Accomplishments: Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies
On Oct. 27, Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) was awarded a Black Mountain Institute Faculty Research Award funding his research on "Creative Labor in the Age of AI." He plans to interview and document participants in the Las Vegas creative economy, building on his previous projects exploring emerging technologies, labor, and creative鈥
Professor Gregory Borchard (Journalism and Media Studies) was re-elected by acclamation for a second term as President of the Society of Nineteenth Century Historians during the 33rd Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press at Augusta University on Nov. 14, 2025.
Yvonne Houy (Fine Arts) and Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) gave a presentation at the Elsevier Impact Conference in Cascais, Portugal, on Nov. 6, 2025. The presentation, 鈥淶ero Budget by Design: Lessons learned engaging a global community without a budget," was based on their experiences editing the open-access journal Tradition-鈥
Aya Shata (Journalism and Media Studies) was a speaker and moderator for a panel titled "AI in Advertising: How It鈥檚 Changing the Creative Workflow," organized by the American Advertising Federation. It was a thought-provoking discussion on how AI is transforming ideation, design, copywriting, production, and execution in the creative industries,鈥
Arthur D. Soto-V谩squez (Journalism and Media Studies) was elected vice-chair of the Popular Media and Culture Division in the International Communication Association. He will serve as vice-chair beginning in 2026 through 2028. He will then serve as chair of the division from 2028 to 2030.
Arthur D. Soto-V谩squez (Journalism and Media Studies) recently published "Border and Immigration as Etiological Myth in U.S. Right-Wing Politics" in Communication Studies. In the article, the author examines how causal arguments related to borders and immigration are deployed to diagnose a wide range of social ills, including housing鈥
Arthur D. Soto-V谩squez (Journalism and Media Studies), with co-authors Rasika Muralidharan (Indiana University), Mar铆a Montenegro (Rutgers University), and Danny Valdez (Indiana University), recently published "Analysis of Breast Cancer Information on Facebook Using Neural Network鈥揃ased Topic Modeling and Metadata Analysis of English and Spanish鈥
Gregory Borchard and Denitsa Yotova (both Journalism and Media Studies) have co-authored Pressing Matters: A Chronicle of American Media (New York: Peter Lang), 2025; 332 pages, ISBN-13: 9781636675381.
They write: "Given the highly globalized and converged sets of communication technologies in the contemporary media landscape,鈥
Aya Shata (Journalism and Media Studies) at 性视界传媒 and co-author Michelle Seelig from the University of Miami published an article titled, "Making the Environment Like A Cool Thing:鈥 Exploring generation Z and Millennials鈥 reception of climate change videos on YouTube," in the Atlantic Journal of Communication.
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Associate professor Julian Kilker (Journalism and Media Studies) co-curated and exhibited work in "At the Heart of Basin and Range." This exhibit, sponsored by Nevada Humanities, an independent state humanities council affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and exhibited at its downtown program gallery, celebrates鈥
Brett Abarbanel (International Gaming Institute), Benjamin Burroughs (Journalism and Media Studies), and Mark Johnson from the University of Sydney have published an article titled, "A New History of Poker Spectatorship: Table Chat, Online Forums, Television Piracy, and Twitch" in the journal International Gambling Studies. Histories of poker鈥
Arthur D. Soto-V谩squez (Journalism and Media Studies), with co-authors, was awarded a Top Paper Award (Runner-Up) in the Global Media Division at the 75th Annual Convention of the International Communication Association. There he presented a co-authored paper entitled "Populist Connective Memories: YouTube Users' Reactions to the Coverage of the鈥