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Chair's Message

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC) is committed to the proposition that society is a form of communication. Our core pursuit is advancement of research, scholarship, and teaching in the various ways that people make, disseminate and share meaningful symbols as individuals and social groups. To us, communication is the foundational practice of human experience and culture is the shared, lived realities of particular groups. We investigate the ways in which the technologies of communication record, transmit and shape what we know and do.

The department provides a rich diversity of undergraduate and graduate courses. Our academic terrain is interdisciplinary, equally informed by the humanities and social sciences. Students and scholars of culture and communication must appreciate and explore communicative and cultural practices that extend beyond their own place and time.

Instruction ranges from theoretical and historical accounts of communication systems in general to specific case studies of particular forms, methods, and modes of communication. Our courses confront the issues and challenges that changing technology, media forms, institutions, and social and cultural habits present to us in a global and connected age.

Working with the professional communities in New York City and elsewhere, we seek to build our students' professional competencies and support their desire to pursue careers in communication and media. We also produce original and innovative scholarly research of the highest caliber and seek the broadest possible dissemination of our work, reaching the widest possible array of publics.

—Ted Magder, Chair

Council for Media and Culture
We are an affiliate department of NYU's
Council for Media and Culture. 		 

News & Events

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MAY 19, 2008
Aram Sinnerich discusses Blu-Ray Technology on Public Radio's FutureTense

Aram Sinnerich, Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Media, recently appeared on Public Radio's FutureTense to discuss how Blu-Ray Discs are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios.

Listen to the episode by clicking on the play button below



MAY 14, 2008
McIlwain to Study Effects of Racial Appeals

Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) recently accepted a proposal by Charlton McIlwain to conduct a study testing the effects of racial appeals on African American Voters. Results from the study will be included in McIlwain's forthcoming book, tentatively titled, Race Appeal.

MAY 9, 2008
Yiamsamatha Publishes in Journal of Global Affairs

MCC student Nina Yiamsamatha published a paper written for the Mass Persuasion & Propaganda course taught by Professor Mark Miller. The paper will appear in the NYU Journal of Global Affairs.

MAY 9, 2008
Shimmin Awarded Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Grant

Jessie Shimmin was awarded the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Grant for her project "Safe Space: Gender and Place Making in a Shelter for Battered Women."

APR 29, 2008
Zimmer joins University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Michael Zimmer, a recent graduate of our PhD program, has accepted an Assistant Professorship in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He will teach the undergraduate in Information Resources curriculum and be an affiliate of the Center for Information Policy Research.