Excerpts from ‘Bridging Divides’ series: Reaching Across the Aisle: Advertising and Messaging in an Age of Polarization

November 13, 2024 As part of the College of Media’s three-part webinar series this fall, “Bridging Divides: Conversations on Media and Disagreement,” faculty from the Departments of Advertising, Journalism, and Media & Cinema Studies led Q&As to explore how productive discussions occur across lines of disagreement and difference. Below, read excerpts from “Reaching Across the Aisle: Advertising […]

College of Media to hold three-part webinar series, ‘Bridging Divides: Conversations on Media and Disagreement’

October 1, 2024 How are we teaching students, and the broader community, to disagree? It’s a question the College of Media hopes to address in a new three-part series, “Bridging Divides: Conversations on Media and Disagreement.” Update 11/13/24: Read excerpts from the Q&As: Faculty from the Departments of Advertising, Journalism, and Media & Cinema Studies […]

College of Media collaborates with University, community partners to offer local children access to new opportunities in education, technology

April 10, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood The College of Media is collaborating with University of Illinois and community partners to present educational workshops to local children this spring as part of a new public engagement effort. The collaboration between the College of Media and the Center for Social and Behavioral Science focuses on creating hands-on […]

Jason P. Chambers’s new book ‘Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell’ details ad exec’s influence on industry’s approach to African Americans

January 11, 2024 | Kelly Youngblood Advertising Professor Jason P. Chambers’s new biography about Tom Burrell, a renowned Black visionary who changed the face of the ad industry for African Americans, will be published on February 6.  While Advertising Revolutionary: The Life and Work of Tom Burrell (University of Illinois Press) will appeal to those […]

College of Media welcomes new faculty leadership roles, newly promoted faculty, and new faculty members

August 23, 2023 This fall welcomes two new heads of academic units, a new center director, a new associate head of advertising graduate studies, three faculty promotions, and two new faculty in the College of Media. Professor Michelle Nelson will serve as the head of the Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising for a three-year […]

College of Media faculty appointed to Associate Dean positions

Two faculty from the College of Media have been appointed by Dean Tracy Sulkin to associate dean positions starting August 16.  Announced in January, Stephanie Craft, currently professor and head of the Department of Journalism, will serve as the College of Media’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.  Announced in March, Jason P. Chambers, currently associate […]

Advertising and ICR faculty and students present, win awards at American Academy of Advertising annual conference

The Charles H. Sandage Department of Advertising faculty members and Institute of Communications Research doctoral students participated as moderators, panelists, and research paper presenters at the American Academy of Advertising annual conference, March 18-20, 2021.  Their research topics included chatbot advertising, online ethical behaviors, advanced computational advertising research, the complexity of brands taking a stand, generational […]

Chambers to lead discussion on diversity as College of Media Dean’s Fellow

July 28, 2020 | Marissa Plescia, Communications and Marketing Intern Jason P. Chambers, associate professor of advertising, first became interested in history from his eighth grade teacher. Since then, he has dedicated his career to history, specifically on race and ethnicity and advertising. “[My teacher] was a wonderful storyteller and really brought history to life,” […]