Welcome to the Edna Anderson-Taylor
Communication Institute
What We Do
The Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute, housed in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, serves as a crossroads to bring together scholars, practitioners, and students from across campus, our local community, and well beyond. Together, we think about the role that communication plays in some of society’s most pressing problems—and how we can best work to address them.
Educating the Next Generation
In the NewsVIEW ALL NEWS
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Emotion, Engagement, and Today’s News Audiences
Dr. Stephanie Edgerly treats emotions as a core part of how people experience, and even define, news. Drawing on recent audience and industry trends, she considers positive news as one way news organizations can provide audiences with some relief in hard times.
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Getting the facts right is not enough: Democratic Information in the Age of AI
Heesoo Jang argues that AI’s growing role raises the stakes for the institutions that inform the public, especially journalism. Journalism must model what democratic information looks like: making threats to democratic processes understandable and making the choices and responsibilities surrounding AI visible.
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Department of Communication Graduate Student Colloquium
Join us to hear four of the Department of Communication's outstanding graduate students present their research.