Doctor's degrees in Mass Communication + Media Studies: A program that focuses on the analysis and criticism of media institutions and media texts, how people experience and understand media content, and the roles of media in producing and transforming culture. Includes instruction in communications regulation, law, and policy; media history; media aesthetics, interpretation, and criticism; the social and cultural effects of mass media; cultural studies; the economics of media industries; visual and media literacy; and the psychology and behavioral aspects of media messages, interpretation, and utilization.
Brown University
Doctorate
Modern Culture and Media | Brown University |
The Department of Modern Culture and Media is concerned with the study of film, video, digital media, photography, sound, and print. These media are not understood in a narrow sense, for a departmental premise is their centrality to all modern and contemporary cultural practices; "media" are conceived in conjunction with modern cultural and social histories and networks, and vice versa. The Ph.D. program prepares students to engage in rigorous and... |
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