John Durham Peters (born 1958) is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University.
A media historian and social theorist, he has authored a number of noted scholarly works.
His most recent book, coauthored with the late Kenneth Cmiel, Promiscuous Knowledge offers a genealogy of the information age from its earliest origins, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into the present moment.
Peters has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Leverhulme Trust, among others.
In chapter one of Speaking Into the Air, Peters (1999) compares two forms of communication: dialogue and dissemination.