Digital Media scholarship emphasizes the production and reception of mediated messages designed to inform, persuade, educate, and entertain both historically and in contemporary society, the social cultural political, legal, economic, professional, and ethical implications of mediated messages, and the convergence that is both altering and reproducing historical assumptions about mass communication. We are committed to understanding media broadly. We are interested in the relationships between people and media as well as media messages, uses, representations, and reception both historically and in contemporary life. We are committed to understanding media broadly. We are interested in the relationships between people and media as well as media messages, uses, representations, and reception both historically and in contemporary life. Through critical dialogue, interpretations change as historians seek to deepen our understanding of the past as well as the evolution of todays salient issues. Through the study of contemporary media including journalism, visual media, and social media we emphasize the myriad ways media play significant roles in society.