The admissions deadline for our PhD Program is January 2nd, 2024.
The Research and Intellectual Life Committee invites you to the launch of the Communication Resea
Media Memory, Media Effects, Political Films, Film Studies
computer-mediated discourse, online communities, social media, figurative language
Media literacy, Media effects, Film and Television studies, Victimhood Nationalism and Memory studies
Digital Media Studies, Information Flows, Online Radicalism, Misinformation
Recent Conference Presentations:
Yang, T., Zhu, G., & Wu, F. (2023). Participate in Philanthropy for Idols or for Society? Fans’ Practices, Identity, and Civic Action in Chinese Online Fandom. Presented at the 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference (ICA 2023), Toronto, Canada, May 25-29, 2023.
civic implications of media entertainment, digital fandom, fan activism, popular culture
Online radicalism, Political communication among Asian Americans, Surveillance and Moderation, Masculinity and Intimacy
Dr.
The Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst invites applications f
The Department of Communication is accepting applications for a full-time Lecturer in writing/com
Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with performance, experimental film, installation, printmaking, and analog photography. Her research examines alternative histories of experimental film and expanded cinema by Black feminist media-makers. Select exhibitions institutions include BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), Microscope Gallery (New York, NY), Block Museum (Chicago, IL), MoCA, Arlington (Arlington, VA), Hauser & Wirth (Los Angeles, CA), PLATFORM Centre (Winnipeg, MB), and The Shed (New York, NY). She was a 2022 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Resident (Bronx, NY), a 2018-2019 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Studies Program, and a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow from 2017-2022 at Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY). Her film work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (2020) and is currently working on a manuscript on the life and work of abstract artist, Camille Billops. She received her PhD in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (Montréal, QC).
Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer working with pe