Radio 1190鈥檚 return to the AM band after the pandemic was a labor of love, as classes of dedicated students committed to bringing the station back to the halls of 兔子先生传媒文化作品.

In just the last year, the station鈥攆ormally known as 鈥攃aptured numerous awards for radio reporting, while growing its news team and listener base.

Now, 1190鈥檚 mix of student-curated music and news is getting play in a much bigger market.

On Thursday, the student-run station returned to Denver, where it can be heard at 92.9 FM on translator K225BS.  

鈥淚f there鈥檚 one question we鈥檝e kept answering again and again over the last few years, it鈥檚 鈥榃hen are you going to be back on the air in Denver?鈥� If there鈥檚 another, it鈥檚, 鈥榃hen are you going to be on the FM?鈥欌�� said Iris Berkeley (Jour鈥�01), the station鈥檚 general manager. 鈥淲e鈥檙e looking forward to making up for lost time.鈥�

The station鈥檚 journey since the pandemic forced it into automated programming hasn鈥檛 been a straight line. After a year as an online-only station, it returned to AM in February 2023.

Jack Armstrong (StratComm鈥�24), who served as news director before graduating in the winter, said building up the staff involved pitching the station to student volunteers, which he did by visiting classes and asking for opportunities to speak.

More: Tuned to creativity

Now, more than 30 regular student participants contribute to the station, which offers news broadcasts each weekday during the academic year, daily student-curated music programming, and a revamped website featuring news, blogs and podcasts showcasing student-created visuals and music.

Another part of 1190鈥檚 success has been philanthropy, especially from the Stewart Family Foundation, which has supported a number of projects at 兔子先生传媒文化作品 and the College of Media, Communication and Information. Unsurprisingly, the foundation鈥攚hich honors the legacy of Colorado broadcast pioneers Lila and Bill Stewart, who owned and operated Longmont鈥檚 KLMO until 1998鈥攈as been a key supporter of Radio 1190.

鈥淲e wouldn鈥檛 be at this point of celebration if it weren鈥檛 for the generosity and benevolence of the Stewart Family Foundation 鈥� as well as our friends and partners in 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Student Government and the College of Media, Communication and Information,鈥� said Berkeley, who was involved with 1190 as a student. 鈥淭hank you for believing in the power of student media.鈥�

The next step for the station鈥檚 volunteers, like Juanita Hurtado, a junior majoring in journalism and the current news director, is to ensure students鈥� contributions help them stand out when they graduate and look for work.

鈥淲e want to make sure students develop not only the skills to earn them jobs, but also awards that prove to recruiters the quality of their work,鈥� Hurtado said.  

It鈥檚 a vision she shares with Armstrong.  

鈥淚 have a very distinct goal鈥攖hat when people see Radio 1190 on a resume, it will attract recruiters,鈥� Armstrong said. 鈥淲e do have some national distinctions already, but I want to get to the point where people get an interview or a callback because Radio 1190 has that recognition.鈥�

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By Hannah Stewart (Comm鈥�19)

The Mimesis Documentary Festival, hosted by the College of Media, Communication and Information鈥檚 Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, will hold community film screenings, artist talks and more from Aug. 14 through 18. This year, they received nearly 300 submissions from more than 30 countries, and will feature more than 60 documentaries.

鈥淏eing five years in means that we鈥檙e fulfilling a need in the international documentary community鈥攖he need for a festival that鈥檚 really artist-focused and community based,鈥� said Eric Coombs Esmail, director of the center.

What: Mimesis Documentary Festival

When: Aug. 14-18

Where: Venues throughout Boulder as well as virtual screenings

Who: Festival passes ($80) and virtual passes ($30) are available to the public. 兔子先生传媒文化作品 community members are eligible for a 50% discount, and free tickets are available to 兔子先生传媒文化作品 students.

