December 18, 2024 | Sight and Sound Why did I choose the most explanatory chapter from Oyallon-Koloski’s videographic book Storytelling in Motion? Because I think that her visualizations of Laban Movement Analysis using the stylized acting of Hollywood musicals should be mandatory viewing for character animators.’ Oswald Iten, Film Scholar Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, assistant professor of Media […]
October 27, 2024 | Chicago Tribune As a female journalist of color with 22 years in the industry and now a professor of journalism, I believe that obliviousness to journalism’s trailblazers—both their errors and biases and their accomplishments and innovations—leaves the media professional in a state of historical amnesia. Melita Garza, Associate Professor and Tom […]
September 12, 2024 | Los Angeles Times They were, to the industry, a kind of proof of concept that both aesthetically they can be successful, and also they could be marketed as an attraction, ‘Come see what the movies do now.’ Julie Turnock, Professor of Media and Cinema Studies Digital effects in films have existed […]
July 18, 2024 | New York Times You’re seeing some of the same trends that we see in the English-speaking community, but they’re much more pronounced in the Latino community, especially the immigrant community. Melita Garza, Associate Professor and Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism Melita Garza, associate professor and Tom and June […]
July 18, 2024 | University of Vermont If you pick up the 2023 book Changing Models for Journalism by Brant Houston, Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting in the Department of Journalism, you would read about the collapse of traditional media and the changes in the news landscape over the past decade, written by […]
July 3, 2024 | Los Angeles Times You note your popularity specifically when you get internalized into meme culture. Carrie Wilson-Brown, Lecturer of Media and Cinema Studies and of Advertising Carrie Wilson-Brown, a lecturer of media and cinema studies and of advertising, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the cross-cultural and cross-generational appeal […]
April 2, 2024 | NPR Illinois There are biases in AI in how it works, biases in the data that we feed to the AI to train them, there are biases in the way in which AI is being used and implemented, and then there are also biases and psychological processes at the psychological level […]