As part of the reorganization of creating the School of Communication and Information, faculty in Communicology have been added to the Communication and Information Science Graduate Faculty, and thus are potential committee members and advisors. Two CIS seminars were held in the Fall of 2022 to introduce the new faculty and CIS students to each […]

Please join us Monday, 4/25 (4:30pm to 5:30pm), for a talk by CIS student Moshe Karabelnik in advance of his upcoming dissertation proposal, “The Visual Practices of Opponents to COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates.” Abstract: In recent years, digital images from smartphones and other networked cameras shared on social media have largely replaced video recording devices that […]

Please join us Monday, 4/18 (4:30pm to 5:30pm), for a talk by CIS student Yiting Wang in advance of her upcoming dissertation proposal: “Multimodal analysis: The performativity of short-form videos.” Abstract: With social media becoming visual and with more ubiquitous short-form videos, making sense of such visual communication is imperative. In other words, a robust […]

Dear CIS Community, Please join us in celebrating the election of Helen Wong Smith as the new vice president/president-elect of the Society of American Archivists (SAA).  Helen is currently the Archivist for University Records for the University of Hawai`i.  She is known for her work on cultural competency in archives and allied professions and conducts workshops […]