Now that it鈥檚 a well-known annual event, the festival is attracting more community partnerships and sponsors. Cool Boulder, along  with the Endangered Species Coalition, subsidized artist submission fees for projects addressing nature-based climate solutions. These projects are part of a special category of films called that will be featured across two days in four different documentary and live performance blocks. Other sponsors include the City of Boulder and the Boulder Public Library.

Associate Professor Erin Espelie, who holds a joint appointment in both cinema studies and critical media practices, is also a filmmaker whose documentary, , will be featured as part of the block called The Tree Remembers. Emergent technologies and media art practices PhD candidates and will also have their works shown in a Moving Creatures block.

Two other particularly exciting pieces this year include the pre-festival screening of by Terra Long and by artist in residence Miryam Charles.

Long鈥檚 film was screened Saturday, Aug. 10, at the Boulder Public Library鈥檚 Canyon Theater, and was followed up with a live Q&A with the filmmaker. While this is not the first time Mimesis has hosted a pre-festival screening, Coombs said this was special because of the collaboration.

鈥淲e鈥檝e done pre-festival screenings twice previously, but they鈥檝e been under the radar,鈥� he said. 鈥淭his year, our partnership with the Boulder Library to make sure the festival is reaching the community beyond just the event itself. The library has gotten more funding and it鈥檚 opened up a lot more avenues for collaboration.鈥�

Artists in residence are chosen by the programming team, and Charles was the perfect candidate because the team saw her as 鈥渟omeone who really works at the boundary of what documentary might become.鈥� Her film, which reflects on the unresolved death of her cousin, will be shown at 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, and she will host a master class the next morning at 10; both will take place at the Boedecker Cinema.

鈥淭he main goal is to host something that is valuable not only to the artists, but to the broader Front Range community in general,鈥� Coombs said. 鈥淲e want to make Mimesis sustainable and something that can survive the test of time. We want to grow the community we鈥檝e built and demonstrate to that documentary is for everyone.鈥�

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By Hannah Stewart (Comm鈥�19)

For Ricarose Roque, educational justice and equity are paramount. As an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science, much of her research explores the concept of inclusive learning experiences. This research鈥攚hich often considers the place of technology in a learning environment鈥攚on her recognition by Division C of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Ricarose Roque
Assistant Professor
Information Science

Each year, the AERA recognizes education researchers and Roque, who also has a courtesy appointment in the School of Education, was honored with the Jan Hawkins Award, which highlights contributions to humanistic research and scholarship in learning technologies.

鈥淔ar too often, research on learning with technology focuses on the coldly cognitive aspects of learning,鈥� explained Joe Polman, associate dean for research in CU鈥檚 School of Education. 鈥淚n contrast, this award is designed to recognize research and development on learning with technologies that takes into account how human beings have complex and important lives.鈥�

Through the Creative Communities research group, Roque and her team have been conducting research that engages with communities at multiple levels. For example, some projects explore computing outside the classroom while others investigate relationship and identity building. 

The 鈥渂uild on families鈥� relationships and cultural backgrounds and to strengthen their social support and expertise around computing,鈥� according to the program鈥檚 website.

Inspired by her family鈥檚 Filipino culture and the experience of growing up as an immigrant in the U.S., Roque creates her projects and programs in such a way that supports and uplifts local communities. As a result, since coming to CMCI, she has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

鈥淟ike Jan Hawkins, Ricarose recognizes the great potential for new technologies in the learning process, but she has a humanist鈥檚 perspective on the centrality of social and cultural context,鈥� MIT Professor of Learning Research Mitchel Resnick wrote in his letter nominating Roque. 鈥淎lso, like Jan, Ricarose brings a warmth and kindness to everything she does, always willing to help and support others, both emotionally and intellectually.鈥�

Roque was that included five individuals from universities across the country and honored at the , which was held in April in Chicago. As a recipient of the Jan Hawkins Award, Roque will receive a $500 stipend, plaque and opportunity to speak at next year鈥檚 AERA award session.

鈥淚 feel very proud and humbled to receive this award, especially as it honors Jan Hawkins' legacy of humanistic research and uses of learning technologies that respect young people and their communities,鈥� Roque said.

