communication and media studies

Latino: The Changing Face of America is a new documentary by Los Angeles-born filmmaker and UCSB alumna Roxanne Frias. She discusses the film's glimpse into the future of the world’s biggest economy, a future in which Latinos will form the largest demographic group. The discussion includes Chicano Studies & History Professor Mario Garcia and Cristina Venegas of UCSB Film and Media Studies. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31623]

Michelle Dougherty, co-director of Sonic Sea, discusses this film that traces the connections between increased man-made ocean noise and fatal stress on ocean life. Michael Hanrahan, an educator and filmmaker who teaches environmental media storytelling at the University of California, Santa Barbara, moderates. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 31415]

A panel of experts discusses the PBS NOVA program Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped? and the disease itself. Join Kenneth Kosik, MD (Co-Director Neuroscience Research Institute UC Santa Barbara), Sarah Holt (Producer and Director HHMI/Tangled Bank Studios), and Rhonda Spiegel (CEO, Alzheimer’s Association, California Central Chapter) and Francisco Lopera, MD (Professor of Behavioral Neurology, Chief of Neurosciences Program-University of Antioquia, Coordinator Group of Neurosciences of Antioquia). The discussion is moderated by Julia Cort, Deputy Executive Producer for NOVA. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31017]

Luciana Kaplan, director of the award-winning documentary La Revolución de los Alcatraces, talks about the genesis of her film and its subject, Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza, who was elected mayor of her town but her victory was taken away because she was a woman. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31021]

Cairo Drive is a documentary exploration of Egyptian identity and change spanning the critical period before the revolution and up to the most recent presidential elections. Shot from 2009 to 2012 the film portrays the congested streets through encounters in traffic with taxi drivers, ambulance, traffic cops, and private citizens. The director Sherief Elkatsha talks with Professors Laila Shereen Sakr and Dick Hebdige from the UCSB Department of Film and Media Studies. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30804]

David Gerrold, influential contemporary sci-fi writer and creator of genre-defining works such as the enduringly popular Star Trek episode, The Trouble With Tribbles, discusses his career across many media platforms to provide unique and valuable insights into the evolution and changing nature of the genre. Gerrold is interviewed by Word Farm Director Joe Palladino. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30866]

A panel of UCSB alumni working in the technical, creative, and producing areas discuss career paths both "above and below the line" for women in the entertainment industry. Panelists include: Entertainment publicist and Film and Media Studies alum, Brittany Sandler (moderator), Brittany Vu (Film and Television Development at MASproduction), Laura Foody (Entertainment Lawyer at Anonymous Content), Andulka "Annie" Wilkes (Editor at Moving Art), Lauren Haroutunian (Cinematographer and Dean of RocketJump Film School), and Stephanie Choi (Set Lighting Technician/Director). Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Business] [Show ID: 31020]

This panel of women with successful careers in media looks at some of today's leading women writers, directors, and producers. Panelists include: Starshine Roshell (moderator), Jane Espenson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Once Upon a Time, Warehouse 13), and Anne Cofell Saunders (Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Chuck, The Small Ship, Revolution). Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Business] [Show ID: 31019]

The film Still Alice explores early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This panel at UCSB discusses the film and the troubling issues it explores. Donna Beal - Alzheimer’s Association, Patricia Cline Cohen - Department of History at UCSB, Kenneth Kosik - Neuroscience Research Institute at UCSB. Moderator - Laury Oaks - Feminist Studies at UCSB. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 30803]

Wonder how research happening at UC San Diego translates into real-world benefits? Find out as six faculty members illuminate the collaborative approach used to understand and address complex issues within the broad research themes of understanding cultures and addressing disparities in society, and exploring the basis of human knowledge, learning, and creativity. Series: "UC San Diego Founders’ Symposium" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Agriculture] [Education] [Show ID: 29857]

Wonder how research happening at UC San Diego translates into real-world benefits? Find out as six faculty members illuminate the collaborative approach used to understand and address complex issues within the broad research themes of understanding cultures and addressing disparities in society, and exploring the basis of human knowledge, learning, and creativity. Series: "UC San Diego Founders’ Symposium" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Agriculture] [Education] [Show ID: 29857]

A fundamental of scientific analysis is the rejection of stories. Anecdotes can mislead you and solid analysis of the data is needed to ensure that coincidence is not mistaken for correlation. But one of the fundamentals of communication is the human need for stories to make an emotional connection to the information provided. Lucy Jones, Science Advisor for Risk Reduction, U.S. Geological Survey, explores the successes and challenges in bridging this gap between scientists and the larger public. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 30176]

Jay Kogen, Writer/ Executive Producer of the "Simpsons" is interviewed by UCSB professor Cheri Steinkellner. In addition to Homer and the gang, Kogen has written and produced for Malcolm in the Middle, Frasier and many others. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29141]

Journalist Daniel Heimpel describes how his exploration of the foster care system in California led him to create a solutions-based style of reporting that he now teaches to UC Berkeley public policy, journalism and social welfare students, as well as those enrolled in UCB’s Journalism for Social Change MOOC. Heimpel is joined by former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and Dean Henry E. Brady in the Living Room at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Education] [Show ID: 28970]

Writer and Editor Marv Wolfman discusses the art and craft of writing compelling stories with emotionally complex characters and imaginative plots for comics, animation, video games and everything in between. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 24137]

Angela Davis visited UC Santa Barbara for a screening of "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners," a documentary by Shola Lynch that chronicles Davis's life as a young, outspoken UCLA professor. Angela Davis and producer Sidra Smith answer questions from the audience. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 25917]

In his new book “Sounds of Capitalism,” UCLA musicologist Timothy D. Taylor tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows to the rise of the jingle, the postwar rise in consumerism and the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after. Here he discusses the awkward transition early 20th century advertisers endured as they adjusted to the new medium of radio. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 24026]

Timothy D. Taylor is professor in the department of ethnomusicology and musicology at UCLA. In his new book, “Sounds of Capitalism,” he tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows to the rise of the jingle, the postwar rise in consumerism and the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after. Series: "Writers" [Humanities] [Show ID: 23820]

Eli Pariser, former executive editor of MoveOn.org and author of “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You” provides an eye-opening exposé of personal data-mining on the web. In this chilling account, he explains how powerful business interests control the information the public can see on line, while allowing others access to everything about consumers. Series: "Revelle Forum" [Humanities] [Show ID: 21525]

Mira Nair films, Salaam Bombay, Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, illuminate the ambiguities of the immigrant experience and highlight the conflicts between modern and traditional cultures. She is joined for a discussion of modern cinema by Gayatri Gopinath and Juli Wyman, both of UC Davis. Series: "Mondavi Center Presents" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 11981]