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.
In a new course, students explored the theories and histories of experimental film with short films of their own. In “The Art of Experimental Cinema,” a new course taught by…
After graduation, Rachel Meller ’21 will join Merkley + Partners as a Social Coordinator. After interning with the advertising firm Merkley + Partners last summer, Rachel Meller ’21 leveraged the experience and landed…
A new comedy from executive producer Daniel Webb ’13 explores the pratfalls of social media and “going viral.” Eat Wheaties! follows Sid Straw, played by Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Veep), who is…
