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- Benson to serve as Keynote at University of Oslo "Migration in the Mass Media" Conference
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On November 17, at the Yale Sociology Department's Comparative Research Workshop, Rodney Benson, Director of Graduate Studies for the NYU Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, gave an invited talk entitled, "Does field theory help explain omnibus media cultural production? A comparison of French and U.S. television news framing of immigration."
Benson also recently participated in the French-American Foundation’s conference on “Covering Immigration,” held in Paris from Nov. 13-15, and on December 3, he will be a keynote speaker at the University of Oslo’s international conference on on "Migration in the mass media."
Professor Benson's just published work this fall includes "Shaping the Public Sphere: Habermas and Beyond," an article in a special issue of The American Sociologist devoted to the sociology of media and communications, with contributions also from Elihu Katz (University of Pennsylvania) and Ronald Jacobs (SUNY-Albany); and "What Makes News More Multiperspectival? A Field Analysis," an article in the journal Poetics.
- Coleman on the Free Culture Movement
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Biella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt, comments on the Free Culture Movement (the remixing and redistribution of creative works) in Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society podcast. Professor Coleman studies technologists, in particular Hacker Culture, and has published in numerous Anthropology journals articles on free and open source software.
To view the full article, please visit: "Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers." Cultural Anthropology. 24(3): 420-454.
- Marwick on Facebook and Privacy
- Media, Culture, and Communication PhD candidate Alice Marwick's editorial on Facebook and privacy is published in the Guardian.
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- Faculty Search | Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track Media Advocacy
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We are seeking a scholar who researches the use of media and technology in social advocacy campaigns for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 1, 2010. Qualified candidates should have a PhD with research specialization in one or more of the following fields: public health, disability studies, and human rights. Preferred candidates will have a demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary scholarship and current philosophical and theoretical debates in relevant fields.
Responsibilities will include: an active agenda of research and publication; undergraduate and graduate teaching and advising; and department and university service.
Applicants should send a cover letter discussing qualifications, a curriculum vitae, copies of publications, and three letters of reference, and samples of work to:
Search Committee Chair
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
New York University
239 Greene St, 7th floor
New York NY 10012Deadline for applications: November 17, 2009 or until the position is filled.