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Associate Professor Reece Auguiste is co-editing a book tentatively titled African Cinema: Modernity and Moving Image Culture, which is in the final stages of chapter revisions before submitting the manuscript to peer reviewers in January and then to press in summer 2020. He also submitted an article titled 鈥淰isible Things Unseen: Co-creation and Its Philosophical Turn,鈥� which will appear in AfterImage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol.47. No.1 this March. He peer-reviewed an article for Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal and another article for The Journal of Media Practice and Education. Auguiste presented a paper titled 鈥淐an the Archive Speak? In Search of the Interior Life of Archives鈥� at the Reframing Africa: Future Archives conference hosted by the University of Witwatersrand, and at The Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, in October 2019.

Assistant Professor Betsey Biggs is continuing work on MELT. She also held a laptop performance as part of the Musical Ecologies series in New York City.  She has a soundtrack coming out in April for her music film, MELT: The Memory of Ice.

Instructor Pat Clark recently presented Pathways to Mixed Reality: Oral History, the i-Doc, and the Archive at the 2019 Oral History Association鈥檚 Annual Meeting. This multi-dimensional immersive media project highlights landscape photography and the environment. He was also awarded a grant through Open兔子先生传媒文化作品 to adopt Online Educational Resources (OER) as an alternative to high-cost course materials.

Instructor Eric Coombs Esmail, director of the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, along with the center's associate director, Instructor Christian Hammons, completed a short film, Rumor, which will premiere at a major festival this year. They also completed principal photography on their grant-funded documentary feature, American Refuge, about homelessness in the national forests of the American West. The project received the Audience Award at the Society for Visual Anthropology Pitch Fest at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association in Vancouver. As director and associate director of the Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media, the pair launched Mimesis, a grant-funded program to transform the center into a hub of documentary media production on campus, in the Western U.S., and beyond. The center now offers masterclasses, microgrants and support for project development, fundraising, production, distribution, and outreach, and it will debut the Mimesis Documentary Festival later this year.

Assistant Professor Erin Espelie had a solo show in Los Angeles at the Egyptian Theater with the L.A. Film Forum, where she premiered her new film Tenebrio molitor and a night of short films at the Regulator Gallery in Norman, Oklahoma. In August she was invited to install her film Silent Springs on site at the Sagehen Creek Field Station in northern California. She recently published in the , and she plans to chair a panel at the 2020 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference entitled, Deep Horizons: Examining the Spectrum of Uneven Ecocide & Enduring Futures.

Associate Professor Tara Knight鈥檚 short animation film Unsettled continued to be presented in a wide array of venues in 2019 - from the top animation festival in the world (Annecy, the "Cannes of Animation"), to a program on the history of "Animation and the Fine Arts" (Zagreb), to a US tour with Black Maria Film Festival (Director's Choice Award). Current iterations of her collaborative Sound Planetarium VR project were invited to be presented at conferences for art and technologists (Museum of Science Boston), for live performance designers (Live Design International), and for astrophysicists (University of Liege, Belgium). The animated video projection Knight created for the theatrical performance The Great Wave at the Berkeley Rep was reviewed as "handsome," "intricate," "stunning," "breathtakingly immersive," and "bone-rattling, eye-popping." Knight also received the 2019 William R. Payden Award for Faculty Teaching and Research Excellence.

Professor and Department Chair Teri Rueb published a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art (Routledge, June 2020).  This month, she鈥檚 attending a gathering of Critical Media Study program heads at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, along with DCMP doctoral student Toma Peiu. The universities represented will include University of the Arts, London; Universite虂 Paris Sciences et Lettres; and Goldsmiths, University of London. This month she鈥檒l also be presenting as part of the Harvard Graduate School of Design鈥檚 alumni talks. She is currently collaborating with Roberto Azaretto, a DCMP doctoral student, and Jiffer Harriman, lecturer out of ATLAS, on a commission from the Fiske Planetarium to create a sonic mobile experience based on the scaled solar system model installed on campus. And, she is exhibiting work in the group show, Charting the World: Subjective Map Making at Suffolk University in Boston, which runs from Jan. 30 through Feb. 27. 

