March 6, 2026 | Kelly Youngblood Angela Aguayo, associate professor of media and cinema studies, created the Content Creation Lab to help young teens acquire media production skills. The pilot program, which will be held in new podcasting studios at Illinois Public Media, was awarded a grant from the College of Media and is supported […]
June 24, 2024 | Liz Shallenberger, UX Designer A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scholar who studies how authenticity and aesthetics intersect with branding found that interracial couples featured in advertisements enhanced brand outcomes relative to white couples, but also decreased brand outcomes relative to Black, Hispanic and Asian couples. The […]
Join the College of Media and the Frank Center via Zoom for a conversation with Michael Steele, former Republican National Committee Chairman and current co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC, discussing Donald Trump’s campaign and trials, the future of the GOP, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson’s future, and more. The Q&A will be led by Colleen King, director of the […]
The Roger Ebert Lecture, “Provenance, Fakes, and Feuds: Building Expertise around Transnational Genre in 1960s Iran,” will be presented by Kaveh Askari, an associate professor and director of film studies at Michigan State University. Kaveh Askari’s research and teaching focus on cinema and media history in a global context. Special areas of interest include art cinema, media […]