Josh Jackson
Book a 15-min block at: calendly.com/jacksonjosh Research Interests: Digital and new media, television, media and culture, convergence, media industries and production cultures, media history Courses Taught: MS10: Introduction to Media Studies MS101: Visual Communication MS165: Internet and Culture MS180: Television Studies Dr. Josh Jackson is your assigned Media Studies Faculty Advisor if you are an intended major or if you are a declared Media Studies major and your last name begins with H through O. Media Studies Faculty Advisors are the experts in the study of media and can talk […]
Rich Jaroslovsky
Rich Jaroslovsky was the founding Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, and founded and served as the first president of the Online News Association. He was also White House correspondent and national political editor of The Journal, and executive editor and technology columnist for Bloomberg News. Hes currently Vice President for Content & Chief Journalist at SmartNews, a news aggregator for mobile devices. Research interests: Media history; impact of digital technologies on newsgathering and dissemination of news; changing economic models of media organizations.
Ian Kivelin Davis
Dr. Ian Davis is your assigned Media Studies Faculty Advisor if you are a declared Media Studies major and your last name begins with A – G. Media Studies Faculty Advisors are the experts in the study of media and can talk with you about your academic, career and graduate school goals. Faculty Advisors make decisions regarding course substitutions for the major, which means you go to them when you want a course reviewed as a substitution for an approved course or are planning to study abroad. If you would […]
Matthew Berry
Matthew Berry earned his Ph.D in History at UC Berkeley. His dissertation, an intellectual biography focusing on the “grandfather“ of modern Vietnam, is titled Confucian Terrorism: Phan Bội Châu and the Imagining of Modern Vietnam. Research Interests: the shaping and use of history for political ends, extremist ideologies, nationalism, and modernization/globalization theory. Courses Taught MS 111B – Text & Data Media History MS 111C – Audio-Visual Media History MS 112 – Media Theories and Processes MS 168 – Cybernetics and Cybercultures MS 190 – Special Topics, The Ad: A Global History […]
Meeta Rani Jha
Dr. Meeta Rani Jha is your Media Studies Faculty Advisor if you are a declared Media Studies major and your last name begins with P through Z. Media Studies Faculty Advisors are the experts in the study of media and can advise you on academic, career and graduate school goals. Faculty Advisors make decisions regarding course substitutions for the major, which means you go to them when you want a course reviewed as a substitution for an approved course or are planning to study abroad. Faculty do not have access […]
Emma Fraser
Emma Fraser is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Media Studies and the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), teaching digital media methods, digital storytelling, game studies, and new media theory and practice to graduate and undergraduate students. Emma’s research considers digital culture, space and place, modern ruins, and visual media in relation to urban experience and the writings of Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. Emma also researches and writes about games and play across sociology, geography, game studies and media and cultural theory. Courses Taught Media Studies MEDIAST 132: […]