Media Studies

  • Rory poses at her art gallery
    Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe is a PhD candidate in media studies who runs a multimodal art gallery, Space__Space, in East Boulder.
  • An aerial view of the CU Boulder campus and Flatirons.
    More than 800 CMCI students were named to the dean's list for the spring semester.
  • A photo of the U.S. and Venezuelan flags next to each other.
    A historian and labor expert says companies like IBM typified how the U.S. dominated the post-World War II global order. Trump’s retreat from that stage “undermines the free markets corporations want.”
  • CMDI students celebrating graduation
    In a year where the college’s biggest story was its name change—following its integration with the environmental design department—CMDI’s community also found itself at the center of the biggest conversations shaping our time—from sustainability and A.I., to media literacy and the future of journalism.
  • A screen capture of John Oliver with the cover of a textbook as the graphic.
    When Last Week Tonight wanted to talk about cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, its researchers called communication historian Josh Shepperd.
  • Students and photographer at CU v USC game on Folsom Field
    Through relevant courses, networking opportunities and student-led organizations, CMDI is helping students turn their passions into careers in sports media.
  • Because of the multidisciplinary nature of their work—and their fearlessness in confronting the biggest problems—CMDI faculty are regularly featured in local and national media. Here are 10 times over the past decade when major news outlets have
  • Sandra Ristovska
    Sandra Ristovska’s research into video evidence and deepfakes is getting further refined during a prestigious fellowship at Stanford.
  • handcuffed hands holding a phone that says no service
    The histories of how media technologies have been introduced in U.S. prisons offer clues as to the government’s dramatic rise in spending on the carceral system.
  • A still from a cartoon showing a baby deer nuzzling its mother's dead body.
    Children aren’t just blank slates—they create meaning from the media they experience. An expert says that’s a reason to think about how we show themes like violence and death.
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