New York University

Studies how media ownership and the political economy of news shape journalism, comparing news production and immigration coverage across France, the US, and other countries.

Studies gender and communication, conflict management, listening, and organizational and cross-cultural communication in everyday and workplace life.

Studies the comparative political economy of media, race, empire, migration, and labor, combining critical analysis with field-based research on migrant debt in India.

Studies the history and politics of media, cultural resistance, and creative activism, from zines and punk to utopian politics, and builds open digital activism resources.

Studies violence, the body, the senses, and visual politics through ethnography in Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the global war on terror.

Studies Black art and cultural history, photography, documentary, and art made under mass incarceration through critical, curatorial, and art-historical analysis.

Studies philosophy, technology, and theories of mediation, developing critical theory of digital media, interfaces, and software alongside software art projects.

Studies media history, American book history, and techniques of inscription, tracing how new media and documents become meaningful against older media.

Studies migration, media flows, globalization, and transnational feminism, including ethnographies of gender, violence, and motherhood in south India and the Indian diaspora.

Studies race, digital media, and racial justice activism, including histories of Black internet use and how US political candidates invoke race in campaigns.

Studies visual culture, visuality, and visual activism, analyzing whiteness, Black Lives Matter, and Palestine through critical image analysis.

Studies the history of television and post-war US technology, design, and industry, including color TV and closed-circuit television as infrastructure, as a media historian.

Studies television, Hindu nationalism, and the transformation of the public sphere in India, examining media, urban space, and political violence.

Studies cultural memory, visual culture, and consumerism, analyzing memorials, museums, and media of the Vietnam War, AIDS, and post-9/11 American memory.

Studies art education, creative labor, design, and aesthetic value in postsocialist China through anthropological and semiotic analysis.

Studies the legal and regulatory regimes governing cross-border flows of media and culture, including trade agreements, UNESCO cultural diversity policy, and national film policy.

Studies disability and media, tracing the history, politics, and cultures of electronics, sound technologies, and digital media through disability studies and STS.

Studies how media and technology produce legal and political knowledge, analyzing domestic violence imagery, courtroom evidence, and race in US legal history.

Studies the history and economics of the video game and personal computer industries, such as the Apple II and Sierra On-Line, through historical and cultural analysis.

Studies Latin American transnational media corporations, US Latino television, and Latino representation, with comparative research on Ibero-American television fiction.

Studies how media technologies produce space and collective experience, such as mediated megachurch worship and PowerPoint, using cultural history and psychological methods.

Studies sound, music, media, and politics, examining digital sound technologies, copyright, censorship, and global circulation of music across Europe, Africa, and America.

Studies the psychic life of technology, including addiction, gambling machine design, and self-tracking devices, through ethnography and documentary film.

Studies technology, media, territory, and politics in the Middle East, especially Palestine, examining borders, checkpoints, telecom infrastructure, and surveillance.

Studies the politics of platforms, data, and knowledge infrastructures in China, using genealogical and STS approaches to platform governance and critical data studies.

Studies China's data-driven governance and global outreach via digital platforms, using multi-sited ethnography of Chinese immigrant real estate and EB-5 brokerages in New York.

Studies how AI and machine listening systems formalize voice, emotion, and intelligence, drawing on science and technology studies, sound studies, and history of science.

Studies the cultural politics of energy, infrastructure, and environment, analyzing pro-oil social media campaigns and pipeline archives through materialist media and Indigenous studies lenses.

Studies decarbonization, digitalization, and development, examining how energy infrastructures and environmental media reshape landscapes and livelihoods in Southwest Asia.

Studies trans and queer of color media history, examining how the state mediates trans lives through archives and bureaucratic documents, alongside electronic art and game history.