NBC Page Program Info Session
2019-05-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Please join the Manager of the West Coast NBC Page Program for a virtual Informational Session on the immersive 12-month rotational professional development program.

George Oliver Award Banquet 2019
2019-05-23 18:00 - 21:00
Celebrate the 2018-2019 team accomplishments and the bestowing of the Distinguished George Oliver Award.Business casual attire. Food and refreshments will be provided.RSVP Required.For more information on the UCLA Debate Union and how you can get involved, please visit www.ucladebateunion.com.

Alumni Recruiters Mock Interviews for Communication
2019-05-29 08:00 - 17:00
Interviewing for a job is a skill. Like all skills, it takes practice. Mock interviews are a great way to gain experience, practice interview skills, receive feedback, and improve performance. Each interview will be 30 minutes and includes specific feedback from an Alumni Recruiter from Warner Bros, Dream Works and Disney. Sign up for an appointment for May 29th 2019.

Partnership UCLA: Women in Sports Media Career Panel
2019-06-05 18:00 - 20:00
Women in Sports Media Career PanelPlease join us for a panel featuring inspiring alumnae and friends of UCLA who will share their experiences as women working in sports media, including challenges they have faced and how they’ve stayed resilient in a male-dominated industry. Additional career questions, such as those you submit below, will also be part of the discussion.This free event is open to all years, majors and genders.Wednesday June 5th, 20196-8pm1234 Public Affairs BuildingRSVPPanelists:Nikki Kay ’13Sports Reporter at Spectrum LANicole Labrow ’98Vice President, Partnership Development at Home Team Sports, a division of Fox Sports Media GroupErin McMullen Senior Director, Programming at FOX SportsLindsey Pallares ’13Padres Bilingual Digital Reporter at FOX Sports West, Prime Ticket, FOX Sports San Diego

Undergraduate Newly Admitted Comm Major and Senior Orientation
2019-09-25 10:00 - 14:00
ATTN COMM UNDERGRADS:There will be a Communication Department Orientation on Wednesday, September 25 from 10:00-11:30am (for newly admitted continuing UCLA and transfer students) and 1:00-2:00pm (for seniors) in 1200 Rolfe Hall. It is very important that you attend.Newly Admitted Students: You will be given important information regarding planning your class schedule, learning about the internship program and career possibilities, “Double Majors”, and an explanation of the Department requirements. You will have an opportunity to ask questions about the Communication curriculum and its function in completing your Bachelor of Arts Degree.Seniors: All of the above (if you are not familiar with it), and preparing for admission to graduate school, career paths, and planning for graduation (the actual day).

Partnership UCLA: Career Counseling
2019-10-03 12:00 - 2019-12-12 13:30
Partnership UCLA/Alumni Career Programs welcome the opportunity to assist UCLA Communications students in achieving their career goals. To that end, Associate Director of Alumni Career Programs Amanda Raymond will be hosting 15-minute express drop-in hours throughout the quarter on Thursdays, 12:00pm-1:30 p.m. in the Communication Project Room (ROLFE 2310) – first come, first served. Advising Topics:Networking Advice and AssistanceInterview PreparationJob and Internship Search Strategies Resume and Cover letter CritiqueGeneral Career Advice If you are interested in a deeper dive please feel free to contact Amanda Raymond: araymond@partnership.ucla.edu to set up an appointment.

Comm Information Session Nov 13 @ 10am in Perloff 1102
2019-11-13 10:00 - 11:00

3rd Annual Barry A. Sanders Lecture on Communication & the Arts
2019-11-19 18:00 - 21:00
The UCLA Department of Communicationinvites you to the 3rd annualBarry A. Sanders Lecture onCommunication and the ArtsbyBeth MorrisonPresident and Creative Producer, Beth Morrison ProjectsIndie Opera and New Musicfollowed by a conversation withChristopher KoelschPresident and CEO, LA OperaTuesday, November 19, 20196:00 p.m.Reception to followCalifornia NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)UCLARegistration required; seating is limited.Click here to RSVPParking available for $13 in Structure 9 About the series: The Barry A. Sanders Lecture on Communication and the Arts is a series of lectures that feature prominent thinkers associated with the arts as performers, visual artists, composers, critics, scientists, and philosophers. The lectures invite them to write and speak about the process and effects of nonverbal communication in the arts. Speakers will discuss how visual, auditory, symbolic, and other forms of expression convey meaning and create dialogue through their work and the work of others.Learn more about Beth Morrison

Virtual conversations with UCLA experts featuring Professor Kerri Johnson
2020-05-19 15:00 - 16:00

Comm Virtual Information Session - Register here!
2020-11-18 10:00 - 23:00 | Haines 39, Haines 39
Questions about the
UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR?
For more information about our program we invite you to attend our
INFORMATION SESSION
Wednesday, November 18 from 10am-11am
Please REGISTER for the event here to receive Zoom details.
We look forward to seeing you!
If you have any questions please contact Pia Svenson at psvenson@comm.ucla.edu

Chat with the Chair
2020-12-04 11:00 - 12:00
The Department of Communication is excited to invite our undergraduate majors to a special virtual event with Professor Kerri Johnson, Department Chair!

Comm Information Session
2021-11-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Haines 39, Haines 39
Questions about the UNDERGRADUATE COMMUNICATION MAJOR?
For more information about our program we invite you to attend our quarterly
** INFORMATION SESSION **
Wednesday, November 10 at 10am
in Rolfe 3126
We look forward to seeing you!

Brown Bag Speaker Series: C. Malik Boykin, Ph.D.
2021-12-02 11:00 - 12:00

Comm Brown Bag Talk: Seungbae Kim "Applied Machine Learning: Multi-Modal Graph Neural Network for Social Media Marketing"
2022-04-21 11:00 - 12:30 | Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff,
Please mark your calendars for our upcoming Brown Bag talk featuring Seungbae Kim!

