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Kelli Moore Wins Fellowship
Assistant Professor Kelli Moore has been named one of ten Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholars at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. The award supports junior faculty whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture, and society, and ... More About Kelli Moore Wins Fellowship
At Weber Shandwick, NYU Students Celebrate Graduation and a Capstone Project
The power of digital imagine activism was one of the research projects undertaken by a Media, Culture, and Communications MA candidate at Weber Shandwick, a global public relations agency. More About At Weber Shandwick, NYU Students Celebrate Graduation and a Capstone Project
Department Awards 2019
The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication is pleased 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 ... More About Department Awards 2019
Yoav Halperin's Work on Israeli Digital Activism Wins Award
Doctoral student Yoav Halperin will receive the Best Student Paper award from the International Communication Association's Activism, Communication, and Social Justice interest group at its annual conference next month. The paper, ... More About Yoav Halperin's Work on Israeli Digital Activism Wins Award
What Students Are Learning: How the Computer Became Personal
Laine Nooney, assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC) and Tega Brain, assistant industry professor in the Tandon School of Engineering, are teaching History of Computing: How the Computer Became Personal to undergraduate students. More About What Students Are Learning: How the Computer Became Personal
Michelle Pfeifer Receives International Dissertation Fellowship
Awarded a dissertation fellowship, MCC doctoral student Michelle Pfeifer will spend the next academic year at Freie University in a paid residency administered by the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. Established in 1986, the ... More About Michelle Pfeifer Receives International Dissertation Fellowship
Radha Hegde Recognized for Advancement of Feminist Scholarship
Professor Radha Hegde will receive the 2019 Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship at the International Communication Association conference in Washington, DC on Monday, May 27. After Hegde's acceptance remarks, members of the ... More About Radha Hegde Recognized for Advancement of Feminist Scholarship
Alexander Galloway Named 2019 Guggenheim Fellow
Professor Alexander Galloway has been named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow. He joins an eminent list of 168 scholars, artists, and writers from across the US and Canada. The Guggenheim Foundation awards fellowships to individuals “who have already ... More About Alexander Galloway Named 2019 Guggenheim Fellow
Making an Impact through Public Relations: An Interview with Shalon Roth (BS ’05)
Shalon Roth (BS ’05) graduated from NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication with honors. Since her graduation, she has worked on the front lines of public relations and communications agencies serving start-ups to multinational publicly traded companies. Shalon is the founder of PR-it, a global community of communications experts delivering 24/7 on-demand work for […] More About Making an Impact through Public Relations: An Interview with Shalon Roth (BS ’05)
A Prize for Bright Signals: A History of Color Television
Bright Signals: A History of Color Television(Duke University Press, 2018) by Susan Murray, associate professor of media, culture, and communication, has received the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ 2019 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award. Bright Signals tells the story of color television within a broader cultural history of twentieth-century aesthetics. In tracing the development […] More About A Prize for Bright Signals: A History of Color Television
Award-Winning Book Offers Cultural History of Color TV
Editor's note: in her book Bright Signals: A History of Color Television (Duke University Press), MCC Associate Professor Susan Murray positions the story of color television within a broader cultural history of twentieth-century aesthetics. In ... More About Award-Winning Book Offers Cultural History of Color TV
MCC Conference in Berlin Convenes Global Media Scholars
The conference "Transubstantiating Transmission: Walls Become Ports Become Channels,” held on October 12-13, included six MCC faculty members, four PhD students, and one MCC alum. Several distinguished German media theorists, art curators and ... More About MCC Conference in Berlin Convenes Global Media Scholars
Taking “Diversity and Inclusion” to the Next Level: An Interview with Leslie Stevens, MCC Weber Shandwick Scholar
Leslie Stevens is a recipient of an MCC Media Diversity Scholarship at Weber Shandwick, a global communications and engagement agency. Her interests lie at the intersection of social media, culture, race, identity, and power. As an undergraduate, she published her first academic research paper in the Howard Journal of Communication in 2017, examining Black Twitter as a […] More About Taking “Diversity and Inclusion” to the Next Level: An Interview with Leslie Stevens, MCC Weber Shandwick Scholar
“Coffee is Crucial”: An Interview with Jordan Cohen (BS ’11), Director of Communications at The New York Times
Jordan Cohen (BS ’11) serves as a director of communications at The New York Times where he helps oversee external communications, media appearances, and speaking engagements for Times reporters, editors and business executives. He also collaborates with teams across The New York Times Company to increase the global reach and engagement of Times journalism by implementing […] More About “Coffee is Crucial”: An Interview with Jordan Cohen (BS ’11), Director of Communications at The New York Times
Can We Make This Alumni Profile Go Viral?…And Other Questions for Valerie Streit (MA ’06)
Valerie Streit (MA ’06), leads partner and product operations at Google where she assures high-quality, diverse news content in Search, Google News, YouTube and Assistant. Previously at YouTube, she cultivated platform growth strategies and audience insights with a focus on the news vertical. She has also led publisher outreach to help drive adoption to the Accelerated […] More About Can We Make This Alumni Profile Go Viral?…And Other Questions for Valerie Streit (MA ’06)
