Summary
David Parry is an Associate Professor of Digital Media and Chair of Communication at Saint Joseph’s University with over a decade of academic leadership exploring how the shift from analog to networked media reshapes social relations. His research focuses on the internet’s implications for democracy, citizenship, governance, and the evolving tradeoffs between privacy and publicity as enacted by governments, corporations, and communities. A dedicated open-access advocate, he frames knowledge access as a lever for social justice and integrates that ethic into teaching and scholarship. With prior faculty experience at UT Dallas and a Ph.D. in English from SUNY Albany, he combines humanities rigor with media theory to interrogate contemporary technological architectures. Colleagues describe him as a scholar-administrator who bridges critical theory and policy-relevant inquiry, often foregrounding institutional and infrastructural forces that subtly reconfigure civic life.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Alamogordo High School
Waseda University
AB, East Asian Studies, AB, East Asian Studies at The University of Chicago
Ph.D., English, Ph.D., English at University at Albany, SUNY