Media and Society
"Media studies" refers to the examination of visual, aural, and textual information and entertainment that is reproduced and transmitted to mass audiences using a series of complex and changing technologies. HWS was among the first liberal arts colleges in the country to offer a major in Media Studies in 1996. From its inception, the Media and Society Program has fostered a sustained, sophisticated, and comprehensive analysis of the media’s pervasive cultural influence from a variety of perspectives and guided by two fundamental goals:
- To engage students in the critical analysis of the influences of mass media from both the socio-political and cultural/artistic perspectives.
- To stimulate students to express their creative imaginations through self-expression in writing and the visual arts.
Students in two of Assistant Professor of German Area Studies and Media and Society Ashwin Manthripragada’s classes explored the worlds of local Indigenous and refugee cultures recently with a field…
Double major in media and society and English Gianna Gonzalez ’20 has accepted a position with the Bozzuto Group as a sales and marketing associate in Boston, Mass. In her…
On Sunday, March 22, “60 Minutes” featured a new segment by Emmy Award-winning correspondent and HWS Trustee Bill Whitaker ’73, L.H.D. ’97, examining the aggressive approach researchers are taking to…
