News from the School of IAS

Book chapter by Toft published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!”

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft has published “Cross-talk in political discourse: Strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now!” in the edited volume, “Doing Politics. Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse” published by John Benjamins in 2018. 真人线上娱乐 book brings together selected articles from a 2017 conference on “Political Discourse” in the UK. In the chapter, Toft presents a ...

January 15, 2019

Community Radio Journalism students offer free workshops at area LPFM stations

真人线上娱乐s in BISMCS 343D Community Radio Journalism were excited to facilitate two workshops on public affairs programming in November 2018. 真人线上娱乐 first workshop was held at SPACE 101.1 FM KMPG-LP at Magnuson Park, on Saturday Nov 17th from 9am-12pm, where participants learned how to record and edit a Vox Pop. 真人线上娱乐 second workshop was held at 96.9 FM KODX-LP in the University District, on Thursday Nov 29th from 6-9pm, where they ...

January 15, 2019

Brannan Widdis has feature about KBFG aired on KBCS

IAS student Brannan Widdis (Media & Communication Studies) had his feature aired on KBCS 91.3 FM as part of the daily Morning Blend program. 真人线上娱乐 news feature was developed in Toft’s Community Radio Journalism course (BISMCS 343), and explored a new Low Power FM station called KBFG-LP - “a little station with a big heart” that covers Ballard, Freemont and Greenwood. You can hear ...

January 15, 2019

Toft awarded top paper for “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!”

IAS faculty member Amoshaun Toft presented two papers at the National Communication Association in Salt Lake City, one of which – “Talking across movements on Democracy Now!” – received the Top Paper award in the Communication as Social Construction division. Building on earlier exploratory research on the Civil Rights movement as narrative bridge, the paper argues ...

January 15, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk reviews Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost Of

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk reviews Nguyen's first book of poems, Ghost Of, in Lana Turner 11. Combining lyric reflections and visual poetry in invented forms, Nguyen's book explores the after-effects of her brother's suicide, which was preceded by his careful excision of himself from family photos in her parents' home. 真人线上娱乐 gaps left behind become frames or nets in which Nguyen's language is caught as she tries to reconstruct her missing sibling. Borsuk writes:

January 14, 2019

Melanie Malone publishes an article on how to track herbicides in Science of 真人线上娱乐 Total Environment

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article on how to track herbicides in Science of 真人线上娱乐 Total Environment. 真人线上娱乐 article considers the relation between no-till agriculture and herbicide use. It deploys multiple methods – spatial analysis of remote sensing satellite imagery of vegetation health along streams; use of a drone fitted with an agricultural camera to detect vegetation health; and soil, sediment, and water sampling for the most commonly used herbicides in the study area – to show where stream vegetation health continues to ...

January 2, 2019

Dan Berger publishes introduction to new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla

IAS faculty member Dan Berger published a lengthy introduction in the new edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla. A photo essay authored by two journalists with unprecedented access to Washington's infamous prison, Concrete Mama was first published in 1981 and won a Washington State Book Award before going out of print. 真人线上娱乐 University of Washington Press has just republished the book in connection with the UW Library. Berger will join Concrete Mama author John McCoy, formerly incarcerated activists ...

January 2, 2019

Mira Shimabukuro’s Relocating Authority reviewed

In December 2018, IAS Associate Dean and faculty member, Mira Shimabukuro, received three glowing reviews of her book, Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration: “Review of Relocating Authority” in Community Literacy, “Reconciling Past and Place through Rhetorics of Peacemaking, Accountability, and Human Rights in the Archives” in College Composition and Communication, and ...

January 2, 2019

Simone de Rochefort finds success as digital media journalist

IAS alum Simone de Rochefort (’13, Culture, Literature & the Arts) produces videos for Polygon, a top website for video game news and reviews. While her affinity for video games began long before college, the possibility of building a career around this passion crystalized at UW Bothell. “I would not be where I am today ...

January 2, 2019