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Greg Wise

Greg Wise

Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College

Greg.Wise@asu.edu

602-543-6646

School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Arizona State University, West campus
PO Box 37100
Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, New College

Biography

Greg Wise has a double bachelor's degree in communications and English from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After earning his master's and doctoral degrees in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wise served on the faculty at Clemson University for four years before coming to Arizona State University's West campus in 1999.

Wise's research interests focus on popular culture, technology and culture, new media, globalization, and surveillance. His publications include "Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide," published by Blackwell; a book co-edited with Hille Koskela (University of Finland) on "New Visualities" published by Ashgate; a second edition of his co-authored (with Jennifer Daryl Slack) "Culture and Technology: A Primer" with Peter Lang in 2015; and a new book about representations of surveillance in popular films, "Surveillance and Film," in 2016 with Bloomsbury Academic.

"Culture and Technology: A Primer" won the book award in 2006 from the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association."Surveillance and Film" won the book award in 2018 from the Surveillance Studies Network.

His extensive involvement with academic journals includes serving as executive editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies from 2010 to 2012. Wise also is a member of the editorial boards of Communication Review and Communication Theory.

Wise is also author of "Exploring Technology and Social Space" (1997), co-author of "Culture and Technology: A Primer" (2005), and co-author of the second edition of "MediaMaking" (2005), as well as a number of journal articles and book chapters including Cultural Studies and Communication Technology in "The Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs;" Cultural Studies and Rem Koolhaas's Project on the City in "New Adventures in Cultural Studies;" and Attention and Assemblage in "Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Networks, and Mobility."

Greg Wise has a double bachelor's degree in communications and English from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After earning his master's and doctoral degrees in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wise served on the faculty at Clemson University for four years before coming to Arizona State University's West campus in 1999.

Wise's research interests focus on popular culture, technology and culture, new media, globalization, and surveillance. His publications include "Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide," published by Blackwell; a book co-edited with Hille Koskela (University of Finland) on "New Visualities" published by Ashgate; a second edition of his co-authored (with Jennifer Daryl Slack) "Culture and Technology: A Primer" with Peter Lang in 2015; and a new book about representations of surveillance in popular films, "Surveillance and Film," in 2016 with Bloomsbury Academic.

"Culture and Technology: A Primer" won the book award in 2006 from the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association."Surveillance and Film" won the book award in 2018 from the Surveillance Studies Network.

His extensive involvement with academic journals includes serving as executive editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies from 2010 to 2012. Wise also is a member of the editorial boards of Communication Review and Communication Theory.

Wise is also author of "Exploring Technology and Social Space" (1997), co-author of "Culture and Technology: A Primer" (2005), and co-author of the second edition of "MediaMaking" (2005), as well as a number of journal articles and book chapters including Cultural Studies and Communication Technology in "The Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs;" Cultural Studies and Rem Koolhaas's Project on the City in "New Adventures in Cultural Studies;" and Attention and Assemblage in "Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Networks, and Mobility."

Education

  • PhD, Speech Communication, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
  • MA, Speech Communication, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
  • BA, Communications and English, Trinity University