Media, Culture, and Communication Faculty News

Celebrating a Half Century of Electronic Art and Media History

Open Circuits Revisited, sponsored by NYU Media, Culture, and Communication, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the NYU Center for Disability Studies, explored accessibility and video art on the 50 year anniversary of the groundbreaking conference.

African Journalists Reporting on Africa

A new book by Media, Culture, and Communication Assistant Professor j. Siguru Wahutu speaks with, and looks at the reportage of, African journalists depicting their own continent.

NEH Grant to Study Implications of AI Listening Technologies

With a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Media, Culture, and Communication Assistant Professor Edward Kang will convene experts to examine the relationship between machine listening systems and society.

Cool Course: Critical Making

Students in this hands-on course engage with software and hardware to create a technological device—no engineering or coding experience required.

Award Highlights Impact on Disability and Communication

Media, Culture, and Communication Associate Professor Mara Mills was recognized by the National Communication Association for outstanding achievement and enduring impact in disability and communication studies.

How the Computer Became Personal

Media historian Laine Nooney documents the rise of the personal computer in the new book, The Apple II Age.

Whit Pow Receives Arnold Grossman Faculty Award

The award honors faculty for their commitment to education, outreach, and advocacy that centers queer and trans understandings of the world.

Personal Photography from Kodak to Polaroid to the iPhone

Named a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, Media, Culture, and Communication Professor Marita Sturken will work on a book tracing the history of personal photography.

A History of (and a Strike Against) White Sight

From Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Nicholas Mirzoeff, a leading scholar of visual culture, comes a monograph about the white gaze and the tactics for dismantling it.

Global Media Research with Impact

Media, Culture, and Communication's Paula Chakravartty has been appointed a James Weldon Johnson Professor by the Provost's Office in recognition of her research on racial capitalism and global media infrastructures, as well as migrant labor mobility and justice.

Media History Told Through Code

A new video game from media scholar Alexander Galloway links to his research practice of reviving obsolete software.

Faculty Book Receives Honorable Mention from the American Studies Association

"Legal Spectatorship," by Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Kelli Moore, challenges our understanding of domestic violence.

Nicole Fleetwood Receives $1M Grant from the Mellon Foundation for Prison Art Initiative

Support of Steinhardt Professor Nicole Fleetwood's Marking Time initiative will amplify the art of the incarcerated.

Steinhardt Professor Nicole Fleetwood Named MacArthur Fellow

The Media, Culture, and Communication professor is one of 25 exceptional individuals recognized by the MacArthur Foundation for creating objects of beauty and awe, advancing our understanding of society, and fomenting change to improve the human condition.

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