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Media are the means through which society is reflected, tested, challenged, and changed. Our Media Studies program encompasses a broad historical reach and encourages collaborative interaction among the disciplines from classics to information science. Exploring diverse modes of communication from hieroglyphs to algorithms, Media Studies allows students to gain skills in interpretation, evaluation and formal media production.
Media Objects is a new podcast produced by The World According to Sound and Cornell Media Studies. Each episode considers a different media object, from office plants and listservs, to hieroglyphs, HTML, and mixtapes. Featuring the voices of thirteen Cornell Media Studies faculty, each sonic essay comprises a series of scenes, quotes, vignettes, and other fragments, all threaded together through sound.
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In the first weekend of May, a group of graduate and undergraduate students from Cornell University attended the Margaret Mead Film Festival, one of the longest-running and most prestigious showcases of ethnographic and documentary films in the world. The trip was organized as an experiential learning initiative connected to coursework in visual anthropology and ethnographic…
A sonic experience where the audience sits blindfolded is returning to Cornell March 23 for a 6 p.m. performance in Sage Chapel.
Some of Nintendo's music has attained classic status, says music professor Roger Moseley.
A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.
Cornell Media Studies is unique for its broad historical reach, and for the collaborative interaction among the disciplines from Classics to Information Science.
