
KTA Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award Announced
Aynne Kokas’ book Trafficking Data selected as a finalist for the Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha award in Journalism and Mass Communication.

December 1, 2023
William Little and alum Micah Rucci in UVA Today.

November 9, 2023
Aynne Kokas in Forbes.

November 6, 2023
Mona Sloane in The Higher Ed Times.

November 1, 2023
Aniko Bodroghkozy in Slate.

October 26, 2023
Ashleigh Wade in the College of Arts & Sciences Newsletter.

October 23, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan on BBC World Service.

October 20, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan on CBC News.

September 26, 2023
Kevin Driscoll's book takes SIGCIS Computer History Museum Book Award.

September 15, 2023
Mona Sloane in UVA Today.

September 12, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

September 8, 2023
Ashleigh Wade in The Messenger.

September 8, 2023
Aynne Kokas’ book Trafficking Data selected as a finalist for the Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha award in Journalism and Mass Communication.

August 29, 2023
Anna Katherine Clay in The New York Times.

August 23, 2023
David Nemer featured in Wired.

August 22, 2023
Kevin Driscoll wins Association of Internet Researchers 2023 Book Award...congratulations!

August 1, 2023
Lana Swartz in Anthropology Today.

August 1, 2023
Lana Swartz in Journal of Cultural Economy.

August 1, 2023
Aynne Kokas essay published in Defending Democracy in an Age of Sharp Power.
August 1, 2023
Jack Hamilton in Slate.

July 27, 2023
Shilpa Davé, et al, win Comics Studies Society award.
July 21, 2023
Aynne Kokas testifies before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.
July 21, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.
July 21, 2023
Aynne Kokas on here & now anytime.

July 21, 2023
Kevin Driscoll in UVA Today.
July 17, 2023
Aniko Bodroghkozy in The Washington Post.
July 13, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

July 13, 2023
Aniko Bodroghkozy in UVA Today.

July 10, 2023
MDST major Sophia Celentano in CNN News.

July 10, 2023
Andrea Press presents research at IAMCR in Lyon, France.

June 29, 2023
Lana Swartz's book chosen by The Verge as one of the best tech books ever.
June 20, 2023
David Nemer awarded the 2023 APSA Information Technology and Politics Best Public-Facing Scholarship Award.
May 25, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.
May 10, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

May 4, 2023
David Nemer quoted in the Financial Times.

April 26, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan's podcast Democracy in Danger wins a Webby Award.

April 18, 2023
Mary Kurbanov quotes David Nemer in The Cavalier Daily.

April 14, 2023
David Nemer in the WBO Newsletter.

April 12, 2023
Mamadou Dia in UVA Today.
April 10, 2023
Shilpa Dave quoted in The Washington Post.

April 4, 2023
Anna Katherine Clay in UVA Today.
April 4, 2023
Anna Katherine Clay on Creative Principles podcast.
March 23, 2023
Aynne Kokas in the Los Angeles Times.
March 16, 2023
Aynne Kokas interviewed on AirTalk.

March 6, 2023
Kevin Driscoll in The Taper.
March 6, 2023
MDST Alum Steve Chancellor in Communications of the ACM.
March 6, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.
February 7, 2023
Lana Swartz report on design of Central Bank Currencies released.
February 7, 2023
Aynne Kokas in conversation at the Kluge Center.
January 11, 2023
David Nemer cited in The Guardian.

January 5, 2023
Aynne Kokas' new book makes War on the Rocks holiday reading list.

December 12, 2022
David Nemer awarded the Marcel Roche Prize for Technology of the Oppressed.

December 7, 2022
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The New Republic.

November 30, 2022
Lana Swartz quoted in The New Yorker.

November 21, 2022
Sakyra Abbitt, Jed Baul, Debbie Gao, Harry Zhen, Drew Lovett, Garreth Bartholomew, and Fara Islam in The Daily Progress.

November 21, 2022
Aynne Kokas on National Public Radio.

November 21, 2022
Aynne Kokas talks about her new book on The Cyberwire.

October 31, 2022
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

October 28, 2022
Jack Hamilton in Slate.

October 19, 2022
Mamadou Dia's "Demba" wins best festure film at the development stage Prix FNC.

September 30, 2022
Aynne Kokas in The Diplomat.

September 28, 2022
Aniko Bodroghkozy in Camera Obscura.

