Professor Loy Singleton Loy A. Singleton Professional Profile Loy Singleton is Chair of the Telecommunication and Film Department, College of Communication, the University of Alabama. His teaching and research interests include electronic media history, law and policy, the impact of new telecommunication technologies on traditional media, and related communication theory.
Recent research includes a survey of the development of the world-wide web in Alabama.
Singleton holds a masters degree in journalism and a doctorate in mass communication research from the University of Texas at Austin. He taught ten years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the Alabama faculty in 1989.