Department of Media, Culture, and Communication

Media, Culture, and Communication

News

  • Q&A with Visual Culture Conference Organizer Nicholas Mirzoeff
  • The three-day biennial conference of the International Association for Visual Culture (IAVC) kicks off on Thursday, May 31st at New York University. Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Nicholas Mirzoeff is Deputy Director of the IAVC, and ... More
  • Anti-consumption As Political Resistance
  • The latest issue of Journal of Consumer Culture features an article by MCC Visiting Assistant Professor Laura Portwood-Stacer on the intersection of identity and consumption within radical movements. Her research explores the ways in which the ... More
  • Haley Mellin Wins Outstanding Teaching Award
  • Mellin, who successfully defended her PhD this year, is recognized for her consummate teaching in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication. As a doctoral candidate, she worked with Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff, writing a thesis on ... More
  • NYU Steinhardt Salutes Gerald LeBoff, 91, Doctoral Recipient
  • Passion and idealism are the fabric of university life.  At NYU Steinhardt, we salute those who never stop learning despite life’s obstacles. Gerald LeBoff (BS ’42) graduated from NYU with a degree in accounting, served in the U.S. Army, raised … More
  • MCC Student Winners: In Their Own Words
  • Media, Culture, and Communication announces its undergraduate and master's departmental award winners. We chose the Proust Questionnaire as our vehicle for featuring this superbly talented group. DIANA ... More
  • Journal Gives Rave Review to Faculty Book
  • A review in the flagship journal Political Communication praised Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns for offering "the most comprehensive account to date of the racialized communications environment ... More
  • Rethinking Capitalism: Cultures of Finance Working Group Hosts Conference, Releases Publication
  • MCC's Arjun Appadurai cofounded the Cultures of Finance working group at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge in 2010, establishing a collective of social scientists and humanists interested in examining the broader cultural and ethical ... More
  • MCC Graduate Student Selected for Disability Arts Residency & Summer School
  • The Council for the Study of Disability, the GSAS Dean's Office, and the Steinhardt Professional Development Fund have awarded grants to three NYU graduate students to attend a disability arts residency and summer school at UC Irvine in June ... More
  • An Architect of the Arab Spring Visits MCC
  • Before Srdja Popovic turned 30, he helped mastermind the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic, using street theater and pranks to sweep tens of thousands of Serbs and end the dictator’s rule. Then, following a short and unhappy career in ... More
  • MCC’s Aaron Cohen Takes Us “Inside the Internet Garage”
  • NYU Steinhardt’s new interview series, “Inside the Internet Garage,” launches April 24 and features personal reflections on the first 20 years of internet history from some of the internet’s leading personalities. Adjunct professor and INC@NYU founder, Aaron Cohen, talks more … More
  • Student Receives Lemelson Fellowship to Research History of Telecommunications
  • MCC doctoral candidate Matthew Hockenberry has been awarded a fellowship from the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Through the Fellows Program, ... More
  • Mining Big Data: MCC Doctoral Candidate Explains
  • With the abundance of information made readily available, industries are eager to analyze (or mine) this influx of data for insight. References to Big Data abound in the media, but explanations are less prevalent. Digital Humanities ... More
  • New Piece by Nissenbaum on Data, Privacy, and Contemporary Urbanism
  • This month the Architectural League of New York released the ninth and final publication in its Situated Technologies pamphlet series, Modulated Cities: Networked Spaces, Reconstituted Subjects. This latest piece was written by MCC Professor ... More
  • MCC’s Liel Leibovitz Talks Seriously About Video Games
  • On Tuesday, April 17, Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication will host “Re: Play 2012,” a one-day conference dedicated to the ever-evolving medium of video games and electronic play. Liel Leibovitz, Steinhardt professor, video game scholar, and conference director discusses … More
  • Associate Professor Brett Gary Receives Woodward and Bernstein Fellowship
  • The Department congratulates Associate Professor Brett Gary, who has been awarded a Woodward and Bernstein Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin for the Fall 2012 semester. Professor Gary will use the ... More
  • MCC Hosts Conference on Electronic Play
  • “Re: Play 2012,” a one-day conference dedicated to the ever-evolving medium of video games and electronic play, will be hosted by MCC on Tuesday, April 17 at the King Juan Carlos Center located at 53 Washington Square South at 9:45 ... More
  • Inviting Applications for Visiting Assistant Professor
  • The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor whose research focuses on media, technology, and cultural studies. The position is to begin September 1, 2012. This is a one-year non-tenure ... More
  • Helen Nissenbaum, Philosopher of Digital Technology, Profiled in The Atlantic
  • Helen Nissenbaum, a professor in Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, is the subject of an Atlantic profile, The Philosopher Whose Fingers Are All Over The FTC’s New Approach to Privacy. Nissenbaum, who studies the ethical dimensions of technology, … More
  • Assistant Professor Mara Mills receives the 2012 Outstanding Faculty Award
  • We are pleased to announce that Steinhardt's Undergraduate Student Government has selected Assistant Professor Mara Mills as the 2012 recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award within the department of Media, Culture, and ... More
  • Associate Professor Ted Magder Wins NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award
  • Ted Magder, an associate professor of media, culture, and communication, has been selected to receive NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award.  The award is given annually to faculty members who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life at NYU through their teaching. … More
  • The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC's New Approach to Privacy
  • Professor Helen Nissenbaum was recently featured in the Atlantic. Journalist and senior editor Alexis Madrigal writes that "the brilliant New York University philosopher Helen Nissenbaum has put her approach to privacy at the center of the national ... More
  • Associate Professor Ted Magder Wins NYU Distinguished Teaching Award
