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Mike Vainisi (BS ’08, journalism) is head of original content at ATTN:. In Spring 2022, he was part of a Media Career Night alumni panel that discussed working in entertainment and Hollywood. (Watch the recording.) How did you go about picking journalism as your major? As someone who loved writing in high school, journalism was a great […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Greta Prepejchal is a Class of 2025 advertising major. What excited you the most about majoring in advertising?Advertising is a flexible major. Advertising majors are able to choose their own path by picking courses that they are interested in taking. As an artistic person, I found my […]
Get to know some of our College of Media students! Emily Richie is a Class of 2025 journalism major. What made you decide on majoring in journalism? Journalism here at Illinois is an outstanding program and has amazing professors. When I got here, I was excited to get more hands-on experiences and to learn more about multimedia […]
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 […]
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, […]
Email: rikray2@illinois.edu RESEARCH INTERESTS I primarily study how audiences take shape on digital platforms and the ways in which platform logics influence audience behavior. My interest in research design and methodology has also led to collaborations across topical domains such as political communication, public opinion, journalism studies, etc. Recent Publications/Presentations Ray, R., Bhalla, S., & Taneja, […]