also biases and psychological processes at the psychological level […]
March 29, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood (Photos by Charles “Stretch” Ledford.) A group of journalism students heard harrowing stories from the local women they interviewed while filming a documentary about period poverty in Sierra Leone, West Africa, over spring break. “Girls talked of being bullied at school when they got their period. Mothers talked about […]
March 29, 2024 AUDIENCE CHOICE FILM IS ROBERT ALTMAN’S ‘COOKIE’S FORTUNE’ NEWLY LAUNCHED ‘LITTLE INDIAN GIRL COLLECTIVE’ PANEL IN DIALOGUE AND PERFORMANCE ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ‘ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND’ TO BE SCREENED Roger Ebert’s Film Festival is pleased to announce its full program, with the additions of the documentary Omoiyari: A Song Film by Kishi […]
March 27, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood A group of College of Media students participated in a spring break media tour in Chicago, meeting Illinois alumni and visiting various industry sites including advertising agencies, news organizations, and a film studio. Led by faculty members Victor Font, lecturer in media and cinema studies, and Margaret Ng, assistant […]
March 22, 2024 Faculty and graduate students in the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising and Institute of Communications Research were honored with awards and presented research at the annual conference of the American Academy of Advertising, held March 14-17, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. Professor Michelle Nelson, head of the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising, won […]
March 15, 2024 Updated 4/30/2024: Recordings are now available to watch. This year’s Chaz and Roger Ebert Symposium, presented by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, will address “Representations and Their Critics.” Discussions will consider the current state of film criticism, the interpretive power of media critics, and how this work might evolve over the next […]
March 13, 2024 Writers Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski to screen ‘Man on the Moon’ Director Andrew Davis and brother Richard Davis to bring their Chicago-rooted film ‘Stony Island’ Filmmakers Christine and Michael Swanson, actors Lynn Whitfield and Renee Elise Goldsberry join indie film ‘Albany Road’ Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced […]