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.
America is not prepared for schools opening this fall. This will be bad.
Is America ready to reopen schools? Siva Vaidhyanathan responds to this question in The Guardian.
Will Coronavirus Create a Debt Crisis for Movie Theaters?
Variety interviews Aynne Kokas about the problems faced by theater chains operating in the U.S.
Encrucijada: Facebook enfrenta su mayor desafío para no perder peso político
El Nacion interviews Siva Vaidhyanathan.
'Bolsonaro does not control more radical supporters', says researcher
David Nemer criticizes the Brazilian government.
Academics fear using Zoom to study China—even in the US
Aynne Kokas is interviewed on how Zoom courses could put Chinese students at risk.
Liz Ellcessor on Disability Cultures
Liz Ellcessor discusses disability cultures with Aimi Hamraie on Contra.
Spring Broken: College on COVID
Watch Wyatt Andrews' Basic Multimedia Reporting class documentary "Spring Broken: College on COVID."
Facebook and the Folly of Self-Regulation
Siva Vaidhyanathan on the social media giant.
Brazilian Necropolitics: Not even the coffin men will be left to dance
David Nemer discusses the resurrection of the Dancing Coffin Crew meme.
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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.