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.
There’s No Such Thing As a Tech Expert Anymore
What is a tech expert? Siva Vaidhyanathan considers this question in Wired.
David Nemer on CNN Brasil
David Nemer was a featured guest on CNN Brasil in their debate on hate speech and misinformation.
Democracy in Danger: Episode 1 -- Illiberal Media
Democracy in Danger podcast launched. With co-host Siva Vaidhyanathan. Podcast musical score by Jack Hamilton.
Societies Online
Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks about the past and future of the internet in the new podcast series Public Books.
The Second Act of Social-Media Activism
Meredith Clark is interviewed in The New Yorker about the Black Lives Matter movement's use of social media.
Brown Voice
Shilpa Dave is interviewed on With Good Reason about brown voices on radio and netflix.
How the images of John Lewis being beaten during ‘Bloody Sunday’ went viral
Aniko Bodroghkozy looks at the legacy of John Lewis.
Hollywood gets a little boost from China … but it might come at a price
Aynne Kokas comments on China's reopening of its theaters.
'The cruelest part of the digital divide' | How millions in federal funding fails our students
Chris Ali discusses school reopening and the digital divide.
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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.