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.
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Theorizing the 2017 blockchain ICO bubble as a network scam
Lana Swartz in New Media & Society.
Dr. Aynne Kokas on Trafficking Data
Aynne Kokas book talk (via zoom) at the Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture.
Hollywood won't budge for Chinese censors anymore. Here's what changed
Aynne Kokas in CNN Business.
The weaponization of shame
Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks to KCRW.
Hollywood’s cultural revolution
Aynne Kokas cited in Tortoise.
Review of David Nemer’s Technology of the Oppressed
David Nemer's book reviewed in NACLA Report on the Americas.
The New Top Gun Is a Perfect Metaphor for How Hollywood Bends to China
Aynne Kokas in Slate.
Pages
May 25, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.
May 10, 2023
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Guardian.
