Patrick D Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 80769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick D Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick D |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY P D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5888-3403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Participation” models for environmental stewardship: Roots, trajectories, and core principles from environmental communication and participatory communication for social change
“Participation” in the research trajectories of Participatory Communication for Social Change (PCSC) and Environmental Communication (EC) has been driven by many of the same points of concern, such as community engagement and decision-making power tied to conflict and cooperation. Despite these overlaps, the two subfields have largely developed their understanding of participation in isolation. To help bridge this gap, this article traces the roo…
Roots and trajectories: Essays on the legacy of Jesús Martín-Barbero in global communication studies
“Roots and Trajectories: Essays on the Legacy of Jesús Martín-Barbero in Global Communication Studies” is an introduction to this special collection for Media, Culture & Society’s Crosscurrents. Our introduction serves to contextualize and frame the role of Martín-Barbero’s theoretical roots and epistemological gaze in the essays authored by Omar Rincón (Colombia), Amparo Marroquín Parducci (El Salvador), Marwan Kraidy (Lebanon) and Nick Couldry …
Speaking for the youth, speaking for the planet: Greta Thunberg and the representational politics of eco-celebrity
Greta Thunberg is the world’s best-known environmental activist. She has been covered by the international press, featured on television talk shows, presented in music videos, and been the object of social media memes – a visibility that has made her a global celebrity. But unlike other public figures whose stardom is attached to, rather than driven by environmental activism, Thunberg’s eco-celebrity is anchored to her role in starting a global c…
The New Macho Man Is Out to Destroy Us All
A raging global pandemic producing hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of cases of prolonged illness should also produce humbling reflections on humanity’s place in the much greater materi
Pollywogs and Polylogues: Material Spirituality in the Writings of Mary Oliver
Over the half century of her publishing career, from the late 1960s through the late 2010s, Mary Oliver made use of language, imagery, and rituals that either explicitly drew on various religious t
From Limits to Ecocentric Rights and Responsibility: Communication, Globalization, and the Politics of Environmental Transition
This article provides a comparative map of the outstanding discursive features and shared underpinnings of the Limits and Transition discourses (TDs) by examining how they have been communicated to reshape the public sphere. Though both are deeply implicated in globalization, the formation of these environmental discourses responds to distinct sets of social agents and interests and to different but complementary ontological and epistemological g…
Lessons from the Zombie Apocalypse in Global Popular Culture: An Environmental Discourse Approach to the Walking Dead
In the last few decades, the zombie apocalypse has become the subject of films, television programmes, video games and other entertainment fare all over the world. This has not only made the zombie an important allegorical figure in global popular culture, but tales of resource scarcity, ecological collapse and post-“event” life on Earth are now universally recognized by audiences all around the world. But as texts that present a world defined by…
Complexity Integration, Ecocritical Analysis, and Gary Snyder Studies
George R. Stewart began his 1941 novel, Storm, with a quote from Sir Napier Shaw, who wrote in his Manual of Meteorology: Every theory of the course of events in nature is necessarily based on some
The Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourses
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, institutional analysis, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's many distinct, competing, and even antagonistic environmental discourses, demonstrating how the media pushes us to save the w…
Introduction: Gary Snyder
This special issue had its origin in the ongoing work of Dr. Joan Qionglin Tan and her Center for Gary Snyder Studies housed at Hunan University, Changsha, China, which promotes analysis and transl
Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourses
Voice, Visibility, and Recognition: Vertical and Horizontal Trajectories of Human Rights and Social Justice Media
Historically, the articulation of human rights and social justice discourses has typically coalesced around topics of peace and conflict, governance, transparency, and accountability. News media ha
Pessimism, Optimism, Human Inertia, and Anthropogenic Climate Change
Kim Stanley Robinson has addressed the topic of climate change in both his science fiction novels and in talks given at such places as Google headquarters. In the Science in The Capital trilogy he presented various ideas for averting abrupt climate change, but actually spent more pages providing the perspectives of a sociobiologist about human behavior. I was puzzled by that when I read those works and his selection of such an individual as his p…
