Waddick Doyle presented a paper entitled "'The Peculiar Unhappiness of that Business': puissance perdue, puissance retrouvée" at the conference De Benjamin Franklin à nos jours: la presse a-t-elle perdu sa puissance? sponsored by the Fondation Singer-Polignac and by the Franklin Committee, in commemoration of the tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth. Other contributors included Patrick Lelay of TF1, Alexandre Adler of Le Courrier International, Ellen Cohen, Editor of the Franklin Papers at Yale University, Hamid Barrada of Jeune Afrique, and Janine di Giovanni of The Times.

Waddick Doyle is the founder and chair of the Department of International Communications, and founder and director of the Masters in Global Communications program at AUP. Doyle teaches courses in Media Globalization, Contemporary World Television, Media Law, Policy and Ethics. He has held positions at universities in Italy, France and Australia.

Doyle’s background is in both the comparative philosophy of meaning (socio-semiotics) and the political economy of mass communications. His work covers the deeper cultural effects linked to transformations of media systems, and the development of a globalized brand media culture. He has published on what he calls the sacralisation of brands and reality television, and on media and belief. Doyle is presently writing a book about the rise to power of the Italian media and advertising tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy.

Doyle is active in the major international communication associations, the ICA and IMCRA. He is also a member of the board of the Centre pour les études des communications internationales (CECI) in Paris and the Global Media Research Center at the University of Southern Illinois.

Book

Winner takes All: Berlusconi, Television and Politics in Italy (Forthcoming).

Book Chapters

"French Television" and "Canal Plus" in ‘Contemporary World’ Television, Edited by Sinclair, John, University of California Press (and BFI) 2004.

"Della naturalizazione alla sacralizzazione. storia dell approcci inglesi all’analisi della publicità" in Semprini, Andrea Lo Sguardo Semiotico Franco Angeli Milano 2003.

"Towards a Poetics of Observation" in Lectures d’une oeuvre : The Remains of the Dayde Kazuo Ishiguro edited by François Gallix published by Editions du temps, Paris 1999.

"Being an Other to Oneself: First Person Narration in Kasuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day in L'Altérité dans la littérature et la culture anglophone edited by Labbé, Evelyne; Presses de l'Université du Maine, Le Mans 1993.

Referred journal articles

Southern Review: special edition on "Media and Belief" edited by Waddick Doyle and Mary Griffiths (Forthcoming: Spring 2006).

"The Money! Or The Box! Consumerism, Television and Americanisation in 1960’s Australia". In Cultures of the Commonwealth No.6 pp.21-35 Spring 2000.

"The Space between Identity and Otherness" in Commonwealth No 4. pp.110-119 Spring 1997.

Shabdabrahma: Infinity and Perfection in a Word in VS Versus, Journal of Semiotics special edition: The Quest for Perfect Languages edited by Roberto Pellerey and Umberto Eco. 1992.

"Grim Reapings: an analysis of AIDS television advertising", in Eyeline, No.2., July 1988.

"Why Dallas was able to conquer Italy", in Media Information Australia, No.41, February 1987.