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
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  • Modern propaganda
  • History and tactics of advertising
  • American film
  • Media ownership
Rodney Benson | Director, Graduate Studies
Mara Mills
  • 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
Deborah J. Borisoff
 Nicholas Mirzoeff
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  • Gender and communication
  • Conflict management
  • Organizational communication
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  •  Visual culture
  • Decolonial genealogy of "visuality"
Lily Hope Chumley
Terence Moran
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  • Semiotics and linguistic anthropology
  • Postsocialist histories
  • Aesthetics of capitalism
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  • History of communication, technology
  • Propaganda analysis
Stephen Duncombe
Susan Murray
  • Media and cultural studies
  • Mass and alternative media
  • Spectacle
  • Social and Industrial histories of the media
  • Visual Culture
Allen Feldman
Helen Nissenbaum
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  • Visual culture and violence
  • Political anthropology of the body
  • Archeology and genealogy of media and technology
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  • Information technology and new media
  • Social, ethical, and political dimensions
JoEllen Fisherkeller
Juan Pinon
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  • Kids, teens, and media
  • Media and education
  • Youth media
  • Audiences and new media users
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  • U.S. Latino and Latin American media
  • Political and cultural economy
  • Immigration and appropriation of new technologies
Alexander Galloway
Laura Portwood-Stacer
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  • Critical theory, semiotics, aesthetics
  • Digital media, networks, software
  • New media art, video games, film
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  • Gender and sexuality
  • Consumer culture
  • Political identity
  • Social media
Brett Gary
Arvind Rajagopal
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  • Media and liberalism
  • Mass media and modern democracy
  • Propaganda
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  • Contemporary South Asia
  • Social theory
  • Audience theory
  • Globalization
 
Lisa Gitelman
Ron Robin
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  • American media history
  • Print culture studies
  • History of technology
  • History of communication and media studies
  • Political communication
  • Visual culture
Radha Hegde
Erica Robles-Anderson
  • Mediated practices and migrants
  • Globalization
  • Transnational feminism
  • Visual and material culture
  • Media, culture, and space
  • Architecture and interaction design
  • Screens and displays
Ben Kafka
Martin Scherzinger
  • Paperwork, bureaucracy
  • Psychoanalysis, grammatology
  • Intellectual and cultural history
    of Europe
  • Sonic culture
  • Music
  • Media and politics
Liel Leibovitz
Marita Sturken | Chair
  • Video games
  • Nascent technologies
  • Digital media
  • Human-machine interaction
  • Cultural memory
  • Visual culture
  • Consumerism
  • Popular culture
Ted Magder
Helga Tawil-Souri
  • Communication policy and law
  • Contemporary media culture
  • Globalization
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  • Contemporary Middle East and Palestinian politics and media
  • Capitalism
  • Globalization
Charlton McIlwain
Aurora Wallace | Director, Undergraduate Studies
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  • Race and political communication
  • Crime and media
  • History of American newspapers
  • Advertising and urban space

 

Affiliated Faculty

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