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Get to know some of our College of Media students! Faith Lee is a Class of 2025 journalism major. What brought you to Illinois?It’s close to home, only about an hour-and-a-half away, which is great because I can take the train home. I had visited UIUC before I made my decision, and I liked the […]
Get to know some of our College of Media faculty. Shachar Meron is a senior lecturer in advertising. What is your educational background? I actually started out as an art major as a freshman, then I shifted after that to the Division of General Studies as an undeclared student, trying to find my way. I wanted […]
Get to know some of our College of Media faculty. Alison Davis is a lecturer in journalism and a seven-time regional Emmy Award winner. Why did you become a lecturer in the College of Media?When I was working for the Big Ten Network, there were times that different professors would go on sabbatical, and I […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Talia Duffy is a Class of 2025 journalism major. What made you want to major in journalism? My whole life, I have always enjoyed speaking to people, and informing people about different things. Being able to investigate and learn more about different topics has always been […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Emilio Reyes is a Class of 2025 journalism major. What made you choose journalism at Illinois?In my senior year of high school, I was doing a lot of self-reflection and I asked myself, “What am I good at?” I knew I loved talking, getting to know […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Gavin Schroeder is a Class of 2024 media and cinema studies major. What interested you in pursuing filmmaking at the College of Media?I’m from Peoria, Illinois. I didn’t know what my future would be like. Community college was a safe and affordable option for me […]
Email: rji3@illinois.edu Research Interests My research centers on the psychology of persuasion in digital media, with a particular focus on social media platforms. I investigate how consumers interpret and react to persuasive messages such as advertisements and health-related messages by brands and social media influencers. I am also interested in the effects of misinformation and […]
Email: yanbol2@illinois.edu Research Interests My research interests lie at the intersection of computational communication and political communication. Specifically, I am interested in using computational methods to learn about online misinformation and incivility contagion inside and between different countries and the possible factors that foster these processes. Recent Publications/Presentations Li, Y., & Su, C. (2022). “Toxidization” of […]
Email: spark110@illinois.edu Research Interests Se Il is a doctoral student at the Institute of Communications Research (ICR). Se Il’s interdisciplinary research focuses on persuasive messages in the context of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Metaverse, and Web 3.0. He wants to examine the difference in consumer behavior in a more immersive and intelligent virtual […]
Email: wd12@illinois.edu Research Interests Weiting Du is a first-year Ph.D. student at the Institute of Communications Research. Weiting’s research interests encompass media effects and risk communication under the context of climate change, with a particular interest in climate inactions. In parallel, Weiting explores how contemporary visual imagery represents the complex interplay between human-environment relationships, collective memories, […]