Instructor Jason Sanford recently finished composing an album鈥檚 worth of material, tentatively titled Complications on a label based in Prague called , which will be forthcoming in May. He will tour Europe this coming summer. He is also working on a Black Box project in collaboration with ATLAS Professor Ellen Yi-Luen Do, and is doing the sound design for a dance performance featuring Helanius Wilkins, who will perform as part of the show MULTISCAPES at the Black Box on March 6 and 7.

Assistant Professor Stephanie Spray has been invited to present work at a retreat hosted by Science Sandbox at the National Academy of Sciences. She is also one of 16 directors invited to present nonfiction work in the 2020 Sundance Talent Forum and has been invited to CPH:DOX in Copenhagen to pitch her feature film, Patagonia Park. Her chapter for the Routledge Handbook for Ethnographic Film and Video will be published this April. She continues to work on both of her feature films: Edge of Time and Patagonia Park.

Instructor Andrew Young is currently in the review phase on his article 鈥溾�橠ark Tourism and Rwandan Media Industries: Promoting Nation and the Mythology of Memory鈥� in the Journal of Genocide Research. He is teaching a new video game theory class this semester, which he鈥檒l likely adapt into an article about a critical media practices approach to teaching game theory. Additionally, his research on Rwandan film and nationalism was accepted for presentation at the 2020 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, and his paper on Religion and Rwandan print media was accepted to the 2020 American Cultural Association/Popular Culture Association Conference.

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Researchers from labs across the country will come together on 兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 campus for a two-day symposium exploring how feminist approaches can be integrated into lab settings.

The 鈥淲hat Is a Feminist Lab?鈥� symposium is free and open to the public and will take place April 17-18 in the university鈥檚 Norlin Library. Seats will be available on a first come, first served basis.

During the symposium, which will include both presentations and lab tours, speakers will survey the lab landscape and examine the proliferation of labs, drawing on intersectional feminist approaches. The event is meant to create a dialogue among lab leaders and collaborators from across the U.S. and Canada, as well as students and faculty from various interdisciplinary university labs.

Featured speakers include: Ashley Baccus-Clark, a molecular and cellular biologist and multidisciplinary artist based in New York; Ingrid Burrington, a writer and map maker based in New York;  Max Liboiron, an assistant professor of geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland; Elizabeth Losh, an associate professor of English and American studies at the College of William and Mary in Virginia; Tara McPherson, a professor at the University of Southern California鈥檚 School of Cinematic Arts; Marisa Parham, a professor of English at Amherst College in Massachusetts; Jacqueline Wernimont, an associate professor of women鈥檚, gender and sexuality studies at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; and Darren Wershler, an associate professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.

兔子先生传媒文化作品 will also provide lab tours and presentations of the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship; the Media Archaeology Lab; the Unstable Design Lab; Nature, Environment, Science and Technology Studio for the Arts; and Blow Things Up Lab.

The symposium will take place on Wednesday, April 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 兔子先生传媒文化作品鈥檚 Norlin Library, room N410. Lab tours will be led on Thursday, April 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., also beginning in the Norlin Library, room N410, and then at each lab鈥檚 location starting at 10:30 a.m.

The event is co-organized by Professor and Director of Digital Scholarship for the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship Thea Lindquist, PhD Candidate and Curator of the Media Archaeology Lab Maya Livio, and Associate Professor and Director of the Media Archaeology Lab Lori Emerson. Major sponsors for the symposium are the Media Archaeology Lab and the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship. A list of and additional information can be found on the symposium鈥檚 .

