Publications
Books
Murphy, P. (2017). The Media Commons: Globalization and Environmental Discourses. Champaign: University of Illinois Press (Winner: International Communication Association, Global Communication and Social Change Division’s Best Book Award, 2018)
Blankson, I. & Murphy, P. (Eds.) (2007). Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformation in Emerging Democracies. Albany: SUNY Press
Murphy, P. & Kraidy, M. (Eds.) (2003). Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives. London: Routledge
Guest Editor of Special Issue Journals
Murphy, P. (Guest Editor) (2015). Media, human rights and social justice, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture 13(2)
Murphy, P. & Rodriguez, C. (Guest Editors) (2006). Communication and culture in Latin America, Global Media and Communication, 2(3)
Murphy, P. (Guest Editor) (2002, Fall). Global Media Journal, electronic publication, http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/index.htm
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
Murphy, P. (2021). Speaking for the youth, speaking for the planet: Greta Thunberg and the representational politics of eco-celebrity, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2021.1913493
Tinga, T., Murphy, P. & Sessou, E. S. (2020). ICTs, environmental activism and community mobilization in sub-Saharan Africa. In J. Diaz-Pont, P. Maeseele, A. E. Sjolander, M. Mishra & K. Foxwell-Norton (eds.), The local and the digital in environmental communication. IAMCR/Palgrave
Murphy, P. & Tinga, T. M. (2019). Communication for development and social change and the challenge of climate change. International Journal of Communication 13, 1-18
Murphy, P. (2018). Lessons from the zombie apocalypse in global popular culture: An environmental discourse approach to the walking dead. Environmental Communication, 12(1), 44-57
Shaw, A., Sender, K. & Murphy, P. (2018). Critical audience studies. In Oxford research encyclopedia of communication and critical cultural studies. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.619
Murphy, P. & Rodríguez, C. (2018). Voices in the garden: Designing social change at the intersection of green radicalism and participatory media. In B. Takahashi & S. Rosenthal (Eds.), Environmental communication among minority populations (pp. 38-56). London & New York: Routledge
Murphy, P. (2015). Voice, visibility, and recognition: Vertical and horizontal trajectories of human rights and social justice media, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture. 13(2), 101-104
Murphy, P. (2013). The abbreviated field experience in audience ethnography. In A. N. Valdivia (Gen. Ed.) & R. Parameswaran (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of media studies. Vol. 3: Audience and interpretation in media studies (pp. 105-122). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Murphy, P. (2013). Resuscitating ‘resistance’ in the age of global climate change: Media, culture and environmental discourse in Latin America. In M. Kraidy (Ed.), Orders and borders: Communication and power in the global era (pp. 150-165). London: Routledge
Murphy, P. (2011). Putting the Earth into global media studies, Communication Theory, 21, 217-238
Murphy, P. (2011). Locating media ethnography. In V. Nightingale (Ed.). Handbook of media audiences (pp. 380-401). New York: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Limited
Murphy, P. (2008). Writing media culture: Representation and experience in media ethnography. Communication, Culture & Critique, 1, 267-285
Kraidy, M. & Murphy, P. (2008). Shifting Geertz: Towards a theory of translocalism in global communication studies. Communication Theory, 18, 335-355
Murphy, P. & Rodriguez, C. (2006). Between Macondo and McWorld: Communication and culture studies in Latin America, Global Media and Communication, 2(3), 267-277
Murphy, P. (2005). Fielding the study of reception: Notes on “negotiation” for global media studies,Popular Communication, 3(3), 167-180
Murphy, P. & Kraidy, M. (2003). International communication, ethnography, and the challenge of globalization, Communication Theory, 13(3): 304-323
Murphy, P. (2002). The anthropologist's son (living and learning the field), Qualitative Inquiry, 8(3), 246-261
Murphy, P. (1999). Media cultural studies' uncomfortable embrace of ethnography, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 23(3), 205-221
Murphy, P. (1999). Doing audience ethnography: A narrative account of establishing ethnographic identity and locating interpretive communities in field work, Qualitative Inquiry, 5(4), 479-502
Murphy, P. (1997). Contrasting perspectives: Cultural studies in Latin America and the U.S., a conversation with Néstor García Canclini, Cultural Studies, 11(1), 78-88
Rodríguez, C. & Murphy, P. (1997). The study of communication and culture in Latin America: From laggards and the oppressed to resistance and hybrid cultures, The Journal of International Communication, 4(2), 24-45
Murphy, P. (1995). Television and cultural politics in Mexico: Some notes on Televisa, the state and transnational culture, Howard Journal of Communications, VI (4), 250-261
Translations
Martín-Barbero, J. (2006). A Latin American perspective on communication/cultural mediation. Global Media and Communication, 2(3), 279-298 (Trans. by E. C. Montaña, P. D. Murphy & C. Rodríguez)
Alfaro, R. M. (2006). Citizens and media cultures: Hidden behind democratic formality, Global Media and Communication, 2(3), 299-313 (Trans. by E. C. Montaña, P. D. Murphy & C. Rodríguez)