The Nationalism of Facebook
Siva Vaidhyanathan in Slate.
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.
A New Name Won't Fix Facebook
MDST Alumnus Nik Popli in Time.
Bolsonaro Is Taking From Trump's Playbook as Brazil's Election Draws Closer
David Nemer quoted in Vice.
Winners of 2021 ASIS&T SIG SM Awards Announced
Miyoung Chong wins ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Social Media Award.
Interview with Paul Booth, Lori Morimoto, and Lesley Willard
Lori Morimoto interviewed in The Daily Fandom.
Global Fandom: Lori Morimoto (American/Adult Third Culture Kid)
Lori Morimoto blogs on Confessions of an ACA-Fan.
Webinar: Ethical (Dis)Continuities
What can data ethics education learn from the history of teaching engineering and computer ethics? Or, perhaps more importantly, what should it learn? In this talk, Anna Lauren Hoffmann discusses some major themes in research and writing on engineering and computer ethics education and connects them to emerging discussions of how we ought to teach ethics in the context of data science education.
Biden's inaction is poised to hand GOP the majority on this key agency
Christopher Ali quoted in Politico.
What blockbuster? China spurns Hollywood's advances
Aynne Kokas in Nikkei Asia.
The Big Idea: Both parties want to regulate Facebook. But how?
Siva Vaidhyanathan quoted in The New York Times.
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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.