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The Council for Media and Culture provides a forum for scholarly and public ventures that probe the form and content of human communication in mediated environments.
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  • Sex in the Event of Happiness: LeBoff 2012 Lecture...More
  • 2012 Council for Media & Culture grant period open
  • 2011 Council for Media & Culture grants awarded, winners announced
  • Richard Sennett awarded Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Cambridge University
  • Mellon Foundation funds Alliance for Networking Visual Culture
  • Mark Crispin Miller Named 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
  • Rodney Benson and Matthew Powers report on "Public Media and Political Independence"
  • Clay Shirky Joins Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
  • NYU Anthropology magazine available at www.anthronow.com
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We live in a world saturated with screens, images and objects, all demanding that we look at them. Our work is mediated by screens, demanding virtuoso skills... More »

Tourists of History

In Tourists of History, cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices. More »

Nations Matter

Calhoun re-examines nationalism in light of post-1989 enthusiasm for globalization and new twenty-first century anxieties. More »

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