Department of Communication

Facebook released Facebook Lite, a 'slimmed-down' version of its app that gives users in low-data areas increased access to Facebook. UW's Katy Pearce, professor of communication, is quoted.

How you carry yourself in a job interview makes as much of an impression as the words you say. Valerie Manusov, a communications professor at the UW, is quoted.

Newly minted UW alum Austin Williams has built What's Good 206 into a go-to website for positive stories.

Seattle will host the third EcoCAR competition from May 29 to June 4, marking the competition's first visit to the city. Communication major, Kate Kitto, manages communications for the UW team.

A group of "data artists" is creating conceptual works using information collected by mobile apps, scientists and more. Gina Neff, author and associate professor of communication at the UW, is quoted.

Media distribution evolves. Today, only about half of us watch traditional TV. Kathy Gill, lecturer in communication at the UW, compares streaming video options.

An audio documentary about young activists in the former Soviet Union earns UW faculty a top journalism award.

Nora Strothman talks about a bench placed at the University of Washington in honor of her husband Bill, a graduate of economics and communication who died in a helicopter crash.

David Horsey is a two-time Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist who graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in communication in 1975.

The group of 52 plans to see people and places that were key to the civil-rights efforts in the 1950s and 1960s, and are still important today.

KUOW's Bill Radke asked Hanson Hosein, director of the Communication Leadership program at the University of Washington about the FCC's latest ruling.

How do we have those difficult and often awkward conversations? KUOW put that question to Ralina Joseph, associate professor of communication.

UW Communications Professor Philip Howard weighs in on this generation's digital 'gateway drug for activism.'

Twitter hashtags adorned posters at protests across the country Saturday. Philip Howard, professor of communication, is quoted.

Books make great gifts. Books by Arts & Sciences alumni? Even better. Here are some recent arrivals, from fiction to nonfiction to memoir to poetry.