Category: Critical Media Studies

Dr. Anne Balsamo joined former Apple advertising executive Henry Whitfield to discuss the computer company’s early marketing strategies.

Academy Award-winning director and artist Domee Shi brought inspiration, encouragement and excitement to The University of Texas at Dallas campus, where she accepted the 2023 Richard Brettell Award in the Arts. Shi won a 2018 Oscar for the animated short film “Bao” and was nominated for another one this year for Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red,” […]

The Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, & Technology School leadership appointed Dr. Heidi Rae Cooley as the new program head of the arts, technology, and emerging communication and of critical media studies.  Dr. Cooley, associate professor at the Bass School, is among four UT Dallas faculty members selected this year to lead […]

Members of the ArtSciLab excelled in a nationwide NASA challenge focused on replicating Martian environments for astronaut training.

Situated on the 3rd floor of the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building, the Bass School’s GML boasts over 600 games – both board and virtual, movies, TV shows, and books, all free for students’ access for leisure or research purposes.

Members of the UT Dallas community can interact with vintage Apple computers at the latest installment in the ATC Building! The Media Archeology Lab (MAL) invites visitors to experience an iMac G3 system running vintage software from the turn of the century. “I call them the jellybeans because of their bright colors,” said Dr. Anne […]

The Humanities Without Walls (HWW) consortium selected Kathryn Whitlock MA’21, a Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology PhD student, for a highly competitive career exploration program in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Whitlock, a second-year PhD student in Critical Media Studies, is among 25 doctoral candidates in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who […]

University of Texas at Dallas technology experts dispelled misconceptions and highlighted advantages of a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that has stirred growing chatter about its power to change communication, education and the workforce. “Students could potentially use it to get their homework done,” said Dr. Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science and one of […]

By Office of Media Relations | Sept. 15, 2022 The University of Texas at Dallas welcomed one of its largest groups of new tenured and tenure-track faculty members with 43 of them joining the University this year, including many who started this fall. The professors bring an array of expertise in disciplines ranging from art history and game […]

Eight A&H graduate students in film studies recently had the opportunity to present their research at a major industry conference. The virtual annual conference was organized by The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), a leading scholarly organization in the United States for research in film, media, and TV studies, The students presented on […]