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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 2013, Latin American studies scholar Irina R. Troconis went back to Venezuela after the death of Hugo Chávez to find herself trapped in the presence of the leader’s ghostly eyes. The Chronicle spoke with Troconis about the book “The Necromantic State: Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venez...
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During the past century, experimental poets in Japan have been stretching the conventional definition of the genre by creating poems in unexpected places: augmented reality apps, manipulated tape recorders, music videos, protest performances and other hybrid forms. In “Expanding Verse: Japanese ...
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Some of Nintendo's music has attained classic status, says music professor Roger Moseley.
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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.
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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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Cornell Media Studies is unique for its broad historical reach, and for the collaborative interaction among the disciplines from Classics to Information Science.