David Parry

David Parry is an assistant professor of Emergent Media and Communications. He studies how the transformation from an analog to a digital archive changes knowledge production and dissemination.

By focusing on technology and language as a technology, he theorizes negotiations of the act of reading from print culture to the internet.

Primarily he is concerned with how a digital literacy and digital public develops around a networked archive that differs from, although is still informed by, prior analog structures.

After receiving a PhD in English from the University at Albany in 2007, he joined the UT Dallas faculty. He has taught classes in philosophy, literature, and new media.

Currently he teaches courses on writing in the digital era, and the digital archive. His presentations and published writing include works on digital games, web technologies, digital literacy, and the emerging networked archive.

David writes for several online resources including his own blog, academhack.org, and has been featured in The Chronicle for his work on microblogging as pedagogical practice. He also is regularly invited by organizations to speak about digital literacy and the changing cultural landscape.