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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 will consider a different media object, from office plants and listservs, to hieroglyphs, HTML, and mixtapes. Episodes will comprise a series of scenes, quotes, vignettes, and other fragments, all threaded together through sound.
Check out the podcast trailer and one of the first episodes, on Containers, below:
In his new book, “Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums,” published this month by University of California Press, Jeremy Braddock, associate professor in the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences, explores the group’s evo...
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The field of game studies is growing at Cornell, including an expanded set of classes, workshops and symposia and a growing library collection of games.
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CIVIC Interactive Media and Games, Spring Symposium
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Lissette Lorenz, PhD candidate in science and technology studies (STS), published two pieces in a recent special issue of Art + Media: Journal of Art and Media Studies. This issue, called "Cosmographies of Worlding and Unworlding", was guest edited by Cornell's Professor of Practice Jon McKenzie. In...
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The story of three Kiowa children who escaped a government boarding school in the winter of 1891 and died from the cold is one that faculty member Jeff Palmer heard many times growing up.
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It’s exhilarating for media scholar Anna Shechtman to see who shows up on the first day of an introductory media studies class: students from literature and theater, but also from computing, information science, East Asian studies, religious studies and other diverse majors. “I’ve come in at the ...
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Christine Bacareza Balance explores the rich milieu of the arts and of sensational politics in Filipino culture and history. Growing up as the child of Filipino immigrants in California, Christine Bacareza Balance, Performing and Media Arts, had no idea that the world of performing arts held a pl...
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Reconsidering John C. Lilly is a one-day symposium convened by Hannah Zeavin (UC Berkeley) and Jeffrey Mathias (Cornell University).
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Cornell Media Studies is unique for its broad historical reach, and for the collaborative interaction among the disciplines from Classics to Information Science.