New and emerging platforms and applications of digital culture play key roles in the transformations underway in contemporary society and culture. The major in Media Studies teaches students to think systematically about the workings and meanings of these rapidly changing technologies, activities, and systems and their manifold cultural impacts across the globe. engage with ideas relating to how media shape society and how they can be used for broad societal impact; cultivate a perspective of engaged citizenship by learning how to navigate, filter, and evaluate? mediated information and imagery; and consider media forms, content, reception, and production in local, national, and international/global contexts of creativity, art, technology, and industry.