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.
The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
Kevin Driscoll's new book reviewed in The New York Review of Books.
Professor Wyatt Andrews to Retire
Thank you, Professor Wyatt Andrews, for your years of exceptional service to Media Studies!
Congratulations Andre Cavalcante!
Andre Cavalcante presented the all-university teaching award.
Elon Musk doesn’t understand free speech – or Twitter – at all
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.
There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter
Siva Vaidhyanathan in Slate.
In praise of the dollar bill
Lana Swartz in MIT Technology Review.
Elon Musk takes a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder
Siva Vaidhyanathan interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition.
Telegram’s Embrace of Contradiction
David Nemer writes for Lawfare.
How the U.S. Department of Agriculture is Quietly Reshaping Broadband Policy
Christopher Ali in Broadband Breakfast.
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March 16, 2023
Aynne Kokas interviewed on AirTalk.
March 6, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.