国际知名学者，伦敦大学金匠学院戴维·莫利教授深耕媒介与传播领域四十余年，其个人学术研究脉络也可成为媒介与传播研究议题和范式转迁的重要参照：即四十年来科技、政治、文化以及全球化过程与媒介和传播研究之间的互动关系。莫利教授以贯穿始终的批判立场、跨学科的研究活力，超越狭隘的“以媒体研究为中心”的范式，对当下媒介与传播研究中的物质性、流动性、虚实空间接合、具身等问题予以回答，并始终保持问题思考的历史主义和语境化。莫利教授认为，新媒介技术并不会消除差异和不平等，“新”的物质地理图谱标识出虚拟和现实交流的特权，因此需进一步讨论虚拟和现实的流动性，也要把被忽视的交通等物质基础设施的研究纳入当代传播研究和全球化理论中，因此传播地理学的视角需要得到重视。

International renowned scholars, professor David Morley in Goldsmiths, University of London has been deeply engaged in the media and communication field for more than 40 years. His personal academic research context can also become an important reference for media and communication research issues and their paradigm transfer: which is, the interaction between technology, politics, culture, and globalization process and media and communication research over the past four decades. With his continuous critical position and interdisciplinary research vitality, Professor Morley transcends the narrow “media research-centered” paradigm, answers the questions of materiality, mobility, the connection between virtual and real space, as well as the embodiment, and also maintains the historicism and contextualization of problem thinking. Professor Morley believes instead of eliminating differences and inequality with the help of the new media technology, the “new” material geographical map will identify the privilege of virtual and real communication, so we need to not only further discuss the mobility of virtual and real, but also to put the neglected transportation and other material infrastructure research into the contemporary communication research and globalization theory, therefore, the perspective of communication geography needs to be valued.