Career Strategies in Media Studies

Alex Campolo, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and

Communication at NYU

amc989@nyu.edu | @alexcampolo

How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid

The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive

Showmanship That Have Taken Over Our Thinking

Franck Frommer, 2012

How to think about a career?

Media nonprofits and NGOs

• Why work in the nonprofit sector?• Challenges and opportunities

What did I do as a research analyst…...and how did media studies prepare me?• Qualitative research• Design (print and web)• Proposal and report

writing• Internal

communications and strategy

• Public writing (blogs) and publicity (social media)

Excerpt from 2011 report for MTV

Getting a PhD

Strategies for continuing in academia

• Write a thesis• Find mentors• Present your work• Be open to alternatives

Career Strategies in Media Studies

Alex Campolo, PhD Candidate, Department of Media, Culture, and

Communication at NYU

amc989@nyu.edu | @alexcampolo