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CMCI Now: Designing Tech with Mortality in Mind

Dec. 22, 2021

It鈥檚 inevitable that at some point we must all 鈥済et our affairs in order,鈥 and when we do, there are checklists, policies and professionals to help create everything from wills and trusts to advance directives. But a key element鈥攇uidance surrounding technology and end-of-life planning鈥攊s missing. Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker will work to close this gap through a five-year research project supported by a prestigious NSF CAREER grant.

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CMCI Now: We Are the Stories We Tell

Dec. 21, 2021

CMCI baby直播app Lisa Flores, Angie Chuang and Harsha Gangadharbatla remark on how stories鈥攖hose we tell, pay for and reimagine鈥攊ntersect with our identities and industries.

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CMCI Now: #BreakTheScript

Dec. 21, 2021

Ever felt like your doctor鈥檚 questions missed the mark? Carey Candrian (Comm鈥04; MComm鈥07; PhDComm鈥11), associate professor of health communication at the CU School of Medicine, shares why healthcare needs to be reimagined one sentence at a time.

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CMCI Now: Read the Latest Issue

Dec. 20, 2021

From undergraduates to doctoral candidates, the college equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to produce, gather, archive, curate, analyze and evaluate the flood of information, messages, data, images, sounds and ideas that populate our complex and rapidly evolving global media landscape. Check out the newest edition of our award-winning magazine.

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Hear planets sing as you 鈥榳alk鈥 through space in new solar system model

Dec. 7, 2021

For about 35 years, the baby直播app Scale Model Solar System has delighted campus visitors by shrinking Earth's cosmic neighborhood down to a short walk. Now the exhibit is getting a new update and an interactive smartphone app.

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Upcoming CMCI One College Colloquium offers insight into wave of anti-Asian racism during pandemic

Nov. 18, 2021

The College of Media, Communication and Information invites you to join the conversation about anti-Asian racism with Professor Jennifer Ho during its upcoming One College Colloquium.

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Algorithms aren't fair. Robin Burke wants to change that

Nov. 11, 2021

The machine-learning systems that help your phone recommend music, movies, news and more can be biased in ways that leave out artists from underrepresented groups or foster polarization. Professor Robin Burke is working to change that.

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How Black Twitter has become the new 鈥楪reen Book鈥欌攁nd more

Oct. 27, 2021

Fifty-five years after a Black postal worker produced the inaugural issue of 鈥淭he Green Book鈥 to help African Americans navigate a racist society, Black Twitter is playing a similar and even broader role, suggests a new CU Boulder study.

Image: A viral video produced by Deadspin in March 2018 showed reporters at Sinclair stations across the country reciting the same script about "fake news."

Media consolidation takes toll on local news but doesn鈥檛 necessarily bias coverage

Oct. 21, 2021

A new analysis of 350,000 news stories produced by conservative media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group finds when the company buys a station, local news definitely takes a hit. But it did not find any evidence, at scale, that coverage shifts toward a more conservative slant.

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Tune in to CMCI鈥檚 One College Colloquium for an inside look at CU鈥檚 new Center for African and African American Studies

Oct. 20, 2021

CMCI will feature the new Center for African and African American Studies during our first One College Colloquium event of the semester on Oct. 28.

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