Department: Entertainment and Media Studies
EMST scholars are delving into the unanswered questions of communication and social networks; interactive media, video games and culture, and children and media; health and crisis communication; media law, policy, economics and management in a changing digital environment; media and culture; and the role of media in political and economic development.
Shira Chess received a Willson Faculty Research Fellowship for her project “The Occultic Internet: Shifting Realities in 21st Century Discourse.” The UGA of Willson Center supports supports excellence in arts […]
Read MoreZ. Jiang, Ryan Fernandez (Grady Emerging Media MA student), J. Lyu, H. Lee, and J. Fernandez. “Shopping in a Virtual World: The Influence of Spatial Crowdedness of Apparel Store on […]
Read MoreCarolina Acosta-Alzuru (October 2022). “El fenómeno de la telenovela turca / The Phenomenon of Turkish Dramas.” In Professor Giuliana Cassano’s course Géneros dramáticos televisivos globales / Global Dramatic TV Genres” […]
Read MoreKate Fortmueller. “‘Picture it, U.S. 2020…’: The Golden Girls and sitcom nostalgia during the pandemic,” in The Golden Age of Television: The Golden Girls Reader. Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and […]
Read MoreKate Fortmueller. “Who Cares about Media Industry COVID policies?” In Media Industries in Crisis: What COVID Unmasked. Edited by Vicki Mayer, Miranda Banks, and Noa Lavie. New York: Routledge. Abstract: During […]
Read MoreKate Fortmueller has become the section editor for “Film and Cinema: Industry Studies,” Routledge Resources Online: Screen Studies, Sarah Atkinson (general editor). New York: Routledge.
Read MoreWunpini Fatimata Mohammed was named winner of the 2022 Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research by the International Center for Research on Women. She received $2500 for the […]
Read MoreKate Fortmueller is co-moderating a webinar on “Working in the Media Industries: Qualitative & Quantitative Market Research,” from 12 noon to 1 p.m. on Sept. 16. Abstract: Interested in incorporating […]
Read MoreShira Chess and M. Consalvo. “The future of media studies is game studies,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2022, 39:3, 159-164, DOI:10.1080/15295036.2022.2075025 Abstract: Game studies, as a subfield of media […]
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