Media Studies Program |
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The Media Studies Program began in Fall 2000 as an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in the College of Arts and Sciences. The program is historical and critical in orientation and takes media as its object of study. The program focuses on the forms, institutions, and effects of media (radio, film, television, photography, print, digital and electronic media), with particular emphasis on the mass media of the modern and contemporary period.
Media Studies examines: Aesthetics and form of media communication; individual perception and concepts of audience from psychological, cognitive science, and psychoanalytic perspectives; the history of media (primarily mass-circulation print, journals, and newspapers, recorded media, telephone, radio communications and broadcast media, and electronic modes);
ethics and effects of media in the arena of policy studies; issues of race and identity in media industries; the social impact of media on public opinion and mass culture; the relations between media and the law free speech issues,
the commerce and regulation of media in the public sphere.
Media Studies is critically engaged with the creative analysis, production, and research into traditional and emerging forms of media. The program has a significant emphasis on digital media through approaches to its history, theory, and technology and their impact upon contemporary life.
Contact: PO Box 400866 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4866 Phone: (434) 243-8855 Fax: (434) 243-8869 Website: http://www.virginia.edu/mediastudies/ |
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Projects By Media Studies Program: ABsOnline: From Prototype to Networked Community Artists Books Online Artists' Books Online: From Prototype to Distributed Community Digital Humanities Curriculum Development Seminar History of the Book Interpretive Tools for Online Humanities IPA for the Distinguished Achievement Award The Rossetti Archive The Rossetti Archive Amaya, Hector – Assistant Professor Bodroghkozy, Aniko – Associate Professor Golumbia, David A – Assistant Professor Kolker, Robert Phillip – Lecturer in Media Studies Little, William Ganse – Lecturer Petersen, Jennifer Anne – Assistant Professor Reifenberger, William J – Lecturer in Media Studies Shlossberg, Paul – Lecturer Vaidhyanathan, Siva – Associate Professor Wagner, Paul R – Lecturer in Media Studies Related News: |
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