Community Resilience and the Cosmopolitan Role in the Environmental Challenge-Response Novels of Ghosh, Grace, and Sinha
My title brings together three key components for this study: resilience, cosmopolitanism, and challenge-response. The designation of the texts considered here—Patricia Grace's Potiki, Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, and Indra Sinha's Animal's People—as challenge-response novels is loosely based on Arnold Toynbee's theory of the rise and fall of civilizations. I revise his concept, however, by focusing on the orientation that he took regarding th…
The Abbreviated Field Experience in Audience Ethnography: End Times for a Media History Paradigm
In an effort to contend with virtual fields of communication and cultural exchange and institutional constraints, a growing corpus of ethnographic work within audience studies has dispatched with the notion that fieldwork is constituted through sustained encounters in stable, situated fieldsites, thus shifting the ethnographic mise‐en‐scène to more accessible networked worlds of virtual communities or to inquiry driven wholly by prearranged inter…
The Procession of Identity and Ecology in Contemporary Literature
The VLDL transport vesicle (VTV) mediates the transport of nascent VLDL particles from the ER to the Golgi and plays a key role in VLDL-secretion from the liver. The functionality of VTV is controlled by specific proteins; however, full characterization and proteomic profiling of VTV remain to be carried out. Here, we report the first proteomic profile of VTVs. VTVs were purified to their homogeneity and characterized biochemically and morphologi…
Locating Media Ethnography
This chapter contains sections titled: Ethnographic Roots and Trajectories Media Ethnographies and the Field Media Ethnographies and the Study of Production Ethnographic Identity in Fieldwork The Dissolving Field? Making Ethnographic Media Ethnography References
Putting the Earth into Global Media Studies
Journal Article Putting the Earth into Global Media Studies Get access Patrick D. Murphy Patrick D. Murphy 1School of Communications & Theater, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 21, Issue 3, August 2011, Pages 217–238, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01384.x Published: 19 July 2011
Book Notes
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and international. He concludes his argument with a di…
Shifting Geertz: Toward a Theory of Translocalism in Global Communication Studies
Journal Article Shifting Geertz: Toward a Theory of Translocalism in Global Communication Studies Get access Marwan M. Kraidy, Marwan M. Kraidy 1Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6220 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick D. Murphy Patrick D. Murphy 2Department of Mass Communications, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1775 Search for…
Grounding Anotherness and Answerability through Allonational Ecoliterature Formations
Grounded in the Bakhtinian-based concepts of anotherness and answerability and the green critical theory of Robyn Eckersley, this essay argues that political organizations and communities have responded to the limitations of the contemporary nation state by developing a variety of ethically progressive allonational formations – alternatives to the nation states – reflecting Eckersley’s principle of affectedness. These are represented in a wide ra…
Introduction: Between Macondo and McWorld: communication and culture studies in Latin America
However, as new hybrid cultural configurations reflective of recent 'globalizing' processes such as liberalization, privatization, and democratization have surfaced (Garca Canclini, 1989), theorists have been forced to reconsider the relationship(s) between culture and power.For mass communication scholars, this has meant rethinking how the cultural industries serve to enable certain kinds of social control while also stimulating the expression o…
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction
Fielding the Study of Reception: Notes on "Negotiation" for Global Media Studies
As an emerging area of inquiry, "global media reception studies" has quietly amassed into a minor industry of scholarship. Of this body of work, ethnographic studies stand out in terms of their rigor and depth and their potential to engage theoretically our understanding of audiences' negotiation of meaning-a construct rooted in Hall's (1996) encoding/decoding model-which is important because the negotiation of meaning occupied a central place in…
Shifting Geertz: Toward a Theory of Translocalism in Global Communication Studies
Journal Article Shifting Geertz: Toward a Theory of Translocalism in Global Communication Studies Get access Marwan M. Kraidy, Marwan M. Kraidy 1Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6220 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Patrick D. Murphy Patrick D. Murphy 2Department of Mass Communications, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1775 Search for…
Doing Audience Ethnography: A Narrative Account of Establishing Ethnographic Identity and Locating Interpretive Communities in Fieldwork
