Re: any advice?

You might want to consider Media Ecology from the Department of Culture
and Communications at NYU.
http://www.nyu.edu/education/culturecomm/gradmedia.html


--- Alessandra Lusardi <alessandra_lusardi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I?m writing to ask for some academic advice ? please bear with me,
> this 
> might be vague and imprecise!  I graduated in 2000 with a degree in 
> Sociology, and have been giving serious thought for the past few
> months of 
> going back to graduate school.  My independent undergrad work tended
> toward 
> a study of media images (specifically, Madonna and celebrity culture,
> and 
> the fabrication and marketing of ?Generation X?).  This turned out to
> be a 
> rather difficult direction for me, given the lack of professors
> available on 
> campus who were familiar with that side of the field.  As my luck had
> it, 
> the couple who could have advised me were on leave.  As a result, I 
> graduated with a fairly developed sense of what I would have liked to
> 
> pursue, but little info on programs or paths available to follow.
> 
> So I ask the list for any suggestions on programs in the field of
> media 
> studies ? specifically in an area encompassing the meeting of media
> studies 
> and popular culture.  Vague, I know.  But any help on how to begin to
> 
> solidify this notion would be greatly appreciated.  My main interests
> - 
> within what I classify as ?media studies? in my mind (this may or may
> not be 
> the "official" definition - lie in the representation of cultures
> through 
> the mass media, the moral panics that sometimes accompany the
> representation 
> of non-mainstream groups and the commodification of subcultural
> styles that 
> often results (forgive me if I?m butchering Hebdige ? it?s been a
> couple of 
> years), as well as the general consumption of popular culture and its
> 
> symbiotic relationship with mass media.  I wonder what kind of
> umbrella 
> something like this would fall under ? is it really media studies, or
> am I 
> just confusing myself, since the mass media is usually how popular
> culture 
> is conveyed to the masses and ?made popular? (too often for
> commercial 
> purposes)?
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to read.  I hope someone is able to latch
> on to 
> any of this and offer a suggestion on where to look, or what kinds of
> things 
> to look for.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.  Please respond to me at 
> alessandra_lusardi@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> 
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