Editing Media studies (section)

=== United States ===
[[Mass communication]], [[communication studies]] or simply 'communication' are names that are used far more frequently than “media studies” for academic departments in the United States. However, the focus of such programs sometimes excludes certain media—film, book publishing, video games, etc.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=T. L |url=https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.23943/9780691184975 |title=Watch me play: Twitch and the rise of game live streaming |date=2018 |isbn=978-0-691-18497-5 |doi=10.23943/9780691184975 |oclc=1048895825 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}}</ref> The title “media studies” may be used to designate film studies and rhetorical or critical theory, or it may appear in combinations like “media studies and communication” to join two fields or emphasize a different focus. It involves the study of many emerging contemporary media and platforms, with social media growing in popularity in recent years.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gong |first1=Zhaoya |last2=Cai |first2=Tengteng |last3=Thill |first3=Jean-Claude |last4=Hale |first4=Scott |last5=Graham |first5=Mark |date=2020-05-22 |title=Measuring relative opinion from location-based social media: A case study of the 2016 U.S. presidential election |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=15 |issue=5 |pages=e0233660 |arxiv=2002.00854 |bibcode=2020PLoSO..1533660G |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0233660 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=7244148 |pmid=32442212 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Broadcast and cable television is no longer the primary form of entertainment, with various screens offering worldwide events and pastimes around the clock.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822386278 |title=Television after TV |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-8223-3383-8 |editor-last=Olsson |editor-first=Jan |doi=10.1215/9780822386278 |editor2-last=Spigel |editor2-first=Lynn}}</ref> Many institutions within the United States have since changed and revised their media studies programs.

In 1999, the MIT Comparative Media Studies program started under the leadership of [[Henry Jenkins]]. The program has since grown to include a graduate program; it is MIT's largest humanities major, and, following a 2012 merger with the Writing and Humanistic Studies program, now has a roster of twenty faculty, including Pulitzer Prize-winning author [[Junot Díaz]], science fiction writer [[Joe Haldeman]], games scholar [[T. L. Taylor]], and media scholars [[William Uricchio]] (a CMS co-founder), [[Edward Schiappa]], and Heather Hendershot.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=About Comparative Media Studies|url=https://cms.mit.edu/about/|access-date=2020-11-10|website=MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies|language=en-US}}</ref> Now named Comparative Media Studies/Writing, the department places an emphasis on what Jenkins and colleagues have termed "applied humanities": it hosts several research groups for civic media, [[digital humanities]], games, computational media, documentary, and mobile design, and these groups are used to provide graduate students with research assistantships to cover the cost of tuition and living expenses.<ref name=":0" /> The incorporation of Writing and Humanistic Studies also placed MIT's Science Writing program, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Writing and Communications Center under the same roof.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing|url=https://cmsw.mit.edu/about/|access-date=2020-11-10|website=MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2000, the Department of Media Studies was officially established in 2000 at the [[University of Virginia]]; the interdisciplinary major has rapidly grown and doubled in size in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mission and Academics {{!}} Department of Media Studies|url=https://mediastudies.as.virginia.edu/mission-and-academics|access-date=2020-11-10|website=mediastudies.as.virginia.edu}}</ref> This is partly thanks to the acquisition of Professor [[Siva Vaidhyanathan]], a cultural historian and media scholar, as well as the Inaugural Verklin Media Policy and Ethics Conference, endowed by the CEO of Canoe Ventures and UVA alumnus David Verklin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/365654-David_Verklin.php|title=David Verklin|work=broadcastingcable.com|access-date=26 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611084015/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/365654-David_Verklin.php|archive-date=11 June 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[University of California, Irvine]] had professor [[Mark Poster]], who was one of the first and foremost theorists of media culture in the US and boasted a strong Department of Film & Media Studies. [[University of California, Berkeley]] has three institutional structures within media studies that take place in the department of Film and Media (formerly Film Studies Program), including famous theorists as [[Mary Ann Doane]] and [[Linda Williams (film scholar)|Linda Williams]], the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies. This change eliminated any connotations that may have accompanied the term “mass” in the former title. Until recently, [[Radford University]] in Virginia used the title "media studies" for a department that taught practitioner-oriented major concentrations in journalism, advertising, broadcast production, and web design. In 2008, those programs were combined with a previous department of communication (speech and public relations) to create a School of Communication. (A media studies major at Radford still means someone concentrating on journalism, broadcasting, advertising or Web production.)

[[Brooklyn College]] has collaborated with [[City University of New York]] to offer graduate studies in television and media since 2015. Currently, the Department of Television and Radio administers an MS in Media Studies, and hosts the Center for the Study of World Television.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Made in NY - Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - About|url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/news_2015/100115_feirstein_school_opening.shtml|access-date=2020-11-10|website=www.nyc.gov}}</ref>