This article is an account of how ethnographic identity was constituted and how audiences were located during the early stages of an ethnography of television viewers in Mexico. The description takes a narrative form and details the field experience and acknowledges the visibility and self-interest of the ethnographer. Writing about the field experience in such a fashion is motivated by the fact that few studies of media reception provide discuss…
Global media studies: Ethnographic perspectives
Part 1: Introduction, Chapter 1 Towards an Ethnographic Approach to Global Media Studies, Part 2: Situating Ethnography in Global Media Studies, Chapter 2 The Problem of Textuality in Ethnographic Audience Research, Chapter 3 Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World, Chapter 4 Where is Audience Ethnographer's Fieldwork?, Chapter 5 Audience letters and letter-writers: Constituting the Audience for R…
The Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourses
Today's global media sustains a potent new environmental consciousness. Paradoxically, it also serves as a far-reaching platform that promotes the unsustainable consumption ravaging our planet. Patrick Murphy musters theory, institutional analysis, fieldwork, and empirical research to map how the media communicates today's many distinct, competing, and even antagonistic environmental discourses, demonstrating how the media pushes us to save the w…
Speaking for the youth, speaking for the planet: Greta Thunberg and the representational politics of eco-celebrity
Greta Thunberg is the world’s best-known environmental activist. She has been covered by the international press, featured on television talk shows, presented in music videos, and been the object of social media memes – a visibility that has made her a global celebrity. But unlike other public figures whose stardom is attached to, rather than driven by environmental activism, Thunberg’s eco-celebrity is anchored to her role in starting a global c…
Media Cultural Studies' Uncomfortable Embrace of Ethnography
This article explores ethnography's place in media cultural studies by examining obstacles that have frustrated ethnographic practice. The author argues that although audience ethnographies developed in cultural studies have nourished theory, most disparage fieldwork in favor of more abstract theoretical exercises. Resistance studies, postmodernism, and anthropology's encounter with post-structuralism are examined in relation to this tendency in …
From Limits to Ecocentric Rights and Responsibility: Communication, Globalization, and the Politics of Environmental Transition
This article provides a comparative map of the outstanding discursive features and shared underpinnings of the Limits and Transition discourses (TDs) by examining how they have been communicated to reshape the public sphere. Though both are deeply implicated in globalization, the formation of these environmental discourses responds to distinct sets of social agents and interests and to different but complementary ontological and epistemological g…
Introduction: Between Macondo and McWorld: communication and culture studies in Latin America
However, as new hybrid cultural configurations reflective of recent 'globalizing' processes such as liberalization, privatization, and democratization have surfaced (Garca Canclini, 1989), theorists have been forced to reconsider the relationship(s) between culture and power.For mass communication scholars, this has meant rethinking how the cultural industries serve to enable certain kinds of social control while also stimulating the expression o…
The Anthropologist's Son (or, Living and Learning the Field)
Behar asserts that any story worth telling calls on us to explore and expose our own cultural biography. Reflecting on my relationship with my father, an anthropologist, and my experiences in Mexico, I draw on my own cultural biography to argue for the continuing importance of "the field." Throughout my life, my father's approach to ethnography has generated important ethnographic lessons while also conflicting with much of the current discourse …
Putting the Earth into Global Media Studies
Journal Article Putting the Earth into Global Media Studies Get access Patrick D. Murphy Patrick D. Murphy 1School of Communications & Theater, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 21, Issue 3, August 2011, Pages 217–238, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01384.x Published: 19 July 2011
Fielding the Study of Reception: Notes on "Negotiation" for Global Media Studies
As an emerging area of inquiry, "global media reception studies" has quietly amassed into a minor industry of scholarship. Of this body of work, ethnographic studies stand out in terms of their rigor and depth and their potential to engage theoretically our understanding of audiences' negotiation of meaning-a construct rooted in Hall's (1996) encoding/decoding model-which is important because the negotiation of meaning occupied a central place in…
Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics, and Literary Practice
Ecofeminist philosophy and literary theory need mutually to enhance each other's critical praxis. Ecofeminism provides the grounding necessary to turn the Bakhtinian dialogic method into a critical theory applicable to all of one's lived experience, while dialogics provides a method for advancing the application of ecofeminist thought in terms of literature, the other as speaking subject, and the interanimation of human and nonhuman aspects of na…
Voice, Visibility, and Recognition: Vertical and Horizontal Trajectories of Human Rights and Social Justice Media
