April 15, 2025 Students from the College of Media are participating in the annual University of Illinois Undergraduate Research Week, held April 20-26. The Undergraduate Research Symposium, the signature event held on Thursday, April 24, at the Illini Union, features presentations, posters, and performances from students across campus. Below is a list of Media student presentations as well […]
March 21, 2025 Advertising faculty and graduate students in the MS advertising and ICR doctoral programs, as well as several alumni, participated in the 2025 annual conference of the American Academy of Advertising, held March 6-9 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Faculty and graduate students participated in eight paper presentations and three panels, discussing research and ideas […]
March 19, 2025 Helen Katz (MS ’86, advertising; PhD ’88, ICR), EVP of Research at Publicis Media, has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2025 Erwin Ephron Demystification Award. This lifetime achievement award honors industry leaders who are exceptional communicators and excel in making complex subjects accessible, embodying the spirit of legendary advertising research guru Erwin Ephron. […]
Email: youngin3@illinois.edu Research Interests I interrogate the politics of popular cultures hiding under the cloak of spectacular glitz, through interdisciplinary approaches within cultural studies. My work invites the readers to (re)visit the power relations of languages in contemporary cinema and the pop music industry or to explore a complicated ecosystem of female fandom. From Seoul, […]
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 […]
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
Email: anqip2@illinois.edu Research Interests My interests fall at the intersection of gender and cultural studies of Chinese media. I am currently finishing my dissertation on the media representation of “leftover women” and the growing social phenomenon of the increasing single population in Chinese society. Recent Publications/Presentations Peng, A. (2024). Representing Single Women: The Transformation of […]
Email: sakshib3@illinois.edu Research Interests News media, political behavior, information networks Recent Publications/Presentations Bhalla, S., Ray, R., & Taneja, H. (2024). When news is entertainment: explaining the persistence of misinformation through the information environment. Information Communication & Society, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2024.2406819 Courses Taught Awards and Honors Related Links https://sakshi-bhalla.github.io/
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 […]
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 […]