Stella Flores and Charlton McIlwain had lunch with Steinhardt’s Weber Shandwick scholars last week. The meeting was a chance to share insights about professional and educational opportunity. Lauren Hom (pictured below, far right) is among four students chosen for the NYU at Weber Shandwick Masters in Residence, a program designed to increase the number of diverse professionals […] More
NYU Steinhardt has joined leading global communications firm Weber Shandwick to launch its NYU at Weber Shandwick Masters in Residence, a program designed to increase the number of diverse professionals in the media industry. Through this program, four students pursuing master’s degrees from Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication work at Weber Shandwick to […] More
NYU Steinhardt and Weber Shandwick form first-of-its-kind partnership to increase technology-engaged, diverse professionals in media, and bridge the academic-professional gap.
Global media agency Weber Shandwick and the NYU Department of Media, ... More
Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading global communications and engagement firms, announced the launch of NYU at Weber Shandwick: Masters in Residence, a first-of-its-kind program for master’s students created in partnership with NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. The program is focused on increasing the number of technology-engaged, globally-savvy, diverse, future professionals […] More
An article coauthored by Associate Professor Erica Robles-Anderson has received the 2017 Mahoney Prize from the Special Interest Group in Computers, Information, and Society, a research division within the Society for the History of ... More
The field of disability studies looks at the historical, social, and legal circumstances that shape the experience of disability. It also recognizes that disability is not a matter of discrete impairments — but rather an opportunity for ... More
The field of disability studies looks at the historical, social, and legal circumstances that shape the experience of disability. It also recognizes that disability is not a matter of discrete impairments — but rather an opportunity for coalition or identification. For the past decade, a group of NYU faculty — led by Mara Mills, associate […] More
Sunday night was a good night for NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” — including one of the show’s producers, Erin Doyle (BS ’07), a graduate of NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Doyle and her colleagues won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for “Saturday Night Live.” Congrats to all on an extraordinary night! #SNL #Emmys […] More
Radha S. Hegde, Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt, has received the National Communication Association’s 2017 Charles H. Woolbert Research Award.
Given annually, the award honors a journal ... More
Nonprofit journalism organizations have made notable civic contributions, but fall short of offering a strong critical alternative to the market failure and professional shortcomings of commercial journalism, finds a new study from NYU’s ... More
Nonprofit journalism organizations have made notable civic contributions, but fall short of offering a strong critical alternative to the market failure and professional shortcomings of commercial journalism, finds a new study from NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The study, published online in the journal Journalism, describes both the possibilities and limits […] More
Two members of the Steinhardt community received multiple nominations for Emmy Awards for their work producing and scoring hit television shows. Erin Doyle (BS ’07), who graduated from NYU Steinhardt with a degree in communication studies, is nominated for two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series as a producer for NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” as […] More
“Police killings captured on cell-phone video or photographs have become the hallmark of United States visual culture in the twenty-first century,” writes Nicholas Mirzoeff, a professor in Steinhardt’s Department of Media Culture, and Communication, in The Appearance of Black Lives Matter. Mirzoeff’s book examines the transformation of visual culture spanning the time of the deaths […] More
Associate Professors Mara Mills and Paula Chakravartty, and Clinical Assistant Professor Jamie Bianco, have received 2017 New York University teaching awards.
Mills is the recipient of NYU Steinhardt’s Teaching Excellence Award, which ... More
CFP Deadline: Monday, May 15, 2017Conference: Friday, October 6, 2017
For more information and to submit an abstract, please visit postmanconference.org.
At 3:30 a.m. on November 9, just after the 2016 U.S. election results were announced, ... More
The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the Center for Communication will host “Media Literacy: Be Your Own Critic” on Monday, March 6, 2017 from 6:30 to 8 pm.
In this panel discussion, media thought leaders and ... More
Associate Professor Mara Mills is among the founding editors of the new biannual journal Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.
Catalyst was conceived to expand the feminist and critical intellectual legacies of science and ... More
Three faculty members from the Jazz Studies program in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at NYU’s Steinhardt School received a total of four 2017 Grammy Award nominations, announced today by the Recording Academy. John Scofield received two nominations, one for Best Instrumental Jazz Album for his album Country For Old Men and […] More
The Future of Privacy Forum announced that a paper co-authored by MCC Professor Helen Nissenbaum was one of five academic papers to receive its annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award. The paper, Privacy of Public Data, is pending ... More
Gaza as Metaphor (Hurst Publishers, 2016) demonstrates the realities of life within Gaza through a collection of essays by journalists, writers, doctors, academics, and others. Edited by Helga Tawil-Souri, associate professor of media, culture, and communication at NYU Steinhardt, and University of London’s Dina Matar, the volume contextualizes how the current situation in Gaza is […] More
Angela Arias-Zapata and Colette Perold received grants from the Tinker Foundation for travel to Latin America to conduct pre-dissertation research. The intent of the Tinker funding is to “allow students to familiarize themselves with ... More
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication will host Art and China after 1989: New Perspectives. The symposium, which includes 15 emerging scholars in the field of contemporary Chinese ... More
A new journal article by doctoral candidate Rachel Kuo examines the ways in which hashtags frame and drive racial justice discourse. The piece, published in the latest issue of New Media & Society, focuses on the usage of hashtags ... More
Internet users tend to navigate between websites in a racially segregated way, despite pathways that provide equitable access to different sites, finds a new study by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. The ... More
A new book by Professor Lily Chumley examines the emergence of China’s creative economy as “culture workers,” tasked with developing new imaginaries to stimulate consumption in the post-socialist marketplace, burst onto ... More
MCC PhD candidate Liz Koslov is among an impressive group of Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Completion Fellows selected from a pool of nearly 1,000 applicants through a rigorous peer review process. Her thesis Retreat: ... More
David Clinton Wills, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, will teach a new Dean’s Global Honors Seminar in New York and Tel Aviv in fall 2016. The seminar will combine a semester-long course In New York with a one ... More
The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is happy to announce the winners of its undergraduate and graduate departmental awards. To feature this talented group, we updated the classic Proust Questionnaire and collected their candid ... More
At its annual spring conference, SCMS announced the selection of MCC Assistant Professor Nicole Starosielski's The Undersea Network as the best first book published in the field of film and media studies in the last ... More
MCC is pleased to announce that Stanford Professor Fred Turner will lead a special graduate seminar entitled Cybernetics and Its Histories later this month. The course will begin with Norbert Wiener's coining of the term in 1948, offering ... More
The Technology, Privacy, and the Future of Education symposium, hosted by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt, brings together educational specialists, journalists, and academics to open a dialogue around the ... More
MCC Professor Helen Nissenbaum and Cornell computer scientist Deborah Estrin have received $300,000 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled A Research Agenda to Explore Privacy in "Small Data" Applications.
Together they will ... More
With Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance (University of Chicago Press), Arjun Appadurai, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, delves into the culture of derivative finance and ... More
MCC student Audrey Turner received the award for her paper entitled "Selfies as Lacan's Mirror Stage," which she presented at last weekend's New York State Communication Association conference.
The paper, written for MCC Professor Feldman's seminar ... More
Media scholar and cultural anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll has been appointed Associate Professor in the NYU Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, effective July 1, 2015.
Schüll joins NYU Steinhardt from MIT's ... More
The Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response is proud to present an important report, Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues. The report is co-authored by Helen Nissenbaum New York University; Department ... More