UVA's Department of Media Studies analyzes media culture, technology, labor, literacy, policy, infrastructure, and inequity. Our goal is to provide students with the tools to evaluate and shape media. With global reach, our faculty and students examine media from a variety of perspectives that include media history, aesthetics and form, audience analysis, media uses, the impact of media on public opinion, and the relations between media and the law.
Blue Milk and Other Short Stories
Visiting Artist Talk followed by Q&A.
Double Happiness, the public art piece dedicated to the UVA Asian American community
Please join Prof. Amy Chan and the UVA Library on Friday, April 12 from 2-4pm to celebrate, "Double Happiness, the public art piece dedicated to the UVA Asian American community. The reception will take place in the 2nd floor Study Courts of Shannon Library. Remarks will be made at 2:15pm, and food from Chimm will be served. This reception is generously sponsored by the UVA Library’s Idea Division
Conjoined twins Abby, Brittany Hensel back in spotlight after wedding speculation. It's gone too far
Elizabeth Ellcessor in USA Today.
The Music Beat: This UVA Lecturer Turns Up the Sound on Silent Film
Matt Marshall in UVA Today.
Major Shifts
Media Studies in Virginia Magazine.
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories
Social Webs and Digital Threads: How Relational Dependencies Enable Cuban Internet Ecosystems
Dr. Thomas is the third speaker in this semester's speaker series, made possible by the Latin American Studies Program and the Department of Media Studies.
Future Paradise: Synthesis and Stevie Wonder's Classic Period
UVA Music Department Colloquium with Professor Jack Hamilton.
The Prehistory of Social Media
Did you ever use a BBS? Long before online forums and communities like Reddit and Discord, people connected through bulletin board systems (BBSs). During their heyday in the 1980s and '90s, millions of people dialed their modems into more than 100,000 BBSs.
Join us to hear Kevin Driscoll, author of the award-winning book The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, and technology and society expert danah boyd discuss the innovative world of BBSs and how they shaped the ongoing evolution of social media and the internet.
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May 3, 2024
Aniko Bodroghkozy featured in Time.
April 26, 2024
Congratulations to Tyler Williams on the publication of his book!
April 22, 2024
Anna Katherine Clay on National Public Radio's Radio IQ.