Newhouse Media Studies & PhD Program

Looking forward to seeing Media Studies alums at the International Communication Association conference in Paris! Brad, Makana, and other Newhouse faculty are here - you know how to find us!

Our students have been busy - getting their work accepted to the International Communication Association's annual conference this year in Paris! Trés bien!

Thinking about joining the Media Studies or PhD program? Know that we provide funding to help students get to national and international conferences to present their research.

Media Studies students are doing some pretty cool stuff!

Graduate Student Aims to Persuade Stakeholders of the Realities of Climate Change through Immersive Media Francesca Ortega ’20, G’22 wants to help neighbors in her native Miami experience what their neighborhood will look like when it is under water. The city, surrounded by water and built on layers of porous limestone, is already experiencing the effects of rising sea levels due to global climate c...

Interested in applying to the Media Studies program for Fall 2021 but worried you missed the Jan. 15 deadline? Don't fret - you can still apply!

First day of class for new (and returning) Media Studies students! Only a few Zoom glitches (ok, some might have been operator error), but we are moving forward!

Less than a week now until the start of socially distanced classes at Syracuse University, and we are ready to welcome a new cohort to campus!

Proud prof moment: I was reading the JMCQ article "Experimental Evidence for Differences in Prosocial Effects of Binge-watched versus Appointment-viewed Television Programs" and saw that Media Studies alumna Lesley Corral's Master's thesis about binge watching effects was cited!

Thinking about going on for a Ph.D.? The application deadline for our Ph.D. program is Dec. 1. We offer full-funding, financial support for conference travel, and dissertation funding!

Media Studies and PhD alumni - interested in coming back to Syracuse as a professor? Know someone who might relish this opportunity? The COM dept in Newhouse is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of media and diversity, broadly defined. Research is an emphasis for this line. Feel free to contact Brad Gorham for more information, or follow the link below:

Assistant Professor - Communications The Communications Department is seeking applicants in the area of Media and Diversity Issues, broadly defined. This recruitment is part of an ambitious Invest Syracuse Cluster Hire Initiative in the broad area of Social Difference/Social Justice. As an integral part of this investment, Syracuse Uni...

Media Studies alums go on and do cool things - like alumna and current Wisconsin-Madison PhD candidate Josephine Lukito, who was cited in the Mueller report and then appeared on CNN to discuss her research.

SJMC Graduate Student Josephine Lukito Discusses Research Project on CNN Visit the post for more.

Newhouse Media Studies grads go on to do important research, but how many can claim to have been cited in the Mueller Report? Josephine Lukito's (MS grad, now PhD candidate at Wisconsin) research on how US news media quoted tweets by Russians thinking they were American citizens - which you can read about at the link below - was cited by Mueller (on p.27, footnote 71). Way to go, Jo!

Most major outlets have used Russian tweets as sources for partisan opinion: study The New York Times’s Bari Weiss was in the news again yesterday, this time for citing a hoax Twitter account as an example of liberal intolerance. Just how often do such Twitter accounts make it into mainstream media, as did in Weiss’s column? While it is well-established that Ru...

Still thinking about going to graduate school to research media, but worried you missed the deadline to apply? Well, no worries - we are still accepting applications to the Media Studies program at the Newhouse School!