Patrick R. Parsons

Biography

Patrick Parsons teaches and conducts research in the general areas of media technology and social change, and media ethics and responsibility. His particular research interests include cable television history and operations, emerging media technologies and society, media technology and ethics and normative philosophy. He is the co-author of ""The Cable and Satellite Television Industry."" He is also the author of ""Cable Television and the First Amendment"" and co-editor of ""The Journalist's Moral Compass."" His scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Communication, Journalism Quarterly, the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and the Journal of Advertising. His 2008 book, ""Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television,"" garnered the PIcard Award for Top Research Project in the Media Management and Economics Division from the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. The book has been repeatedly hailed as the definitive history of cable television and an extraordinary achievement. He was named as the inaugural holder of the Don Davis Professorship in Ethics in 2005.

Research Interest

Media Ethics, Ethics Cable Television, Emerging Media Technologies