September 28, 2022
Aynne Kokas in South China Morning Post.
September 8, 2022
David Nemer in WorldCrunch.
September 6, 2022
Anna Katherine Clay in The New York Times.
August 30, 2022
Liz Ellcessor interviewed by Women's Health.

August 26, 2022
Lana Swartz and Parker Bach in the International Journal of Communication.

August 26, 2022
Aynne Kokas featured on the Democracy Paradox podcast.

August 12, 2022
Siva Vaidhyanathan quoted in Esquire.

August 11, 2022
Aniko Bodroghkozy in The Boston Globe and The Emancipator.

July 19, 2022
Lana Swartz in New Media & Society.

July 12, 2022
Aynne Kokas in CNN Business.
June 6, 2022
Aynne Kokas in Slate.

June 2, 2022
MDST Alum Danielle Collins speaks about finance.
June 1, 2022
Anna Katherine Clay in The New York Times.

May 26, 2022
Kevin Driscoll's new book reviewed in The New York Review of Books.

May 9, 2022
Thank you, Professor Wyatt Andrews, for your years of exceptional service to Media Studies!

May 2, 2022
Andre Cavalcante presented the all-university teaching award.

April 29, 2022
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.
April 26, 2022
Siva Vaidhyanathan in Slate.

April 11, 2022
Siva Vaidhyanathan interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition.

April 5, 2022
Christopher Ali in Broadband Breakfast.

March 22, 2022
Christopher Ali interviewed in The Progressive Magazine.

March 22, 2022
MDST Alum Graham Barbour takes first in Can Film Festival in UVA Today.

March 22, 2022
David Nemer in UVA Today.

March 4, 2022
Anna Katherine Clay in UVA Today.

March 2, 2022
Anna Katherine Clay in Bloomberg Businessweek.

February 24, 2022
David Nemer publishes Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil.

February 10, 2022
MDST Grad Student Harry Hudome publishes in Women's Studies in Communication

February 9, 2022
David Nemer quoted in The Financial Times.

February 7, 2022
Lori Morimoto quoted in The Japan Times.

February 7, 2022
David Nemer joins the first team of Washington Brazil Office Research Fellows.

February 7, 2022
MDST Alum Mia Venkat on National Public Radio.

February 4, 2022
Media Studies Grad Danielle Collins featured in UVA Today.

February 4, 2022
Chris Ali report cited in the Congressional Research Report.

January 21, 2022
Chris Ali appointed to the FCC's Digital Empowerment and Inclusion Working Group. Article here.

January 21, 2022
Elizabeth Ellcessor to become a Chief Editor at the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

January 12, 2022
David Nemer quoted in Financial Times.

January 6, 2022
David Nemer cited in AP News.

January 6, 2022
Anna Katherine Clay writes for The New York Times.

December 20, 2021
David Nemer quoted in The Washington Post.

December 10, 2021
Anna Katherine Clay in The New York Times.

November 22, 2021
David Nemer in NACLA Report on the Americas.

November 15, 2021
Chris Ali in Washington Monthly.

November 12, 2021
David Nemer quoted in The New York Times.

November 9, 2021
David Nemer joins Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center as a Faculty Associate.

November 8, 2021
Shilpa Dave recognized by the Office of Engagement.

November 8, 2021
Christopher Ali in allconnect.

November 4, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan in Slate.

October 27, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan on CNN.

October 27, 2021
Aynne Kokas on NewstalkZB.

October 22, 2021
David Nemer quoted in Vice.

October 21, 2021
Lori Morimoto interviewed in The Daily Fandom.

October 21, 2021
Miyoung Chong wins ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Social Media Award.

October 14, 2021
Lori Morimoto blogs on Confessions of an ACA-Fan.

October 13, 2021
Christopher Ali quoted in Politico.

October 12, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan quoted in The New York Times.

October 11, 2021
Aynne Kokas in Insider.

October 8, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan in UVA Today.

October 8, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

October 8, 2021
David Nemer quoted in The HuffPost.

October 4, 2021
Aynne Kokas interviewed on China Matters.

September 22, 2021
Aynne Kokas cited in Business Insider.

September 21, 2021
Chris Ali releases his latest book with MIT Press.

September 20, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

September 10, 2021
Aynne Kokas on National Public Radio.

September 3, 2021
Chris Ali interviewed in Roll Call.