Historically, the articulation of human rights and social justice discourses has typically coalesced around topics of peace and conflict, governance, transparency, and accountability. News media ha
Pessimism, Optimism, Human Inertia, and Anthropogenic Climate Change
Kim Stanley Robinson has addressed the topic of climate change in both his science fiction novels and in talks given at such places as Google headquarters. In the Science in The Capital trilogy he presented various ideas for averting abrupt climate change, but actually spent more pages providing the perspectives of a sociobiologist about human behavior. I was puzzled by that when I read those works and his selection of such an individual as his p…
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and international. He concludes his argument with a di…
Sex-Typing the Planet
Beyond Nature? Recent Work in Ecocriticism
Ecofeminism and Postmodernism: Agency, Transformation, and Future Possibilities
I begin this essay by presuming that most of my audience is more familiar with concepts related to postmodernism than with those of ecological feminism, more commonly termed ecofeminism. One reason for such a presumption is that I and my presumed audience are already living in the condition of postmodernity as educated professionals in a postindustrial nation-state and have, as a result, been introduced to the various ideas that arise from the id…
Contrasting perspectives: Cultural studies in Latin America and the United States: A conversation with Néstor García Canclini
In this interview Latin American scholar Néstor García Canclini discusses the emergence of Latin American cultural studies. García Canclini argues that the development of cultural studies specific to Latin America has merit because it provides a multidisciplinary tool for exploring regional relationships between folklore, the rural and the indigenous, the urban and the mass media, and the intersections of social structures and traditions. Differe…
Conserving Natural and Cultural Diversity: The Prose and Poetry of Pat Mora
Patrick D. Murphy; Conserving Natural and Cultural Diversity: The Prose and Poetry of Pat Mora, MELUS, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 March 1996, Pages 59–69, https
Dialogics and Didacticism: John Brunner’s Narrative Blending
Brunner has faced and largely solved a dilemma confounding many SF authors: he has balanced the contradictory demands of entertainment and enlightenment by producing “dialogical,” “polyphonic” novels (in Bakhtin’s sense of those terms). The four Brunner novels that best exemplify this dialogical structure are Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, and The Shockwave Rider. Rendering Stand polyphonic is its multiplicity of viewpoin…
Feminism faces the fantastic
Sex-Typing the Planet
Reducing the Dystopian Distance: Pseudo-Documentary Framing in Near-Future Fiction
The ascendancy of dystopian over utopian visions in the course of the last 100 years or so has created a problem for the writers of such fictions. As dystopias have become commonplace, their subliminative dimension has increasingly triumphed over their cognitive function—which is to say that they tend to produce a cathartic elimination of anxiety rather than offering the kind of understanding that makes their readers want to act to change the wor…
Somagrams in an other tongue: Patricia Hampl's “resort”
Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics, and Literary Practice
Ecofeminist philosophy and literary theory need mutually to enhance each other's critical praxis. Ecofeminism provides the grounding necessary to turn the Bakhtinian dialogic method into a critical theory applicable to all of one's lived experience, while dialogics provides a method for advancing the application of ecofeminist thought in terms of literature, the other as speaking subject, and the interanimation of human and nonhuman aspects of na…
Stability of Parental Nurturance as a Salient Predictor of Self-Esteem
The relationship of parental nurturance to self-esteem for seven distinct adolescent and early-adulthood age groups (N = 784) was investigated. Analysis showed that even though mothers' and fathers' nurturance together were more strongly related to self-esteem during the junior high school years (R2 values greater than 50% were obtained in each of the junior high samples) than during the high school and college years (R2 values less than 40% were…
Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture
Chinese popular culture is extremely diverse and richly complex. The 18 chapters in this reference provide the most current and comprehensive bibliographical and descriptive study of Chinese popular culture in English. The chapters, each devoted to a particular topic, are written by expert contributors who offer comprehensive surveys of research materials and discuss the most important points of critical interest. The opening chapters of the book…
Conserving Natural and Cultural Diversity: The Prose and Poetry of Pat Mora
Patrick D. Murphy; Conserving Natural and Cultural Diversity: The Prose and Poetry of Pat Mora, MELUS, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 March 1996, Pages 59–69, https
Placing "The Nature of Margins"
Art and the Natural Environment
Ecofeminism and Postmodernism: Agency, Transformation, and Future Possibilities
