Black Girl Autopoetics: Agency in Everyday Digital Practice
Ashleigh Wade in conversation with Janice Johnson Dias.
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.
February 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us
Ashleigh Wade in Ms. magazine.
Black History Month Silent Film Series
Body and Soul (1925) 80 mins. directed by Oscar Micheaux and starring Paul Robeson. It tells the story of an escaped convict (Robeson) pretending to be a Pastor. He tries to take advantage of a mother and her daughter. This film was Micheaux criticism of blind faith in clergy.
Professor Matt Marshall on piano. He'll be joined by a saxophonist on this one.
Through the Lens with Ashleigh Wade
All alumni, friends, and families are invited to join us for Through the Lens, a new virtual faculty lecture series brought to you by the UVA Clubs Global Network. The series kicks off in February with Ashleigh Wade, Assistant Professor of Digital Studies, in the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Co-opting AI: Campaigning
What are the roles data-driven systems and AI play in political campaigning and the democratic process at large—particularly with the advent of generative AI and in the context of the 2024 U.S. presidential election?
This is a completely virtual event. It is part of the ongoing series “Co-Opting AI” and is co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, Sloane Lab, and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia
From Politics to Twitch: A Grad Student’s Journey to Digital Humanities
Jed Baul featured in the UVA Data Science blog.
This Student Fashion Organization Will Leave You ‘CRAVE-ing’ More
MDST Major Ryan Lynch in UVA Today.
Winning ‘Big’: UVA Grad Gets Caldecott Medal
MDST Alum Vashti Harrison wins Caldecott Medal.
From Grammys to Super Bowl, with Tokyo in between: Inside the whirlwind week of peak Taylor Swift
Shilpa Dave in ABC News.
The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film
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April 22, 2024
Anna Katherine Clay on National Public Radio's Radio IQ.
April 19, 2024
David Nemer in the Associated Press.
Conjoined twins Abby, Brittany Hensel back in spotlight after wedding speculation. It's gone too far
April 8, 2024
Elizabeth Ellcessor in USA Today.