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.
Media Studies Grad Speaker Series
The True Costs of Corporate Boycotts
Siva Vaidhynathan on NPR's On the Media.
New Money
Book Talk: New Money: How Payment Became Social Media by Lana Swartz
Lana Swartz will discuss her new book. Presented by the USC Dornsife Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and the Berggruen Institute Fellows Program.
The year QAnon went global
David Nemer quoted in Coda.
Phil Spector Transformed Pop Music and Destroyed Lives
Jack Hamilton in Slate.
The soft war that America is losing
Aynne Kokas in Financial Review here.
Last Day for Graduate Students to Apply for Spring 2021 Graduation
J-Term Course on Democracy Attracts More than 300 Students - and President Ryan
Siva Vaidhyanathan's class in UVA Today.
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April 22, 2024
Anna Katherine Clay on National Public Radio's Radio IQ.
April 19, 2024
David Nemer in the Associated Press.
Conjoined twins Abby, Brittany Hensel back in spotlight after wedding speculation. It's gone too far
April 8, 2024
Elizabeth Ellcessor in USA Today.