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- Licensing deals OpenAI signed with The Atlantic and Vox Media have CMCI experts asking questions.
- Following years of high-profile shootings, Chris Vargo expected to find rising public salience around gun control. He didn’t.
- Harsha Gangadharbatla loves the challenge of inspiring students who sit in the last row of the lecture hall. His attention to his craft and his classes led to a prestigious teaching award from the American Academy of Advertising last month.
- A new book from Nathan Schneider argues that attempts to impose democracy on the internet have failed for cultural and technical reasons. But what if we used it as a tool to solve these problems?
- This year, the pop megastar has become a regular at Kansas City Chiefs NFL games, but not everyone is happy about seeing her on screen. Teaching Associate Professor Jamie Skerski gives her take on why Swift is facing such a backlash, and how it reflects a boys-only culture in the world of football.
- Romance authors were early adopters of digital self-publishing. A new book explores how their willingness to experiment and their close networks helped them thrive when the publishing industry shunned their work.
- In its ongoing conquest of legacy media studios, the tech industry made use of a very old playbook.
- “The U.S. news media has blood on its hands from 2016,” Mike McDevitt says. Will 2024 be different?
- A four-day conference on the rise of religious nationalism—and the media’s role in the spread of news and meaning around these topics—comes to CU «Ƶ in January.
- Generative A.I. tools and copyright law are intersecting in the 1928 “Steamboat Willie” cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse. An expert in tech ethics says it’s just the start.