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PLATFORM SHIFTS

Media Change in an Ever-Evolving Institution

Angelica Vergel, Author

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Media Studies History

The New School has long been a pioneer in exploring the ever-shifting media landscape. The university offered one of the first film courses, Terry Ramsay's "The Motion Picture," in 1926, and incorporated the Center for Understanding Media, thus forming the first media studies program, in 1974. As we discuss in this section of the exhibition, media studies at The New School has, since its inception, been concerned with the way media, in their ever-evolving forms, incite shifts in the way we think, the way we relate to one another, the way we engage with our world. Media also have the potential to function as platforms through which we can effect meaningful change in the world. As faculty and students have together explored these potentials, they've thought across media, examining the unique affordances of different platforms and experimenting with the way media are critically understood and put responsibly and creatively to use. The three stories in this section relay how Media Studies' core intellectual and pedagogical values have both remained constant and shifted to reflect changes in the technological terrain, changes in the nature of the university, and changes in the world at large.
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