David Parry is an assistant professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas.

His research centers around exploring how media transforms culture, in particular understanding the cultural changes produced by the evolution of the digital network. Recently his work has focused on examining the relationship between democracy, protests, governments, publics and emerging media.

He is one of the core faculty members of the Emerging Media and Communications program at UT Dallas, a non traditional undergraduate and graduate media studies program focusing exclusively on social and digital media.