Email: jiwono2@illinois.edu Research Interests Jiwon’s research interests broadly encompass transnational and feminist STS, AI ethics and governance, Asian technocultures, and human-machine communication. Her current projects delve into AI governance and the shifting notions of intimacy and creativity shaped by AI in South Korea, as well as the dynamics of Western technological influence and forms of […]
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Jennifer Cintron
Email: jc118@illinois.edu Research Interests Recent Publications/Presentations “Them that Fabricate: Interpretations of Conservative Religions in Independent Film”, Console-ing Passions International Conference. Bloomington, IN. June, 2024 “Mapping Found Footage Tropes in the True Crime Genre”, Popular Culture Association National Conference. Chicago, IL. March, 2024. Courses Taught Academic Roles Awards and Honors
Sakshi Bhalla
Email: sakshib3@illinois.edu Research Interests Recent Publications/Presentations R Ray, S Bhalla, H Taneja. (2025). Partisan news users in the United States and India on either side seldom use fact checkers. Journal of Communication, https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaf018 Bhalla, S., Nelson, M. R., & Spikes, M. (2025). Classroom contexts: Teachers talk teaching media literacy. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 17(2), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2025-17-2-3 […]
Namita Gupta
Email: namita2@illinois.edu Research Interests Namita is a PhD student at the Institute of Communications Research, with an interest in examining urban technologies and platform economies in South Asia. She is particularly interested in the everyday functioning of these technologies in relation to questions of class, gender and caste. She has a BA and MA in […]
William Helmke
Email: whelmke2@illinois.edu Research Interests I am interested in the intersection between games, culture, and the representation of physical space. Focusing primarily on games from Japan, I seek to make connections between games and culture while also considering how physical space is reproduced in the games’ virtual worlds. I am also interested in the role of […]
Yiran Gao
Email: yirang3@illinois.edu Research Interests Yiran Gao is a doctoral student at the Institute of Communications Research. Her interdisciplinary research interests lie at the intersection of media studies, critical cultural studies, science and technology studies, and global studies. Her current research focuses on the roles and the impact of digital media on the formation of digital public […]
Anirban Mukhopadhyay
Email: anirban3@illinois.edu Research Interests I am interested in the history of communication/media technologies; media and space, race and media, resistance and social movements; media policies and critical information studies. I am intrigued by how media affect cultural changes in the public sphere, build cultural citizenship and (re)produce frameworks of everyday life. I am driven by questions […]
Media Career Services to hold first annual Media Career Week for students February 24-27
February 4, 2025 | Kelly Youngblood Media Career Services is holding its first annual Media Career Week, featuring workshops, guest speakers, and media professionals offering helpful insights to prepare College of Media students for a campuswide career fair as well as their post-graduation career. Media Career Week will kick off Monday, Feb. 24, and run through Thursday, Feb. […]
Ebertfest to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ and Adds ‘His Three Daughters’ and ‘Touch’ to 2025 Lineup
Actress Rosanna Arquette and Directors Azazel Jacobs, Baltasar Kormákur, and Susan Seidelman will attend this year’s festival February 3, 2025 CHAMPAIGN, IL (February 3, 2025) — Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, also known as Ebertfest, announced today the addition of three new films to this year’s festival: The Virginia Theatre will be partying like it’s 1985 […]
Tingyu Chen
Email: tingyuc3@illinois.edu Research Interests Tingyu Chen is a Ph.D candidate at the Institute of Communications Research with a focus on cinema and media studies. Her research interests include gender and screen cultures, women’s cinema, Chinese cinema, VFX, globalization and cultural modernity. She is also interested in the application of digital tools in humanities research. One of […]