New Money explains how payment became a form of social media
Lana Swartz is interviewed in the Vergecast interview series.
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.
Closing the digital divide requires a coalition on reform of the Universal Service Fund
Christopher Ali's op-ed in The Hill.
TikTok Would Be Significant Liability for Microsoft, Says Media Expert
Bloomberg TV interviews Aynne Kokas.
The Troublesome Case of “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
Jack Hamilton examines the classic song for Slate.
Q&A: TikTok Ban Underscores the Need for Better Data Legislation, Home and Abroad
UVA Today interviews Aynne Kokas.
Xenophobia
Democracy in Danger with co-host Siva Vaidhyanathan ... on Xenophobia in America.
China already has your data. Trump’s TikTok and WeChat bans can’t stop that.
Aynne Kokas writes for The Washington Post.
Hollywood panned in US for caving to Chinese censors
Aynne Kokas comments on PEN America call for Hollywood to resist self- censorship.
Broadband Policy, Deployment, and Access: Lessons for New York State
Chris Ali serves as an expert witness on broadband for the Reimagine New York State Blue Ribbon Commission.
TikTok Could Have Been China’s Nintendo
Aynne Kokas comments in Slate.
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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.