The Center is especially focused on Latin America and its Miami diaspora, but also has initiatives in Africa and many other parts of the world.
With a focus on using communication for social and behavioral change through engaged scholarship and immersive experience, the Center for Communication, Culture, and Change seeks to address urgent societal issues, and make a positive difference in people’s lives. The Center’s projects are geared to discovering communication’s contribution to accelerated, but sustainable, participatory change. Whil
03/31/2022
Thank you to everyone who helped make Research Day a success, including those who presented the results of their internal awards as well as those who talked about their grant-funded research. Huge thanks to everyone who helped support our scholarly community by attending! (Special shout out to Dia Kontaxis for bringing the gorgeous orchids!)
03/25/2022
It seems fitting that our first in-person research event is the School of Communication’s annual Research Day! Looking forward to reconnecting with the faculty and graduate students who are doing highly impactful work. The UM community is invited to stop by from 11-4 for presentations and from 4-5:30 for a reception on the CIB terrace on the 3rd floor.
02/11/2022
School of Communication faculty are working on interdisciplinary research teams that are making a big impact on real-world problems faced by our communities. Three of the four grant-funded teams featured here have representation from School of Communication!
U-LINK advances exploration of complex problems From focusing on the immediate threat of an impending weather to helping cities respond to climate change impacts, projects from the University of Miami Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge have made great headway in their research.
10/29/2021
Professor and Public Voices Fellow Christina M. Lane has published a powerful OpEd in Ms. Magazine. In it, she provides historical context for the movement. Were women in Hollywood better off 100 years ago? https://msmagazine.com/2021/10/28/times-up-hollywood-sexual-abuse-progress-inclusion-diverse-opportunity-believe-women/?fbclid=IwAR0DpdmyK1FHntOFbBKSajhR0TDh7UJevpam6RQk50YnPXXYv-HdaMvly9I
#TimesUp: Hollywood's Lack of Progress, Inclusion, Diverse Opportunity and Failure to Believe In All Women - Ms. Magazine brought a reckoning to the entertainment industry, calling out sexual abuse. Hollywood continues to fail women, especially women of color.
06/08/2020
Interview with our Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, Alberto Cairo:
The "flatten the curve" chart was ugly and not exactly rigorous. Here's why it worked so well. "Charts are not illustrations. Charts are arguments."
05/26/2020
When Interpreting Data Visualizations and Graphics, Read the Fine Print By: Kristian A. Rodriguez Alberto Cairo, a visual communications expert in the School of Communication, explains how data journalism is helping the world to understand the impact of the coronavirus. Shocking statistics are so prevalent these days, but you need to pay close attention to
03/11/2020
UM Professor Wins Sigma Journalism Award By: Jabria Roscoe Alberto Cairo, a world-renowned data journalist and associate professor, is the co-winner of a Sigma Journalism award for his work on the project Zones of Silence (ZOS). The project is a collaboration between Cairo, El Universal daily newspaper in Mexico, and the Google News Initia...
03/05/2020
University filmmakers’ work hits the screen at Miami Film Festival Six films created by University of Miami faculty members, students, and alumni will be screened at the Miami Film Festival, which begins March 6.
02/12/2020
Be sure to stop by the 4C tomorrow for a special photovoice presentation and discussion by a graduate student research team. "Food: Our Common Ground" will be shown from 12:00-1:00 p.m., February 13th, Wolfson 1021.
02/10/2020
Congratulations to Tom Musca for his film Chateau Vato being selected for te Miami Fim Festival. This film was partially funded by a SoC Creative and Research Activity grant.
02/05/2020
Please join us tomorrow for our special guest, Arvind Singhal from the University of Texas at El Paso. Thursday, February 6, 2020. 11:00 a.m. in Wolfson 1021.
02/04/2020
This project was partially funded by a Research and Creative Activity Award. Congrats, Christina!
'Phantom Lady': Bio of the woman behind Hitchcock A ghost comes to vibrant life in Christina Lane’s “Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock.” Harrison is the ghost, or the titular phantom. Aside from film