  • NYU Steinhardt's Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, Ted Magder, is a recipient of this year's NYU Distinguished Teaching Award. The award highlights NYU's commitment to teaching excellence and is given annually to ... More
  • MCC PhD Student on the Intersection of Art & Technology
  • Jacob Gaboury, staff writer at Rhizome and MCC doctoral candidate, took the stage at the Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair on March 10th to discuss the future of video and new media art. Gaboury was part of a panel that included Steven Sacks, ... More
  • Student Named Scholar by Game Developers Association
  • PhD candidate Kyle Rentschler has been named a 2012 International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Scholar. The award grants him behind-the-scenes access to next week's Game Developers Conference, a five-day event in San Francisco for game ... More
  • Helen Nissenbaum Shapes Administration's Thinking on Privacy
  • In a sign the Obama Administration was taking consumer privacy seriously, the White House unveiled a blue print yesterday for a "Privacy Bill of Rights" to protect individuals in a networked environment. The document title, "We Can't Wait," reflects ... More
  • MCC Assistant Professor Receives Fellowship from ACLS
  • The Department congratulates Assistant Professor Ben Kafka, who has been awarded a Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2012/13 academic year. This prestigious fellowship supports assistant ... More
  • Inside Books: Joellen Fisherkeller on Youth Media Projects Around the World
  • Youth
media projects and visual culture is the subject of International Perspectives on Youth Media: Cultures of Production and Education (Peter
Lang).  Edited by Joellen Fisherkeller, an associate professor in Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, the book documents and analyzes … More
  • Steinhardt Seeks Nominations for Annual Teaching Excellence Award
  • The Teaching Excellence Award Committee of the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development invites nominations for the Teaching Excellence Award 2011-2012.  DESCRIPTION OF AWARD The Teaching Excellence Award gives us an opportunity to recognize outstanding teachers who … More
  • Role for Literature in the Social Network
  • Beginning February 13th, Social Media Week returns to NYC, and with it a whirlwind of activity that includes hundreds of lectures, forums, and networking events. NYU will host its own #smynyc panel on February 14th. The event, Literature Unbound: ... More
  • Three at MCC Named Humanities Fellows
  • The Department is pleased to announce that three at MCC have won fellowships from the Humanities Initiative for the next academic year. The fellows were selected from university-wide pools of highly competitive faculty and doctoral applications, and ... More
  • Steinhardt in the News: danah boyd on the online life of teenagers
  • danah boyd is “a kind of rock star emissary from the online and offline world of teenagers,” writes Pamela Paul in a New York Times profile. Boyd, who advocates for teenagers freedom to explore the Internet is an assistant professor … More
  • MCC Researcher Cites Benefits of Online Social Platforms
  • Concerned parents might view online chat rooms and social media platforms as dangerous territory, but social media scholar and youth advocate danah boyd insists the data simply does not support this grim view. In a two-page profile published by the ... More
  • Steinhardt in the News: Liel Leibovitz on Why SOPA is Bad Business
  • Last month Liel Leibovitz, a visiting assistant professor in Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, was interviewed on Al Jazeera English about the Stop Online Piracy Act. Lieboitz is the co-author of The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the … More
  • Cyber Crime Panel to Feature Senator Gillibrand, Helen Nissenbaum of NYU Steinhardt, and FBI and Facebook Reps
  • New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge will host a roundtable discussion on cyber crime, featuring U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Steinhardt Professor Helen Nissenbaum, and representatives from Facebook and the FBI, on Mon., Jan. 23, 8-10 a.m. at NYU’s Kimmel … More
  • A Tone Deaf GOP? Why the Party Fails to Appeal to the Majority of Black Voters
  • Coinciding with Martin Luther King Day, National Public Radio's On Point hosted a conversation about African Americans and the GOP that featured MCC Associate Professor Charlton Mcllwain. On Point's Tom Ashbrook starts the segment by referring to a ... More
  • Hope, Deferred
  • Recent NYU graduate and MCC honors program alumna Sara Haile-Mariam asks whether her generation miscalculated candidate Obama's ability to transform the presidency in the New York Times' Room for Debate. She writes: "President Obama must become the ... More
  • Minimalism and African Music
  • MCC Associate Professor Martin Scherzinger specializes in the field of sound studies and music theory, with a particular interest in non-western music. Scherzinger recently presented a talk on the subject of minimalism and the musical and sonic ... More
  • MCC Student Recognized for Commitment to Religious Unity
  • The Washington Square News has released its annual list of “Most Influential Students” and MCC Junior Chelsea Garbell is one of fifteen exceptional students selected this year. As president of Bridges, a Muslim-Jewish Interfaith ... More
  • Disability and Cybernetics
  • Science historian and MCC Assistant Professor Mara Mills has a paper published in the latest issue of Differences, a journal put out by Duke University Press. Mills' piece, "On Disability and Cybernetics: Helen Keller, Norbert Wiener, and the ... More
  • MCC Professor Discusses "Hactivism" at Brookings Institute
  • Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist and media scholar, took part in last week's "Hacktivism, Vigilantism and Collective Action in a Digital Age" panel in D.C. hosted by the Brookings Institute. Coleman sketches a compelling portrait of Anonymous, the ... More
  • Rodney Benson on Public Media as Engine for Democracy
  • Rodney Benson associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, discusses the political and cultural fallout of defunding National Public Radio (NPR) in The Christian Science Monitor’s Opinion column. Benson argues that research on public media in other democracies shows that public radio and television deserve support. “The highest quality, most independent public media systems – such as those in Germany, Britain, and the Scandinavian countries – tend to be those that can rely on a steady, substantial stream of public funding,” he writes. Benson views public media as “an engine for democracy,” a benefit, he believes that should resonate with lawmakers across the political spectrum. Read NPR defunding vote: Don’t diminish democracy to settle a political score. More