Media Studies at the University of Virginia

05/11/2025

08/29/2024

Very excited about my new graduate seminar this semester, How to Write a Book. It covers the publishing industry as well as writing, editing, publicity, marketing, etc. Guest speakers will include my UVa colleagues and friends Paul Reyes, Allison Wright, Mark Edmundson, Grace Hale, Will Hitchcock, and Bruce Holsinger. Zooming in will be legendary editor Mark Warren. I'm working on scheduling a literary agent and an academic editor as well.

11/29/2023

08/27/2020

Is there a connection between mass incarceration and the undermining of democracy in America? Listen to Professor Elizabeth Hinton walk us through its historical and political ramifications on the new episode of Democracy in Danger.

It's a new podcast I do with UVA historian William Hitchcock.

‎Society & Culture · 2020

08/19/2020

Dear Friends,
I need a favor from you. This week we released the fifth episode of our podcast, Democracy in Danger. Word is getting out and subscriptions are booming. But we only have five reviews on Apple Podcasts. Would you mind taking a listen to an episode or two and writing a few sentences about it? That would be really helpful.
-- Siva

‎Society & Culture · 2020

11/13/2019

My department, the UVA Department of Media Studies ,⁦⁩ is accepting applications for its new MA program. Please send your best graduating students to study with me and my fabulous colleagues.

This section answers most of the questions that occur to prospective and current applicants regarding the M.A. in Media, Culture, and Technology. Please read the information below carefully and if you have questions not addressed here, you may contact the Director of Graduate Studies at DGS_MDST@vir...

03/22/2019

Professor’s work paints alarming portrait of Facebook’s power