With a world class faculty and up-to-date production facilities, Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies offers two undergraduate programs of study and an MFA degree in Integrated Media Arts. [more...]
Emerging Media Student Meeting
For current student interested in Emerging Media
Weds. Oct. 20 | 1:15-3PM (in person & online)
in person: TV Studio (HN436)
online recording: https://youtu.be/BYdWQ5YgkfQ
Students are invited to learn about the Emerging Media curriculum in the Film & Media Department and to meet some of the faculty. Faculty will answer questions that you may have about classes. The curriculum may be found on the Media Studies major page.
Making Sense of Media
The overarching focus of the text’s ten chapters is on the measures to control media content and contain potential meanings, from the printing press and podcasts to streaming services and social media sites. In varying ways, each chapter considers the diverse control and containment mechanisms. These include official church and state censorship, partisan press priorities, right to copy restrictions, state and federal court mandates, statutory restraints, movie, radio, and television formats and formulas, advertiser and public relations ploys, and the prevailing attention-selling prototype. A central consideration is how the profited-minded custodians of evolving media techniques and technologies—private corporations, hedge funds, and transnational conglomerates—affect depictions in news and entertainment fare of the rich mosaic of colors, cultures, and communities long comprising American society.
Prof. Ricardo Miranda’s collaborative web exhibit »Mutations« opens today (Sept. 24th). The goal of the »Mutations« web residency is to engage artist collectives working on the heterogenous theme of mutations – biological, sociopolitical, technological – in relation to the global digital divide. The five winners of this prize spent one month in Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Web Residency. The jury hopes that the grant will enable the artist, and activists to continue exploring and developing their proposed projects. The »Mutations« web residency culminates in a web exhibition with works from each of the five winners.
