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Sheila C. Murphy is an assistant professor in Digital Media Studies. She received her B.A. from the University of Rochester in Art History while also working extensively in academic computing, and her PhD from UC-Irvine. Her dissertation, “Lurking and Looking: Media Technologies and Cultural Convergences of Spectatorship, Voyeurism, and Surveillance,” theorizes the emergence of the “lurker,” the passive yet interactive spectatorial user-position necessitated by contemporary audiovisual media. Her essays on this topic have appeared in the anthology Technologies of Moving Images: From Edison to the Webcam and Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics. At Irvine, she taught extensively in the Program in Film Studies and the Humanities Core Course. She also oversaw the UCI Film and Video Center screening program and she has served on the Society for Cinema Studies Information Technology committee. Her other research interests include identity and the Internet, video game form and narrative, and the global politics of wireless telecommunications. back |
