Media Studies

The Activist Angler

A new book by Media, Culture, and Communication professor Stephen Duncombe considers the parallels between fly fishing and a life of activism.

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.

Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration Opens at The Schomburg Center

The exhibition, curated by Media, Culture, and Communication Professor Nicole Fleetwood, will be on view at the historic research library from May through December 2023.

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.

Five Ways Kids' Cards Make for a Very Gendered Valentine's Day

Over 30 years ago, an NYU Steinhardt professor’s research showed how children’s valentines perpetuate binary gender stereotypes. Decades later, not much has changed.

NYU Steinhardt Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

Huda Hassan will join the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, and Ruby Yu will work with the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.

Four Media Studies Alumni Receive 2023 NEH Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities announced its selections last month, and four alumni from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication are among the recipients.

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.

To Form a More Perverted Union

Associate Professor Brett Gary details the successes of attorney Morris Ernst against obscenity laws from the 1920s-1950s in his 2021 book, Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution.

Digital Interests Lab Funded by Microsoft

Generous award to fund two postdoctoral fellowships on racial equity in technology and data justice.