Peter Nagy

Throughout my academic career, I have studied people’s evolving relationship with technologies, and what this relationship means for human identity and agency. In my Ph.D. thesis, I focused on virtual worlds and environments; later I turned to communication and media theories to conceptualize human-machine communication through the lens of affordances. At Arizona State University, I applied the lessons I learned during my graduate and former postdoctoral scholarship years to cross-disciplinary informal learning and science and engineering ethics projects by integrating human-machine communication theories with socio-technical storytelling techniques. 

I draw theories from a variety of disciplines including cognitive psychology, sociology, communication and media studies, consumer culture theory (CCT), and science and technology studies (STS). I am trained in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research designs. 

Service is also a critical part of my identity. I am a founding editorial board member of the open-access journal, Human-Machine Communication and I have served as a reviewer for a wide range of journals including the International Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, and Social Media + Society. In addition, I am a member of the International Communication Association (ICA) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).