Bill D. Herman, Ph.D.

I teach in the Film & Media Department of Hunter College in New York City. Broadly speaking, my research and teaching fall at the intersection of communication technologies, policy, politics, and culture.

In May of 2009, I earned a Ph.D. in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

You are welcome to download my dissertation on the politics of copyright (large pdf), which is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. My book, in contract with Cambridge University Press, will cover very similar ground — but be updated, revised, and (I hope) much more readable. If you'd like a shorter read, here's a draft of a journal article.

Along with three other Penn alumni, I blog at ShoutingLoudly, which is also my Twitter handle.

For more about my research, teaching, and activism, please see my curriculum vitae (pdf). If any of this arouses your interest, please email me: