Kurt Braddock was interviewed by Business Insider regarding former President Trump's comments which seem to scoff at the idea of remaining peaceful while protesting. In the interview, Kurt notes that Trump's comments are similar to those he has made int he past that seem to implicitly call for violence.
SOC3 – the “Storytelling for Changemakers” experiential learning initiative led by Professor Pallavi Kumar – and its work with the Bring Our Families Home campaign were featured on Scripps News and its network of local TV stations. Here you can see all the stations that carried the story across the country.
Chung-Wei Huang's PSA project, "It Takes Courage: Reporting Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct," won this year's Diversity and Inclusion Creative Award at the Broadcast Education Association.
Aram Sinnreich was interviewed in The Hill about the proposed legislation banning TikTok, and what this would mean from an enforcement standpoint, as well as its constitutional implications for Americans. https://news.yahoo.com/could-tiktok-ban-enforced-175032158.html
Film and Media Arts Adjunct Professor Michael Cascio published a column titled “The Credits Conundrum” in Realscreen, a production trade publication. The topic: Credit inflation. The story: Michael recently worked as Executive Producer of a high-profile documentary. The only problem? There were 20 other Executive Producers listed. Is that fair? Here’s Michael’s take on a growing trend in the industry: https://realscreen.com/2022/11/17/viewpoint-michael-cascio-on-the-credits-conundrum/
Andrew Phelps, director of the AU Game Center, hosted the annual gathering of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) where he serves as president, and announced the induction of four new Fellows (and one in memoriam) as a part of the HEVGA Fellows Program. The meeting was held in conjunction with the annual Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California. Phelps also hosted a gathering of AU MFA students and AU Game Center alumni in conjunction with the event.
HEVGA Fellows announcement: https://hevga.org/hevga-announces-2023-fellows/
AU Game Center meet-up: https://twitter.com/auGameCenter/status/1639657579939876865
Caty Borum and Leena Jayaswal were interviewed for “Zoom in with Renee: Dr. Renee Mehrra talks to “Mixed” documentary directors Caty Borum and Leena Jayaswal on biracial kids” For Renee Mehrra Youtube site which has 7000 subscribers and will play on Queens Public television, and will be broadcast on Swagat TV (national channel on Spectrum Cable).
Leena Jayaswal was part of the “The Draw (& Drawbacks) of Family Connections to Women Artists & their Art” panel with artist Gail Rebhan and art historians Professor Jennie Klein from Ohio University, Professor Andrea Liss from California State University San Marco, and moderated by Sally Stein Professor Emerita UC Irvine at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center on March 25.
Joe Campbell recently welcomed to his "American 1990s" class AU grad and comedy writer Andy Cowan (CAS 1973), who discussed the back story to the 1994 Seinfeld episode, "The Opposite." Cowan, who spoke to the class by Zoom, developed and pitched the idea at the heart of that episode.
The Center for Media & Social Impact's Climate Comedy Cohort (co-created and co-directed with clean energy NGO, Generation 180), now in its second year, was the feature story in The Guardian, Teen Vogue, and Fast Company this week. The newly announced 2023 Climate Comedy Cohort fellows include a writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a past winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing, a writer for Adam Ruins Everything, and comedians who have performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central, and more.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/comedy-about-climate-change
https://www.fastcompany.com/90872673/why-this-comedy-troupe-is-telling-jokes-about-climate-change
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/mar/29/comedy-climate-change-michelle-wolf-david-perdue
Jane Hall was interviewed on KNX news radio in Los Angeles about the decline on ratings for CNN and cable news.