Disney Plus adds content warning to animated movies criticized as racist
Shilpa Dave speaks with the Washington Post.
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.
Goodbye to the Goodfellas
The Atlantic shares Jack Hamilton's piece on the new Martin Scorses film and the history of American Gangster films.
Joker stairs tourists say locals were ‘cheerful and warm’ despite complaints
Popeyes chicken sandwich is back, and let’s remember to thank Black Twitter for the culture
The Sun Sentinel speaks with Meredith Clark on #BlackTwitter.
Silicon Valley should take Josh Hawley’s big war on big tech seriously
Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks with Vox on Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) tech legislation and the bias of social media platforms.
Everyone will use fake news in 2020 municipal elections
David Nemer speaks with UOL Notícias (Brazil's top online news outlet) on how fake news will factor into the 2020 municipal elections.
If it Rains, Ask Grandma to Disconnect the Nano: Maintenance & Care in Havana’s StreetNet
The Journal of Collaborative Computing and Work Practices has recognized David Nemer with an honorable mention for his paper If it Rains, Ask Grandma to Disconnect the Nano.
The Real Reason Facebook Won’t Fact-Check Political Ads
Prof. Vaidhyanathan pens an opinion piece for the New York Times on Facebook's reasons for not fact checking political ads.
Mark Zuckerberg needs to shut up
Siva Vaidhyanathan pens this piece for Wired on Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckberg's recent congressional testimony.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand free speech in the 21st century
In his latest op-ed piece for the Guardian, Siva Vaidhyanathan expounds on Zuckerberg's recent talk at Georgetown University as what can only be described as 'a manifesto that can only be called incoherent'.
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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.