August 30, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan's class inspires a student's play in UVA Today.

August 20, 2021
Aynne Kokas writes for the Wilson Center.

July 30, 2021
Kevin Driscoll (with Asher Caplan) on YouTube.

July 28, 2021
Aynne Kokas in The Wire.

July 21, 2021
David Nemer for the Social Science Research Council.

July 19, 2021
Christopher Ali writes for The LPE Project.
June 30, 2021
Aynne Kokas interviewed by Cheddar News.

June 30, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

June 28, 2021
Aynne Kokas named life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

June 28, 2021
Shilpa Dave on Rick Moore's Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call.

June 21, 2021
Christopher Ali and Abigail Simmerman in The Benton Institute for Broadband and Society's Digital Beat.

June 21, 2021
David Nemer quoted in Vice World News.

June 21, 2021
Shilpa Dave quoted in The Guardian.
June 9, 2021
Elizabeth Ellcessor in The Conversation.

June 3, 2021
Aynne Kokas on the Wilson Center's Need to Know podcast series.

June 2, 2021
Shilpa Dave on Public Radio's Here and Now.

May 21, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan in Slate.

May 6, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

April 28, 2021
Aniko Bodroghkozy in The Cavalier Daily.

April 9, 2021
Aynne Kokas in The Washington Post.

April 1, 2021
Anna Katherine Clay in The New York Times.

April 1, 2021
Christopher Ali in UVA Today.

March 25, 2021
Shilpa Dave in UVA Today.

March 25, 2021
Meredith Clark on The Takeaway.
March 17, 2021
Christopher Ali testifies before the US Senate Commerce Committee.

March 10, 2021
Christopher Ali in Columbia Journalism Review.

March 8, 2021
Aynne Kokas interviewed in The New York Times.

March 8, 2021
Christopher Ali speaks at the Repower REC Broadband Forum.

February 22, 2021
Aynne Kokas awarded a China Fellowship at the Wilson Center.

February 19, 2021
Matthew Marshall hosts Gary Springer of Jaws II fame.

February 19, 2021
Chris Ali in The Winchester Star.

February 19, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan interviewed in ABC's RN Breakfast.

February 18, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan on NPR.

February 17, 2021
Christopher Ali shares his expertise with Render Networks.

February 17, 2021
Lana Swartz in UVAToday.
February 16, 2021
Andrea Press and Francesca Tripodi release their new book.

February 9, 2021
Shilpa Davé and Camilla Fojas in The Cavalier Daily.

February 5, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan quoted in Times Higher Education.

February 5, 2021
Lana Swartz featured in WIRED.

February 5, 2021
David Nemer quoted in Newsweek.

February 4, 2021
Annie Parnell in We Are The Mutants.

February 4, 2021
Lana Swartz quoted in CNN Business.

February 2, 2021
David Nemer in Publica.

February 2, 2021
Aynne Kokas in The Washington Post.

February 1, 2021
David Nemer interviewed in the BBC News.

February 1, 2021
Christopher Ali interviewed about Canadian broadband for Yahoo Finance Canada.

February 1, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan interviewed for Time.

January 15, 2021
Siva Vaidhyanathan's class in UVA Today.

January 11, 2021
Aynne Kokas in South China Morning Post.

January 11, 2021
Jack Hamilton on NY PBR's On the Media.

January 8, 2021
Media Studies grad Claire-Marie Brisson talks about MDSTJ-term course, Democracy in Danger, in light of the assault on the US Capitol on Le Téléjournal.

January 5, 2021
Aynne Kokas on CSPAN.

January 5, 2021
Anna Katherine Clay in The New York Times.

December 17, 2020
Lana Swartz interviewed at UAL: London College of Communication.

December 16, 2020
Aynne Kokas interviewed in Tech Sequences: Technology and Consequences.

December 3, 2020
Christopher Ali quoted in FiveThirtyEight.

November 30, 2020
David Nemer interviewed in OZY.

November 23, 2020
David Nemer quoted in Tilt.

November 20, 2020
Congratulations to Aswin Punathambekar on his invitation to join the George Foster Peabody Awards board.

November 20, 2020
Aynne Kokas quoted in The Christian Science Monitor.

November 19, 2020
Meredith Clark quoted in The New York Times.

November 13, 2020
Christopher Ali in USC Annenberg's International Journal of Communication.

