Patrick D. Murphy

Patrick D. Murphy (Ph.D., Ohio University) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media at Temple University. He is also the former Chair of the Department of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, a former Fulbright-García Robles fellow, and has served as a frequent Visiting Professor at the School of Communication and Humanities, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (I.T.E.S.M.), Querétaro Campus, Mexico.

He has taught global communication, media critical theory, documentary media and video production, and has published on the topics of the media and globalization, media reception, ethnographic method, and Latin American cultural theory. His work has appeared in Communication Theory, Cultural Studies, Global Media and Communication, The Howard Journal of Communication, The Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of International Communication, Popular Communication, and Qualitative Inquiry. Murphy is co-editor of Global Media Studies (Routledge, 2003) and Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformation in Emerging Democracies (SUNY 2007). Currently he is working on a book about mass media, globalization and the environment.

Delegation: Ecuador