Department of Media, Culture, and Communication

Faculty - Media, Culture, and Communication

Arjun Appadurai
Mark Crispin Miller
  • Global media, consumption, and migration
  • Poverty, violence, and social inclusion
  • Race, Media & Politics
  • Race & Digital Media
  • Political Communication
Rodney Benson 
Mara Mills
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  • Public spheres, fields, networks
  • Sociology of culture
  • Comparative news media systems
  • Immigration and public discourse
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  • Science and technology studies
  • History and politics of digital media
  • Telephone and mobile communication studies
  • Disability studies
Jamie Skye Bianco
Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • Digital media

 

 

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  • Visual culture
  • Decolonial genealogy of "visuality"
Deborah J. Borisoff
Terence Moran
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  • Gender and communication
  • Conflict management
  • Organizational communication

 

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  • History of communication, technology
  • Propaganda analysis
Finn Brunton
Susan Murray
  • The relationships between society, culture, and information technology 
  • The adoption, adaptation, modification and misuse of digital media and hardware
  • Privacy and information security
  • Social and Industrial histories of the media
  • Visual culture
Paula Chakravartty
Helen Nissenbaum
  • Comparative Political Economy
  • Global Governance and Social Justice
  • Media and Empire
  • Information technology and 
    new media
  • Social, ethical, and political 
    dimensions
Lily Hope Chumley
Juan Pinon
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  • Semiotics and linguistic anthropology
  • Postsocialist histories
  • Aesthetics of capitalism
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  • U.S. Latino and Latin American media
  • Political and cultural economy
  • Immigration and appropriation of new technologies
Stephen Duncombe
Laura Portwood-Stacer
  • Media and cultural studies
  • Mass and alternative media
  • Spectacle
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  • Gender and sexuality
  • Consumer culture
  • Political identity
  • Social media
Allen Feldman
Arvind Rajagopal
  • Visual culture and violence
  • Political anthropology of the body
  • Archeology and genealogy of media and technology
  • History of media
  • Critical theory
  • Public Sphere Formation
  • South Asia
  • Religion and Media
JoEllen Fisherkeller
Ron Robin
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  • Kids, teens, and media
  • Media and education
  • Youth media
  • Audiences and new media users
  • History of communication and media studies
  • Political communication
  • Visual culture
Alexander Galloway
Erica Robles-Anderson
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  •  Critical theory, semiotics, aesthetics
  • Digital media, networks, software
  • New media art, video games, film
  • Visual and material culture
  • Media, culture, and space
  • Architecture and interaction design
  • Screens and displays
Brett Gary
Martin Scherzinger | Director, Graduate Studies
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  •  Media and liberalism
  • Mass media and modern democracy
  • Propaganda
  • Sonic culture
  • Music
  • Media and politics
Lisa Gitelman
Nicole Starosielski
  •  American media history
  • Print culture studies
  • History of technology
  • Digital media
  • Communication technologies
  • Networks and infrastructure
Radha Hegde
Marita Sturken | Chair
  • Mediated practices and migrants
  • Globalization
  • Transnational feminism
  • Cultural memory
  • Visual culture
  • Consumerism
  • Popular culture
Ben Kafka
Helga Tawil-Souri
  • Paperwork, bureaucracy
  • Psychoanalysis, grammatology
  • Intellectual and cultural history 
    of Europe
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  • Contemporary Middle East and Palestinian politics and media
  • Capitalism
  • Globalization
Melanie E.S. Kohnen
Shawn VanCour
  • Sexuality, gender, and race
    in American culture
  • Television Studies
  • Social Media, Remix Cultures,
    and Transformative Works
  • Digital Humanities
  • Media industries and aesthetics
  • History and theory of emerging media
  • Sound media and audio culture
  • Film and television studies
Ted Magder
Aurora Wallace | Director, Undergraduate Studies
  • Communication policy and law
  • Contemporary media culture
  • Globalization
  • Crime and media
  • History of American newspapers
  • Advertising and urban space
Charlton McIlwain
 
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  • Race and political communication
   

Affiliated Faculty

Danah Boyd
Anna McCarthy
  • Social media and social network sites
  • Youth culture practices
  • Digital media and identity
  • Visual culture
  • Media and space
Craig Calhoun
Dana Polan
  • Social, political, cultural theory
  • comparative historical sociology
  • collective action, social movements
  • Cinema studies
  • Politics of film
  • History and narrative
Faye Ginsburg
Ella Shohat
  • Culture, media, and anthropology
  • Ethnographic documentary
  • Indigenous and alternative media
  • Ethnography of media
  • Postcolonial studies
  • Transnational Middle Eastern film/media
  • Visual culture
Eric Klinenberg
   
  • Urban studies
  • Media and cultural production
  • Risk and disaster
  • Race