John Durham Peters
F.
Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor
Media History and Social Theory
Ph.D. Stanford University
Office: 125 BCSB
phone (319) 353-2258
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John is interested in media and cultural history, communication and social theory, and understanding communication in its broad historical, legal, philosophical, religious, and technological context. He teaches large lecture undergraduate classes such as Core Concepts in Communication Studies and Media and Society, and smaller undergraduate courses such as Case Studies in Transnational Media. At the graduate level, he teaches seminars on critical theory, the history of mass communication theory, media and modernity, pragmatism, the public sphere, and transnational media.
Curriculum Vitae
Courses
- 36M:349 The Voice in Culture and History
- 008:231 Crossing Borders Seminar: Transborder Communications and Its Discontents, with Kenneth Cmiel (Fall 2004)
- 36:241 Theories of Mass Communication (Fall 2004)
- 187:003 Issues in International Studies: Case Studies in Transnational Media (Fall 2004)
- 187:003 Case Studies in Transnational Media (Fall 2004)
- 36:074 Media and Society - Fall 2003 syllabus
- 36M:366 The Public Sphere - Fall 2003 syllabus
- Philosophy of Media - syllabus
- 36:001 Core Concepts in Communication Studies - syllabus
- 36M:627 Media Theory: Media and Conversation - syllabus
Books
Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition by John Durham Peters. Chicago University Press, 2005.
Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. by John Durham Peters. Chicago University Press, 1999,
Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? Should There be? How About These? Elihu Katz, John Durham Peters, Tamar Liebes, and Avril Orloff, eds. Polity Press, Cambridge England, 2003.
Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919-1968. John D. Peters and Peter Simonson, eds. Rowman & Littlefield. 2004