Stephen Wiley
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1999

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Steve Wiley studies the role played by technology in constituting social spaces, especially in contexts of accelerated globalization. His past research examined the ways in which globalization transformed national media and national political culture in Chile, one of the most economically open media formations in the world. His current research focuses on technology and social space in the context of regional development. With colleagues at the Universidad de Concepción in the Bío Bío region of southern Chile, he is developing an interdisciplinary analysis of the region's insertion into national and transnational networks and flows. The project examines the regional landscape of communication and transportation, the spatial practices people use to navigate that landscape, and mental maps that they use to understand and act on their milieu.

Dr. Wiley received his B.A. (with high honors) from Swarthmore College in 1986 and was awarded the Bramson Prize by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.  He was a Fulbright International Scholar at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Latin American Social Science Faculty, FLACSO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1987.  He was an independent documentary videographer in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile from 1986 to 1988, where he conducted interviews and recorded the concerts of Latin American Canto Nuevo musicians such as Schwenke & Nilo, Eduardo Peralta, Inti-Illimani, and Quilapayún.

In 1994, Dr. Wiley completed a Masters Degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.  He conducted field research on communication infrastructure and policy in Chile in the 1990s and earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1999. As a faculty member at NC State, he has been active in the Science, Technology & Society Program and in the development of international linkages between NC State and other universities. In 2008, he was selected as a Fulbright Scholar and invited to serve as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Universidad de Concepción in Concepción, Chile.

Dr. Wiley's publications include "Rethinking nationality in the context of globalization" (Communication Theory, 2004), "Spatial materialism: Grossberg's Deleuzean cultural studies" (Cultural Studies, 2005), and "Assembled agency: Media and hegemony in the Chilean transition to civilian rule" (Media, Culture & Society, 2006).