Department of Media, Culture, and Communication

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Welcome

Chair's Message

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC) is committed to the proposition that society is a form of communication. Our core pursuit is advancement of research, scholarship, and teaching in the various ways that people make, disseminate and share meaningful symbols as individuals and social groups. To us, communication is the foundational practice of human experience and culture is the shared, lived realities of particular groups. We investigate the ways in which the technologies of communication record, transmit and shape what we know and do.

The department provides a rich diversity of undergraduate and graduate courses. Our academic terrain is interdisciplinary, equally informed by the humanities and social sciences. Students and scholars of culture and communication must appreciate and explore communicative and cultural practices that extend beyond their own place and time.

Instruction ranges from theoretical and historical accounts of communication systems in general to specific case studies of particular forms, methods, and modes of communication. Our courses confront the issues and challenges that changing technology, media forms, institutions, and social and cultural habits present to us in a global and connected age.

Working with the professional communities in New York City and elsewhere, we seek to build our students' professional competencies and support their desire to pursue careers in communication and media. We also produce original and innovative scholarly research of the highest caliber and seek the broadest possible dissemination of our work, reaching the widest possible array of publics.

—Ted Magder, Chair

Council for Media and Culture
We are an affiliate department of NYU's
Council for Media and Culture. 		 

News & Events

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JUL 15, 2008
Conti awarded NSF Grant

Cynthia Conti, Media, Culture, and Communication PhD candidate, was awarded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for her project "Low-Power FM and the Paradoxes of Broadcast Localism."

JUL 15, 2008
Osman secures Research Awards

Wazhmah Osman, NYU Steinhardt Media, Culture, and Communication PhD candidate, received two research awards for the completion of her dissertation research: the FLAS (Foreign Language & Area Studies) award, and also the NYU-University of Cambridge Mainzer Fellowship in Gender Studies.


JUL 15, 2008
McIlwain on controversial New Yorker magazine cover

In a special video commentary for the New York Post, Media, Culture, and Communication professor Charlton McIlwain comments on the controversial New Yorker magazine cover satirizing racial attacks on Barack Obama.

JUL 15, 2008
Coleman on Hackers and Free Software

Gabriella Coleman, NYU Steinhardt professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, was interviewed by the largest newspaper in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in an article about hackers and free software. 

JUL 14, 2008
Professor Charlton McIlwain on CNN's American Morning

On CNN's American Morning, NYU Steinhardt Professor of Culture and Communication Charlton McIlwain comments on recent criticisms from Obama supporters about his new centrist positions.