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If you go:

What: 鈥淲hat is a Feminist Lab?鈥� Symposium

Who: Free and open to the public, with seats available on a first come, first served basis

When: Wednesday, April 17, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday, April 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Where: Norlin Library Room N410 on April 17th and on April 18th beginning at Norlin Library N410, then at each lab鈥檚 location starting at 10:30am

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Casey Fiesler studies the intersection between law, ethics and social media.

Did you know researchers are reading and analyzing your tweets and Facebook posts in the name of science?

If so, how do you feel about it? If you feel unsettled, what would make you feel better?

What鈥檚 legal and what鈥檚 not in the age of big-data research? And even if it is legal, is it ethical?

These are some of the questions Casey Fiesler, an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at 兔子先生传媒文化作品, will explore as part of a multicenter, $3 million National Science Foundation grant announced this month.

The four-year, six-institution  (Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research) project aims to come up with guidance for researchers, policymakers and consumers around a burgeoning and at times controversial field so new it lacks widely accepted ethical standards.

鈥淭hanks to the internet we now have this vast amount of information about human behavior that can help us answer very important questions,鈥� says Fiesler, noting researchers mine everything from tweets to Instagram photos to publicly shared health data and comments on news articles. 鈥淭his is great for science, but we have to make sure that the ways we go about answering these questions are ethical and take into account the privacy and ownership concerns of the people creating the data.鈥�

Fiesler received more than $400,000 which she will use to assess user knowledge and perceptions of big-data research and its legal and ethical implications.

鈥淎s technology changes, ethical norms have to constantly evolve to keep up,鈥� she says. 鈥淛ust because data is easy to get doesn鈥檛 mean we should do whatever we like with it.鈥�

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Story and photos by Carina Julig, junior (Jour)

This year鈥檚 CMCI Connect event included more than 300 students, all eager to make friends, meet professors and kick off their college careers. The annual event serves as a welcome for freshman students and others transferring to the college.

鈥淪tudents do better when they feel like they鈥檙e entering a community,鈥� said Cindy White, the associate dean of Undergraduate Curriculum and Programs who greeted students at the event. 鈥淐MCI Connect makes visible that we鈥檙e here because we need to know each other to be able to do this work.鈥�

Student recruitment and outreach manager Shelby Javernick, who developed the event, said she hoped it would help students to start thinking of themselves as part of CMCI, and about what skills and values they can bring to the college.

Throughout the day, students participated in team building activities facilitated by fellow student team leaders. In the afternoon, CMCI professors arrived to meet students and judge activities. Rick Stevens, an associate professor of media studies, is excited to see how the new class progresses, and hoped the event "gave students an idea of what being a CMCI major would look like," he said.

This year鈥檚 freshman class will be the largest ever at CMCI, with 370 incoming students from 34 different states and six different countries. "This represents a 30 percent increase in class size," Javernick said.

At CMCI Connect, participation nearly doubled that of last year with students from each major present.

鈥淚 wouldn鈥檛 have known that there were so many different people within CMCI,鈥� said Maddie Eye, a freshman Communication major. 鈥淚 thought all of them would be people who wanted to be on stage like me, but a lot of them are very behind the scenes, too.鈥�

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Students! We wanted to inform you of some opportunities to get involved within CMCI. Below is a list of student groups and their first meeting times and locations. They're open to all majors. Did we miss something? Email us.

• CMCI Student Government: Sept. 6 at 5 p.m., UMC 404
• Advertising Club: Sept. 6 at 6 p.m., HUMN 1B80
• Buffs Sports Live: Sept. 8 at 3:30 p.m., ATLAS 2B32
• PRSSA (Public Relations Student Society of America): Sept. 13 at 5p.m., Armory 218

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Sweaty palms, jitters, nerves, adrenaline鈥攊n college they happen whether you鈥檙e about to step into an arena, onto a stage or into a make-or-break final. How well you manage and prepare for those quiet, anxious moments often determines success during the main event.

That鈥檚 the theme of this year鈥檚 兔子先生传媒文化作品 Pac-12 commercial, which airs during each Buffaloes football game and on the Pac-12 Network.

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