November 4, 2020
Aynne Kokas interviewed in US-China Horizons.

October 29, 2020
Anna Katherine Clay in Garden & Gun.

October 29, 2020
David Nemer in CyberNews.

October 23, 2020
Siva Vaidhyanathan interviewed on Marketplace.

October 19, 2020
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.

October 19, 2020
Christopher Ali in The Washington Post.

September 21, 2020
Siva Vaidhyanathan in A&S News.

September 16, 2020
Aynne Kokas in The New York Times.

September 11, 2020
Aynne Kokas on Bloomberg.

September 10, 2020
Chris Ali named Knight News Innovation Fellow.

September 10, 2020
David Nemer in The Intercept _ Brasil.

September 8, 2020
Aynne Kokas in Nikkei Asian Review.

September 8, 2020
Aswin Punathambekar's newest book comes out.

September 8, 2020
Aynne Kokas quoted in CNN Business.

September 1, 2020
Television and News Media features Aniko Bodroghkozy.

September 1, 2020
An interview with Christopher Ali.

August 31, 2020
Jack Hamilton in UVA Today.

August 28, 2020
Elizabeth Ellcessor joins the Miller Center.

August 24, 2020
An op-ed by Aynne Kokas.

August 21, 2020
Christopher Ali's op-ed in The Hill.

August 21, 2020
Siva Vaidhyanathan in Wired.

August 21, 2020
Aynne Kokas in Nikkei Asian Review.

August 21, 2020
Lana Swartz is interviewed in the Vergecast interview series.

August 21, 2020
Shilpa Dave in The Washington Post.

August 21, 2020
Aynne Kokas in S&P Global Market Intelligence.

August 17, 2020
Bloomberg TV interviews Aynne Kokas.

August 14, 2020
Jack Hamilton examines the classic song for Slate.

August 13, 2020
UVA Today interviews Aynne Kokas.

August 12, 2020
Democracy in Danger with co-host Siva Vaidhyanathan ... on Xenophobia in America.

August 11, 2020
Aynne Kokas writes for The Washington Post.

August 5, 2020
What is a tech expert? Siva Vaidhyanathan considers this question in Wired.

August 5, 2020
Chris Ali serves as an expert witness on broadband for the Reimagine New York State Blue Ribbon Commission.

August 4, 2020
David Nemer was a featured guest on CNN Brasil in their debate on hate speech and misinformation.

August 3, 2020
Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks about the past and future of the internet in the new podcast series Public Books.

August 3, 2020
Meredith Clark is interviewed in The New Yorker about the Black Lives Matter movement's use of social media.

August 3, 2020
Democracy in Danger podcast launched. With co-host Siva Vaidhyanathan. Podcast musical score by Jack Hamilton.

July 28, 2020
Aynne Kokas comments on China's reopening of its theaters.

July 28, 2020
Shilpa Dave is interviewed on With Good Reason about brown voices on radio and netflix.

July 28, 2020
Aniko Bodroghkozy looks at the legacy of John Lewis.

July 17, 2020
Chris Ali discusses school reopening and the digital divide.

July 14, 2020
Is America ready to reopen schools? Siva Vaidhyanathan responds to this question in The Guardian.

July 8, 2020
Variety interviews Aynne Kokas about the problems faced by theater chains operating in the U.S.

July 6, 2020
El Nacion interviews Siva Vaidhyanathan.

June 29, 2020
David Nemer criticizes the Brazilian government.

June 29, 2020
Aynne Kokas is interviewed on how Zoom courses could put Chinese students at risk.

May 19, 2020
Siva Vaidhyanathan on the social media giant.

May 11, 2020
Liz Ellcessor discusses disability cultures with Aimi Hamraie on Contra.

May 11, 2020
Making choices about your major, career, or graduate school plan is challenging.

May 11, 2020
Jack Hamilton pays homage to the great musician in Slate.
May 9, 2020
Watch Wyatt Andrews' Basic Multimedia Reporting class documentary "Spring Broken: College on COVID."

April 11, 2020
David Nemer discusses the resurrection of the Dancing Coffin Crew meme.

April 8, 2020
David Nemer asks, in Salon, "Is Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's right-wing president, the new Jim Jones?"
April 7, 2020
CBS 29 News speaks with Siva Vaidhyanathan.

April 7, 2020
Chris Ali discusses a new gap in education.

