The Council serves to facilitate collaboration among scholars, to enhance research in the fields of media and cultural studies, and to disseminate new knowledge.
Individual faculty, academic institutions, as well as private and non- profit organizations seeking to collaborate on research in the broad fields of media and culture are encouraged to contact the Council with proposals.
Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis. Please email a 300-word abstract of the project to council.media.culture@nyu.edu.
Council members are currently researching in the following areas:
- Communication policy and law
- Globalization
- Cross-national consumer research
- Cognitive science and educational technologies
- Cultural memory
- Visual culture
- Sociology of news
- Cultural resistance
- Persuasion and rhetoric
- Organizational communication
- Interpersonal communication
- Social anthropology
- Ethnographic film
- Digital media
- Gender
- Identity
- Indigenous Media
- Religion and Media