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.
Shilpa Dave speaks with the Washington Post.
The Atlantic shares Jack Hamilton's piece on the new Martin Scorses film and the history of American Gangster films.
The Sun Sentinel speaks with Meredith Clark on #BlackTwitter.
Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks with Vox on Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) tech legislation and the bias of social media platforms.
David Nemer speaks with UOL Notícias (Brazil's top online news outlet) on how fake news will factor into the 2020 municipal elections.
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.
Prof. Vaidhyanathan pens an opinion piece for the New York Times on Facebook's reasons for not fact checking political ads.
Siva Vaidhyanathan pens this piece for Wired on Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckberg's recent congressional testimony.
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'.
Thank you, Professor Wyatt Andrews, for your years of exceptional service to Media Studies!
Andre Cavalcante presented the all-university teaching award.
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.