April 5, 2020

April 3, 2020
Andrea Press reflects on the series in Shondaland.

April 2, 2020
Aniko Bodroghkozy in The Conversation.

March 26, 2020
Read Siva Vaidhyanathan's op-ed in The Guardian.
March 23, 2020
Lana Swartz's work on Venmo,Twitter and the COVID-19 crisis is featured on BuiltIn.

March 19, 2020
Chris Ali talks with The Cavalier Daily.

February 28, 2020
Siva Vaidhyanathan is interviewed by Marketplace.Org.

February 25, 2020
Lana Swartz discusses the cashless economy and its impact with KUOW.

January 30, 2020
Shilpa Dave talks to UVAToday about Disney's cultural depictions.

January 20, 2020
As a Benton Fellow, Chris Ali is researching and writing on the need for a National Rural Broadband plan.

January 15, 2020
Shilpa Dave is interviewed by Vox.

December 18, 2019
Read Chris Ali's "Thoughts on Rural Broadband Subsidies for the New Decade" here.

December 11, 2019
History of Media with Kevin Driscoll.

December 1, 2019
The Atlantic shares Jack Hamilton's piece on the new Martin Scorses film and the history of American Gangster films.

November 25, 2019

November 22, 2019
Siva Vaidhyanathan expounds on Facebook's political involvement.

November 19, 2019
Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks with Canada's National Observer.

November 13, 2019
Shilpa Dave speaks with the Washington Post.

November 12, 2019
Bloomberg quotes Chris Ali on the battle between municipalities and big media.

November 2, 2019
Prof. Vaidhyanathan pens an opinion piece for the New York Times on Facebook's reasons for not fact checking political ads.

November 1, 2019
The Sun Sentinel speaks with Meredith Clark on #BlackTwitter.

October 29, 2019
Siva Vaidhyanathan pens this piece for Wired on Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckberg's recent congressional testimony.

October 19, 2019
Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks with Vox on Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) tech legislation and the bias of social media platforms.

October 18, 2019
In his latest op-ed piece for the Guardian, Siva Vaidhyanathan expounds on Zuckerberg's recent talk at Georgetown University as what can only be described as 'a manifesto that can only be

October 16, 2019
Congratulations to Chris Ali, who was elected Vice Chair of the Communication Law and Policy Division of the International Communication Association.

October 14, 2019
Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks with Clarín on the recent Trump video and the ramifications of extreme videos and the political fallout they have.

October 9, 2019
UVA Today speaks with Elizabeth Ellcessor on her course Disability and Media, and her research on disability representation, access technologies, and disabled people as media audiences and

October 6, 2019
Elizabeth Ellcessor weighs in with the Washington Post in their article covering YouTube creators with disabilities using the site to share their experiences and educate others.

October 4, 2019
Slate has published an article by Siva Vaidhyanathan marking the U.S. Attorney General's request for Facebook to scrap the launch of their new encryption for messaging services.

October 1, 2019
Jack Hamilton speaks with Studio 360 on the 50th anniversary of the Jackson 5's debut single "I Want You Back".

September 20, 2019
Congratulations to Andrea Press, who won the UVA Public Voices Fellowship to facilitate the public communication of findings from her forthcoming book, US Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexi

September 16, 2019

September 11, 2019
Chris Ali's class in the Cavalier Daily.

September 11, 2019
The American Society of News Editors’ 41st annual Newsroom Diversity Survey, conducted by Meredith Clark, finds American news

September 10, 2019
UVA Today speaks with UVA alumnus Umair Javid, legal advisor to Commissioner Rosenworcel, on how UVA prepared him for his job.

August 29, 2019
Shilpa Dave speaks with The Takeaway podcast about South Asian actors being cast in leading roles.

June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019
UVA Today speaks with media studies third years Ali Sullivan & Norah Mulinda about their internship experience with Charlottesville Tomorrow.

April 11, 2019
David Nemer speaks with UOL Notícias (Brazil's top online news outlet) on how fake news will factor into the 2020 municipal elections.
April 10, 2019
The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices has recognized David Nemer with an honorable mention for his paper If it Rains, Ask Grandma to Disconnect the Nano.

January 23, 2019
David Nemer wrote a column for Brazil's El País about WhatsApp and Instagram and their roles as platforms for misinformation during the 2020 elections.

Aynne Kokas in the South China Morning Post.