I begin this essay by presuming that most of my audience is more familiar with concepts related to postmodernism than with those of ecological feminism, more commonly termed ecofeminism. One reason for such a presumption is that I and my presumed audience are already living in the condition of postmodernity as educated professionals in a postindustrial nation-state and have, as a result, been introduced to the various ideas that arise from the id…
Contrasting perspectives: Cultural studies in Latin America and the United States: A conversation with Néstor García Canclini
In this interview Latin American scholar Néstor García Canclini discusses the emergence of Latin American cultural studies. García Canclini argues that the development of cultural studies specific to Latin America has merit because it provides a multidisciplinary tool for exploring regional relationships between folklore, the rural and the indigenous, the urban and the mass media, and the intersections of social structures and traditions. Differe…
Introduction to Three Okinawan Poets
Introduction to Japanese Environmental Activist Writing
Media Cultural Studies' Uncomfortable Embrace of Ethnography
This article explores ethnography's place in media cultural studies by examining obstacles that have frustrated ethnographic practice. The author argues that although audience ethnographies developed in cultural studies have nourished theory, most disparage fieldwork in favor of more abstract theoretical exercises. Resistance studies, postmodernism, and anthropology's encounter with post-structuralism are examined in relation to this tendency in …
Doing Audience Ethnography: A Narrative Account of Establishing Ethnographic Identity and Locating Interpretive Communities in Fieldwork
This article is an account of how ethnographic identity was constituted and how audiences were located during the early stages of an ethnography of television viewers in Mexico. The description takes a narrative form and details the field experience and acknowledges the visibility and self-interest of the ethnographer. Writing about the field experience in such a fashion is motivated by the fact that few studies of media reception provide discuss…
Beyond Nature? Recent Work in Ecocriticism
The Anthropologist's Son (or, Living and Learning the Field)
Behar asserts that any story worth telling calls on us to explore and expose our own cultural biography. Reflecting on my relationship with my father, an anthropologist, and my experiences in Mexico, I draw on my own cultural biography to argue for the continuing importance of "the field." Throughout my life, my father's approach to ethnography has generated important ethnographic lessons while also conflicting with much of the current discourse …
International Communication, Ethnography, and the Challenge of Globalization
This article articulates media ethnography with international communication theory in the context of globalization. It explores the history and regional trajectories of media ethnography, as well as anthropology's epistemological and political issues of representation that have become relevant to media studies. The authors argue that rethinking the limits and potential of media ethnography to address cultural consumption also necessarily involves…
Global media studies: Ethnographic perspectives
Part 1: Introduction, Chapter 1 Towards an Ethnographic Approach to Global Media Studies, Part 2: Situating Ethnography in Global Media Studies, Chapter 2 The Problem of Textuality in Ethnographic Audience Research, Chapter 3 Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World, Chapter 4 Where is Audience Ethnographer's Fieldwork?, Chapter 5 Audience letters and letter-writers: Constituting the Audience for R…
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction
Fielding the Study of Reception: Notes on "Negotiation" for Global Media Studies
As an emerging area of inquiry, "global media reception studies" has quietly amassed into a minor industry of scholarship. Of this body of work, ethnographic studies stand out in terms of their rigor and depth and their potential to engage theoretically our understanding of audiences' negotiation of meaning-a construct rooted in Hall's (1996) encoding/decoding model-which is important because the negotiation of meaning occupied a central place in…
Grounding Anotherness and Answerability through Allonational Ecoliterature Formations
Grounded in the Bakhtinian-based concepts of anotherness and answerability and the green critical theory of Robyn Eckersley, this essay argues that political organizations and communities have responded to the limitations of the contemporary nation state by developing a variety of ethically progressive allonational formations – alternatives to the nation states – reflecting Eckersley’s principle of affectedness. These are represented in a wide ra…
Introduction: Between Macondo and McWorld: communication and culture studies in Latin America
However, as new hybrid cultural configurations reflective of recent 'globalizing' processes such as liberalization, privatization, and democratization have surfaced (Garca Canclini, 1989), theorists have been forced to reconsider the relationship(s) between culture and power.For mass communication scholars, this has meant rethinking how the cultural industries serve to enable certain kinds of social control while also stimulating the expression o…
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