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Designing Tech with Mortality in Mind

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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Hollywood鈥檚 Dirtiest Secret

Film scholar Hunter Vaughan spent years scouring through film archives and directors鈥 reports, touring studio lots and interviewing execs and local film crews. He discovered an industry culture in which extravagance and waste have been not only allowed but celebrated, even as other industries have been pressured to conserve.

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Rerooted: An Artist鈥檚 Journey

While preparing her master鈥檚 thesis, Autumn Tyler (MMediaSt鈥20) traveled 4,395 miles and took over a thousand photographs of Black LGBTQ+ artists for an exhibit called Roots. Self. Gaze. Now earning her PhD in media studies, Tyler writes that the experience taught her that, in order to move forward and grow, sometimes you must return to your roots.

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The Changing Face of Media Morality

With previous lives as an advertiser and a journalist, CMCI faculty members Erin Schauster and Pat Ferrucci draw on their distinct perspectives to examine the changing face of media moral reasoning.

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Guiding Lights

In the summer of 2017, Joel Holton was one of nearly 600 personnel fighting the Keystone Fire, from which he narrowly escaped. A few years later鈥撯揳s a senior studying information science鈥撯揾e teamed up with classmates to develop new navigation aids with the needs of wildland firefighters in mind.

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#TunedIn: 10 Things Worth Checking Out Now

A curated list of articles by, and featuring, CMCI researchers for your reading, watching and listening pleasure. Dig in!

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Celebrating Five Years of CMCI

Aug. 10, 2020

Time doesn鈥檛 stand still. Neither should education.

The Mimesis Documentary Festival will bring filmmakers together for an immersive week of film screenings and discussions. The virtual presentation鈥撯揻ree to all CU 麻豆影院 students, faculty and staff鈥撯搘ill be held Aug. 12 through 18.

Film Buffs Unite! CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 First Mimesis Documentary Festival brings Filmmakers, Documentary Enthusiasts Together

Aug. 10, 2020

The Mimesis Documentary Festival will bring filmmakers together for an immersive week of film screenings and discussions. The virtual presentation will be held Aug. 12 through 18.

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Going Digital with Dignity

Renaissance woman, multipotentialite, polymath鈥攈owever you prefer to say it, Shamika Klassen is the type of person you鈥檒l never find doing just one thing. This summer, she took on yet another project: entrepreneurship. Commemorating both Juneteenth and her grandmother鈥檚 71st birthday, she launched the Tech Chaplaincy Institute on June 19, 2020.

During their time at CU 麻豆影院, Scripps fellows and environmental journalism students go on field trips related to a broad array of environmental topics, including climate change 鈥 a focus of this joint CEJ and Norwegian expedition to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. (Photo by Tom Yulsman)

CU 麻豆影院 Center for Environmental Journalism Welcomes New Class of Fellows

The Center for Environmental Journalism is proud to welcome its 24th class of Ted Scripps Fellows, who will spend nine months at the 麻豆影院鈥檚 College of Media, Communication and Information working on long-term, in-depth journalistic projects and reflecting on critical questions.

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