The Vision of MMSS

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and its members and beliefs, have been spotlighted in the media throughout the Church's history, and have been highly visible in recent years. They also have been actively engaged always in the production of media content, and in the use of new communications technologies. (The term "media" is used broadly to refer to books, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, electronic communications, film, etc.)

While circumstances and technologies have changed over time, the media have been central to the Mormon experience, and to the interface of Mormonism and its adherents with societies, governments, institutions, and individuals.

The bi-annual Mormon Media Studies Symposium, sponsored by the Department of Communications, Brigham Young University, is dedicated to encouraging scholarship in the field of Mormon Media Studies. The Symposium provides a forum for rigorous, interdisciplinary academic study and discussion of all aspects of Mormons and the media, in the present as well as the past, and fosters the development of a global community of scholars and practitioners around this issue.