The faculty members affiliated with Digital Humanities and Media Studies are undertaking innovative research that crosses traditional disciplinary lines, resulting in new collaborations and cross-pollinations throughout the university and beyond.  

There are four primary research directions represented by the faculty:

• DIGITAL CULTURAL MAPPING : Brings GIS, spatial modeling, and time-space visualizations together with humanistic methods for understanding cultural, social, and historical dynamics. 
  
• GENEALOGIES OF MEDIA THEORY: Examines the nexus between media and modernity, focusing on how technical media (such as print, radio, film, telivision, and web-based media forms) shape modernity. 
• TECHNOLOGIES OF THE TEXT: Through attention to both 'new' and 'old' media, examines the tremendous range of technologies of access to, and preservation of, language and accompanying image and sound across the millennia.
• GLOBAL MEDIA STUDIES: Investigates how diverse communities are using technologies and information systems to create new social worlds, national identities, and cultural ontologies that renegotiate cultural heritage and community in a global setting.

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