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CIS Seminar on “Uncanny Discourse: A New Space for Research in Interaction”
On Monday, February 3, 2025, CIS Ph.D. students Brook Connor, Kapono Gaughen and Yuri Kenney, alongside CIS faculty member Dr. Jenifer Sunrise Winter, presented their forthcoming paper on uncanny discourse — an idea that emerged from discussions in last fall’s CIS 701 course, Communication & Information Theories of Society. The paper will be presented at […]
Yiting Wang Defends Her Dissertation: Multimodal Analysis: The Performativity of Short-Form Videos and Their Affordances
Congratulations to Yiting Wang for passing her dissertation defense on Friday, November 15, 2024! Title of Dissertation: Multimodal Analysis: The Performativity of Short-Form Videos and Their Affordances Abstract: With short-form videos being ubiquitous, making sense of their performativity as well as the potential relationship (affordances) between people and short videos are imperative. Studies of social […]
Dr. Jingyi Gu Gives Talk on Chinese Live Streaming
On Monday, December 2, 2024, new Communication faculty member Jingyi Gu gave a presentation on her research, “Chinese Live Streaming: Scalable Platform Economy and Its Nonscalability,” during the CIS seminar series. In her talk, she explored how build-to-scale digital platforms mediate social relationships and affective experiences that are often considered unscalable, examining the paradoxes of […]
CIS Ph.D. Student Camaryn Yokota Named 2024 Dan J. Wedemeyer Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient
A big congratulations to Camaryn Yokota, a CIS Ph.D. student and the 2024 recipient of the Dan J. Wedemeyer Excellence in Teaching Award! This well-deserved recognition celebrates her exceptional contributions as a graduate student instructor. Cami has taught in both Communications and Communicology, and her teaching evaluations consistently rank among the highest for both student […]
