Peter K. Fallon

Peter K Fallon, Ph.D. is a Professor of Media Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago. A student of the late Neil Postman in the Doctoral Program in Media Ecology at New York University, he is the author of three award-winning books, "Why the Irish Speak English" (Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book, 2007), "The Metaphysics of Media" (Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 2010) and "Propaganda 2.1: Understanding Propaganda in the Digital Age" (Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 2024). His third book, "Cultural Defiance, Cultural Deviance," was published in 2013. He also contributed a chapter (“Propaganda as Psychic Violence”) to the 2016 book "Jacques Ellul on Violence, Resistance, and War."

His article “Internet est-il un progress?” was published in the Spring 2014 edition of l’Ecologiste (n°42 printemps 2014). Another article, “Sacrament and Anti-sacrament: On the Media Criticism of Jacques Ellul and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,” appears in Second Nature, an “online journal for critical thinking about technology and new media in light of the Christian tradition.” His fourth book, "Propaganda 2.1: Understanding Propaganda in the Digital Age" was published in September 2022 by Cascade Press.

Fallon has done volunteer work with the Appalachian poor (Kermit, West Virginia, 1999-2003), was active in the Occupy movement (Occupy Chicago) between 2011 and 2012, supports the Catholic peace movement (Pax Christi), and is a lay Associate of the Order of Preachers (Sinsinawa Dominicans).