我们今天面临的挑战–社会和环境的不公正，气候变化，不稳定的工作，监视以及不断缩小的公共领域–面临着巨大，复杂和多方面的挑战。在许多其他方面，它们是沟通和文化问题，需要紧急参与。传播，新媒体和文化研究（CNMCS）博士课程面向富有创造力的学生，他们喜欢复杂，热衷于难题，并渴望知识，艺术和教学方法的冒险，以推动积极的社会变革。该计划汇集了三个跨学科领域，所有这些领域都源于尝试使用艺术，人文科学和社会科学的工具来理解和辩论重大问题：文化研究始于试图阐明超出大学特权空间的文化的重要性，研究旨在了解大众媒体如何改变
The challenges we face today—social and environmental injustice, climate change, precarious work, surveillance, and a shrinking public sphere—are big, complex and multifaceted. Among their many other dimensions, they are questions of communication and culture, which demand urgent engagement. The PhD in Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies (CNMCS) is for creative students who embrace complexity, love difficult questions, and hunger for intellectual, artistic, and pedagogical risk-taking driven towards positive social change. This program brings together three interdisciplinary fields that all originated in attempts to understand and debate big problems using tools from the arts, humanities, and social sciences: cultural studies began by trying to articulate the significance of culture beyond the privileged space of the university, communication studies wanted to understand how mass media was changing modern society, and new media scholars and artists wanted to probe how computing and digital communications were changing human knowledge and creativity. Each of these fields understands that the problems we face today, with all their varied technological, economic, ecological, and political implications, are, fundamentally, problems of communication and culture. Learning to read, critique, and create culture, media, and communication is critical to seeing things, and doing things, in new ways. The PhD in Communication, New Media, and Cultural Studies (CNMCS) is a joint program between the Departments of Communication Studies and Multimedia (CSMM) and the Department of English and Cultural Studies (ECS). Our many complementary strengths are in areas including new media arts, performance, policy, visual culture, digital culture, musicsound, gender and sexuality, critical race studies, indigenous studies, postcolonial and diasporic studies, transnational culture and international communications, critical environmental studies, political economy, professional communication, and media analysis and strategy. The program draws faculty members from CSMM and ECS as well as other departments in the Humanities to act as supervisors of CNMCS doctoral students.