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."
cultural studies and technology, new media, globalization, and surveillance
Graduate Faculty in Communication research areas: cultural studies and technology, media studies, culture and globalization
Books
Wise, J.M. (2016). Surveillance and Film. NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Slack, J.D. & Wise, J.M. (2015) Culture and Technology: A Primer (2nd edition). NY: Peter Lang Publishers.
Wise, J.M. (2008). Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Slack, J.D. & Wise, J.M. (2005). Culture and Technology: A Primer. NY: Peter Lang Publishers. Fourth printing in 2008. Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Book Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association.
Grossberg, L., Wartella, E., Whitney, D.C., & Wise, J.M. (2005). MediaMaking: Mass Media and Popular Culture. 2nd edition. Sage Publications. (2015) Translated into Chinese by Nanjing Publishing House.
Wise, J.M. (1997). Exploring technology and social space. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Book Chapters
Wise, J.M. (2017). Towards a Minor Assemblage: An Introduction to the Clickable World. In Amber Davisson and Aaron Hess (eds.) Digital Rhetoric (Routledge).
Wise, J.M. (2017) “Assemblage.” In Jonathan Gray and Laurie Ouellette (eds) Keywords in Media Studies. NY: NYU Press.
Wise, J.M. (2015). “A Hole in the Hand: Assemblages of Attention and Mobile Screens.” In Jan Hadlaw, Andrew Herman, and Thom Swiss (Eds.) Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries. NY: Routledge.
Wise, J.M. (2013). “Stereo-Reality.” In John Armitage (Ed.) The Virilio Dictionary. Edinburgh University Press.
Wise, J.M. (2013) “Introduction: Ecstatic Assemblages of Visuality.” In J. Macgregor Wise and Hille Koskela (eds.) New Visualities, New Technologies: The New Ecstasy of Communication. Pp.1-5. Ashgate
Wise, J.M. (2012). “Attention and Assemblage in the Clickable World,” in Jeremy Packer and Steve Wiley (ed) Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Networks, and Mobility. Pp. 159-172. Routledge.
Wise, J.M. (2011). “Assemblage.” In Charles J. Stivale (Ed.) Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts (Second Edition). Pp. 91-102. Acumen.
Wise, J.M. (2009). “Globalization and Culture.” In G. Honor Fagan & Ronaldo Munck (eds.) Globalisation and Security: An Encyclopaedia. Pp. 100-118 Praeger.
Wise, J.M .(2006). “Cultural Studies and Rem Koolhaas.” In Clare Birchall & Gary Hall (eds.) New Adventures in Cultural Studies. Pp. 241-258. Edinburgh University Press.
Slack, J.D. & Wise, J.M. (2006) “Cultural Studies and Communication Technology” in Leah A. Lievrouw & Sonia M. Livingstone (Eds). The Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs (Updated Student Edition). Pp. 141-162. London: Sage. Translated as “Cultural Studies e tecnologie della comunicazione” in Leah A. Lievrouw & Sonia Livingstone (with Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Luciano Paccagnella, & Francesca Pasquali) (eds) Capire i New Media: Culture, Comunicazione, Innovazione Tecnologica e Istituzioni Sociali. Hoepli. 2007.
Wise, J.M. (2005) “Assemblage.” In Charles J. Stivale (ed.) Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts. Acumen.
Wise, J.M. (2005) “Technocultures: Introduction.” In Ackbar Abbas and John Nguyet Erni (Eds) Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishers.
Wise, J.M. (2003) “Community, Affect, and the Virtual: The Politics of Cyberspace” in Beth Kolko (Ed.) Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age. New York: Columbia University Press. PP. 112-133.
Wise, J.M. (2003) “Home: Territory and Identity” in J.D. Slack (Ed.) Animations [of Deleuze and Guattari]. New York: Peter Lang.
Slack, J.D. & Wise, J.M. (2002) “Cultural Studies and Technology” in Leah A. Lievrouw & Sonia M. Livingstone (Eds). The Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs. London: Sage.
Articles
WU, Qing, CHEN, Hong-bing, and Wise, J.M. (2017, August). Control and Autonomy: Analysis on Ivan Illich’s Critical Theory of Tools. Studies in Philosophy of Science and Technology, 34(4). [In Chinese]
WU, Qing; CHEN, Hong-bing; and Wise, J.M. (2017, March) The Types of Neo-Luddism’s Anti-Technology. Studies in Dialectics of Nature, 33(4). [In Chinese]
Wise, J.M. (2011). “The Politics of Care: A Commentary on Kamphof.” Foundations of Science. [Invited Commentary]
Wise, J.M. (2004). “‘An Immense and Unexpected Field of Action’: Webcams, Surveillance, and Everyday Life.” Cultural Studies (Special Issue on Everyday Life, edited by Michael Gardiner and Gregory J. Seigworth), 18(2/3): 423-441. Reprinted in Zoya Kocur (Ed.) (2011). Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology. New York: Wiley.