When: Thursday, April 21, 11:00
Where: Rolfe 2303A

Dept. of Communication - Information Session
2022-05-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Haines 39, Haines 39

Comm Brown Bag Talk: Guadalupe (Lupita) Madrigal “We Won’t Give Amnesty to People with Kids”: The Effects of Integration, Family, and Community Cues in Immigration News
2022-05-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
Thursday, May 12 @ 11:00

Comm Brown Bag Talk: Silvia Pagliarini
2022-05-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
Thursday, May 19 @ 11:00

Censorship and the Visual Art in Los Angeles hosted by Professor Paul Von Blum
2022-05-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Rolfe 1200

Department of Communication Commencement
2022-06-12 10:30 - 13:30

Professor Shimon Edelman, Cornell University: Conscience, conditional cooperation, and the prospects of surviving capitalism
2022-06-23 11:00 - 12:30 | Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303

Winter 2023 Brown Bag series - Jennifer Whitson, UCLA Anderson School of Management
2023-01-19 11:00 - 12:15 | Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
Jennifer Whitson
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Title: Conspiracy Theories and the Search for Structure
Abstract: Conspiracy theories cast disparate or unrelated entities as engaging in concerted, malevolent action. In this talk, I explore antecedents and consequences of beliefs in conspiracy theories. I first present evidence that individual characteristics (i.e., regulatory focus, political identity) and aspects about the environment (i.e., COVID-19 and social media) shape peoples’ receptiveness to conspiratorial beliefs. I then examine a timely consequence of conspiracy theories. Specifically, how COVID-19-related conspiratorial beliefs have had a significant negative impact on the perception of COVID-19 vaccine importance in the U.S.. Finally, I suggest a possible intervention that may help ameliorate the adverse effect of conspiratorial beliefs. In particular, interdependent self-construal may mitigate the relationship between the COVID-19-related conspiratorial beliefs and reduced vaccination rates by increasing the perceived health risks of going unvaccinated. Our intervention differs from previous efforts in that it does not rely on rational persuasion to dissuade people of conspiratorial notions. Instead, we focus on reducing the impact of conspiratorial beliefs by altering the way people think about their existing identities and groups.

Ritwika Vallomparambath Panikkassery Sugasree - Brown Bag Talk
2023-02-09

Jennifer Pan - Brown Bag Talk "Digital Repression"
2023-02-16 11:00 - 23:59 | Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
Abstract: Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are meant to, or actually do, raise the costs of activism, protest, and/or social movement activity. The rise of digital and social media has brought substantial increases in attention to the repression of digital activists and movements and/or to the use of digital tools in repression, which is spread across many disciplines and areas of study. This paper organizes this growing welter of research under the concept of digital repression by expanding a typology that distinguishes actions based on actor type, whether actions are overt or covert, and whether behaviors are shaped by coercion or channeling. This delineation between broadly different forms of digital repression allows us to develop expectations about digital repression, better understand what is “new” about digital repression in terms of explanatory factors, and better understand the consequences of digital repression.

Measuring Media Accuracy workshop
2023-02-17 09:00 - 15:00
Colleagues,
The Measuring Media Accuracy workshop, funded by the Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership at UCLA, is on Friday February 17th at the Luskin Conference Center. The details are attached in pdf. The program is as follows:
9:15 Welcome, by Stuart Soroka (UCLA, website)
9:30 Robert Bond (Ohio State University, website)
10:30 Amber Boydstun (UC Davis, website)
11:30 Christopher Wlezien (UT Austin, website)
12:30 Lunch
1:45 Kasper Welbers (VU University Amsterdam, website)
2:45 Leticia Bode (Georgetown, website)
The workshop is open to any interested faculty or students at UCLA. You are welcome to come to some or all of the day. (I recommend all!) An RSVP would be helpful so we can plan appropriately — and it’s especially useful if you think you’d like to join us for lunch as well. You can RSVP here: https://forms.gle/ezcaM9BTqUev4y6G8
If you’ve any questions, please do get in touch. And I’ll hope to see you on the 17th!

Comm Information Session
2023-02-22 10:00 - 11:00
Questions about the
UNDERGRADUATE MAJOR?
For more information about our program we invite you to attend our quarterly
***INFORMATION SESSION***
Wednesday, Feburary 22 at 10am
Rolfe 3126
We look forward to seeing you!

Norah Dunbar - Brown Bag Talk
2023-03-16

Jeff Hancock - Brown Bag Talk
2023-04-27

Dept of Communication - Undergraduate Information Session
2023-05-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Dodd 175

Ashley Martin, Ph.D. - Brown Bag Talk
2023-05-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Comm Conference Room – Rolfe 2303
Gendered Cognition: The Primacy of Gender in Seeing Human
What does it mean to be (seen as) human? In this talk, I explore this question and show that the attribution of gender is a critical component of seeing someone—or something—as human. Given gender’s primacy in social cognition, I propose that gender is linked to “seeing human” in a way that cannot be said of other social categories (i.e., race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or disability). I test this hypothesis in a number of studies that induce humanization (i.e., anthropomorphism) and measure social-category ascription, as well as those that include (versus remove) gendered information and measure humanization. I then present new work that explores gendered cognition using “non-binary” stimuli and among non-binary individuals. Finally, I explore the implications of gendered cognition for people’s preferences for, and attachment to, gendered technology. These findings underscore the importance of gender in humanization and have theoretical and practical implications for research on gender, (de)humanization, and social cognition, as well as for current discussions on gender neutrality.

Natalie Kahn Colloquium in Communication speaker Ashley Martin from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Natalie Kahn and Roy Patience
2023-05-11 11:00 - 12:30
