Serious Play will be hosting a talk and panel discussion on Gamergate by Alexis Dalbey, Steve Cuff, and Rachel Kinnard in the Digital Humanities Lab in the 2nd Floor East Wing of the Golda Meir Library. Gamergate was an online... Read More
Natasha Schüll, M.I.T. Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Addiction by Design: From Slot Machines to Candy Crush. Slot machines, revamped by ever-more compelling technological innovations, have unseated traditional table games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay. Along the way, they... Read More
On April 29, Professor Miriam Petty (Northwestern University, Radio/Television/Film) will be coming to UWM for a public lecture. Professor Petty’s book, Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood, about to be released by the University of... Read More
Author and sportscaster Jessie Garcia provides insights into lives of Wisconsinites who made an Olympic journey, sharing some of their most captivating tales, from legendary feats to unlikely brushes with glory. Featuring the athletes' personal stories and pictures from private collections, Going for... Read More
The Media Scholars Colloquium Series proudly presents "The Privacy of Others," a lecture by Stacy Blasiola (Ph.D. Candidate, Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago; National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow - Electronic Security & Privacy; Lecturer, Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies,... Read More
Looking backwards from our own era of struggling American newspapers, the first half of the twentieth century may appear to have been an era of thriving local journalism. But during those decades, much of the local papers’ content was actually... Read More
It is a great time to be a Milwaukee-area sports fan, with the Milwaukee Bucks advancing to the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals this past season, the Milwaukee Brewers making another run towards the playoffs after last year’s thrilling National League... Read More
The Milwaukee Press Club loves UWM students! Check out this event: Have you ever wanted to bend the ear of the publisher or editor of your favorite local news publication? Have you ever wanted to drink a cold beverage with... Read More
Fame has always been shaped by new technologies and changing conceptions of the self. Houdini was the last of the steam-age celebrities, whose fame grew from many of the same developments – transcontinental railroads, teeming cities, and an industrialized press... Read More