Wise, J.M. (2003). “Reading Hall reading Marx.” Cultural Studies, 17(2): 105-112.
Wise, J.M. (2002). “Mapping the culture of control: Seeing Through The Truman Show.” Television and New Media, 3(1): 29-47.
Wise, J.M. (2000). “Home: Territory and Identity.” Cultural Studies, 14 (2).295-310. Excerpt reprinted in Mark Taylor & Julieanna Preston (eds.) (2006). Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. Excerpt Reprinted in Jen Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, Setha Low, & Susan Saegert (eds.) (2014). The People, Place, and Space Reader. NY: Routledge.
Seigworth, G. & Wise, J.M. (2000). “Introduction: Deleuze and Guattari in Cultural Studies.” Cultural Studies 14 (2). 139-146.
Wise, J.M. (1998). “Intelligent agency.” Cultural Studies, 12 (3). 410-428. Reprinted in Leah A. Lievrouw and Sonia Livingstone (Eds). Sage Benchmarks in Communication: New Media. Sage Publications, 2009. Reprinted in Seth Giddings & Martin Lister (Eds). The New Media and Technocultures Reader. Routledge, 2011.
Wise, J.M. (1996). “Uusi, uljas verkkomaailma: Vapaudesta ja yhteisöllisyydestä Wired-Aikakauslehdessä [The Wired World: Communitarianism and Libertarianism in Wired magazine],” Trans. Esa Sirkkunen & Seija Ridell. Tiedotustutkimus, 4. Pp. 34-40. [A Finnish Journal of Mass Communication].
Works Edited
Wise, J.M. & Koskela, H. (Eds). (2013). New Visualities, New Technologies: The New Ecstasy of Communication. Ashgate.
Wise, J.M. (2005). “Techno-Cultures” Section Editor and Advisory Board Member. In Ackbar Abbas and John Nguyet Erni (Eds) Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology. Blackwell Publishers.
Seigworth, G. & Wise, J.M. (Guest Editors). (2000) Deleuze/Guattari in Cultural Studies. Cultural Studies (Special Issue) 14 (2).
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STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
CMN 590 | Reading and Conference |
CMN 592 | Research |
STC 593 | Applied Project |
CMN 593 | Applied Project |
CMN 599 | Thesis |
Fall 2021 | |
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NEW 102 | Global Transformations |
COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
STC 505 | Theories of Social Technology |
STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
STC 593 | Applied Project |
CMN 599 | Thesis |
Spring 2021 | |
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COM 424 | Television Studies & Criticism |
COM 494 | Special Topics |
MAS 590 | Reading and Conference |
STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
CMN 590 | Reading and Conference |
CMN 592 | Research |
CMN 593 | Applied Project |
STC 593 | Applied Project |
CMN 599 | Thesis |
Fall 2020 | |
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NEW 194 | Special Topics |
COM 429 | Semiotics/Visual Communication |
COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
STC 593 | Applied Project |
CMN 599 | Thesis |
Summer 2020 | |
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COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
Spring 2020 | |
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COM 455 | Surveillance & Popular Culture |
STC 540 | Critical/Cultural Approaches |
STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
CMN 590 | Reading and Conference |
CMN 593 | Applied Project |
STC 593 | Applied Project |
CMN 599 | Thesis |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 429 | Semiotics/Visual Communication |
COM 455 | Surveillance & Popular Culture |
COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
STC 593 | Applied Project |
STC 598 | Special Topics |
MAS 598 | Special Topics |
CMN 598 | Special Topics |
CMN 599 | Thesis |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 424 | Television Studies & Criticism |
CMN 590 | Reading and Conference |
STC 590 | Reading and Conference |
STC 593 | Applied Project |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 429 | Semiotics/Visual Communication |
COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
STC 505 | Theories of Social Technology |
CMN 590 | Reading and Conference |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 493 | Honors Thesis |
STC 540 | Critical/Cultural Approaches |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
COM 492 | Honors Directed Study |
STC 505 | Theories of Social Technology |
CMN 590 | Reading and Conference |