Student Delegation Attends Global Leadership Summit in South Africa
A delegation of four NYU undergraduate students explored the meaning of social justice and inclusion in higher education through cross-cultural dialog at the Global Leadership Summit in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in July. Vivienne Felix, associate director of experiential learning at NYU Steinhardt, led the delegation, which met with student from Africa, Asia, the European Union, and […] More About Student Delegation Attends Global Leadership Summit in South Africa
Two Steinhardt Alumnae Nominated for 2018 Emmy Awards
NYU Steinhardt congratulates Erin Doyle and Ali Feindstein, two alumnae nominated for 2018 Emmy Awards for their work on television shows. Erin Doyle (BS ’07), who graduated from with a degree in communication studies, was nominated for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series as a producer for NBC’s Creating Saturday Night Live. Ali Feinstein, (BS ’11), a […] More About Two Steinhardt Alumnae Nominated for 2018 Emmy Awards
MCC Faculty Recognized for Teaching Excellence
Three members of the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication faculty received teaching accolades this month: Clinical Associate Professor Aurora Wallace, Assistant Professor Finn Brunton, and Adjunct Professor Eugene Secunda.Professors ... More About MCC Faculty Recognized for Teaching Excellence
Four Steinhardt Students Win Fulbright Grants
Four Steinhardt Students are among twenty-one New York University students and recent alumni who have been selected as Fulbright Scholars for 2018-19. Under this U.S. Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs program, recipients teach or conduct research abroad during the upcoming academic year. This year’s NYU Steinhardt Fulbright awardees are: Undergraduate Recipients […] More About Four Steinhardt Students Win Fulbright Grants
Media in Pakistan
A fellowship from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies will enable MCC doctoral student Asif Akhtar to conduct dissertation research in the India Office Archives at the British Library for six months next year. With this extended archival ... More About Media in Pakistan
MCC Student Among Inaugural Urban Doctoral Fellows
First year PhD student Sandeep Mertia has been named an NYU Urban Fellow. The new university-wide program aims to increase collaboration and scholarly discourse among a diverse set of faculty and students engaged in urban research. The competitive ... More About MCC Student Among Inaugural Urban Doctoral Fellows
Alexander Galloway Receives Berlin Prize
MCC Professor Alexander Galloway is among the recipients of the 2018-2019 Berlin Prize—a semester-long fellowship administered by the American Academy in Berlin. The highly coveted prize is awarded annually to scholars, writers, composers, ... More About Alexander Galloway Receives Berlin Prize
MCC and Weber Shandwick Launch Masters in Residence Program
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 About MCC and Weber Shandwick Launch Masters in Residence Program
Professor Robles-Anderson Recognized by the Society for the History of Technology
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 About Professor Robles-Anderson Recognized by the Society for the History of Technology
NYU’s Incubator for Disability Research and Activism
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 About NYU’s Incubator for Disability Research and Activism
Professor Hegde Wins Prestigious Charles H. Woolbert Research Award from the National Communication Association
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 About Professor Hegde Wins Prestigious Charles H. Woolbert Research Award from the National Communication Association
Foundations: A Remedy, With Shortcomings, to the Journalism Crisis
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 About Foundations: A Remedy, With Shortcomings, to the Journalism Crisis
Nominated by their Students, Three MCC Faculty Win Teaching Awards
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 About Nominated by their Students, Three MCC Faculty Win Teaching Awards
CFP: 'Mediated Populisms' The 2017 Neil Postman Graduate Conference
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 About CFP: 'Mediated Populisms' The 2017 Neil Postman Graduate Conference
How Do We Know What to Believe? Media Literacy in 2017
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 About How Do We Know What to Believe? Media Literacy in 2017
MCC Professor Is Founding Editor of New Online Journal
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 About MCC Professor Is Founding Editor of New Online Journal
MCC Professor Receives Award from the Future of Privacy Forum
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 About MCC Professor Receives Award from the Future of Privacy Forum
Research Grants Fund Summer Fieldwork for Two MCC Doctoral Students
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 About Research Grants Fund Summer Fieldwork for Two MCC Doctoral Students
MCC Symposium Explores Contemporary Art in China in Anticipation of 2017 Guggenheim Exhibition
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 About MCC Symposium Explores Contemporary Art in China in Anticipation of 2017 Guggenheim Exhibition
Activist Hashtags: Counterpublics and Discourse Circulation
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 About Activist Hashtags: Counterpublics and Discourse Circulation
Research Looks at How Racial Inequality is Produced Online
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 About Research Looks at How Racial Inequality is Produced Online
Rise of China’s Culture Industries
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 About Rise of China’s Culture Industries
MCC Doctoral Candidate Receives Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowship
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 About MCC Doctoral Candidate Receives Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowship
Professor David Wills Examines Space and Place at NYU Tel Aviv
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 About Professor David Wills Examines Space and Place at NYU Tel Aviv
Student Award Winners 2016
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 About Student Award Winners 2016