The graduate media and society program (MS) focuses on the interplay of institutions, texts, and audiences of mediated communication systems. Its strengths are the history of media, media theory, and the social impact of communication technologies. Its central aim is to examine modern media—radio, television, advertising, music, and a wide range of other popular cultural expressions—within their economic, historical, cultural, political, and social contexts to understand how society and social relations shape and are shaped by media practices.
Like the department’s other graduate programs, the MS program has a strong interdisciplinary flavor. Students draw not only on allied areas in the department but on fields across the University, including American studies, cinema and comparative literature, history, journalism and mass communication, political science, POROI, sociology, and women’s studies.
Mark Andrejevic, Assistant Professor, television & new media, critical theory, cultural studies
Sam Becker, University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
Timothy Havens, Assistant Professor, how cultural differences shape international TV business practices
Joy Hayes, Associate Professor. Media and nationalism, radio, media and dialogic theory.
Kembrew McLeod, Assistant Professor. Popular music and popular culture, intellectual property law.
John Durham Peters, Professor. Media history and theory
Barbara Welch Breder, Adjunct. Advertising, Consumer Culture
Related faculty in other departments includes faculty from various disciplines, most notably American Studies, Anthropology, Cinema and Comparative Literature, English, History, Journalism and Mass Communication, Law, Music, Political Science, and Sociology .
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