• Culture and Communication, Asian Cities, Consumption, Ethnography

• Economies of Fascination: Las Vegas, Dubai, Macau (collaboration with Mark Gottdiener and Heiko Schmid)

• Transnational Urban Space and Post-Socialist Consumption in Macau (supported by grants from UM Research Committee and Urban Communication Foundation, USA)

Journal Articles:

• T. Simpson (2008) “Macao, Capital of the Twenty-First Century?” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26: 1053-1079. (With photographs by Adam Lampton).

• T. Simpson (2008) “The Proximal Other: Globalization and the Itinerant Subject of Intercultural Communication Research.” International and Intercultural Communication Annual 31.

• T. Simpson (2008), “The Commercialization of Macau’s Cafes.” Ethnography 9(2): pp. 225 - 262.

• T. Simpson (2001) ‘Themed Environments, Suburbs, and the Middle Class in Bangkok,” Etnofoor 14(1), pp. 7-30. (Holland).

• M. Neumann and T. Simpson (2001) “Notes from the Underground: Pirate Recording and Popular Music,” Societe et Consommation 1, pp. 39-46.

• T. Simpson (2000) “Streets, Sidewalks, Stores, and Stories: Narrative and the Uses of Urban Space,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 29(6): 682-716.

• T. Simpson (1999) “Recycling Urban Spaces,” Western Journal of Communication 63: 310-328.

• M. Neumann and T. Simpson (1997) “Smuggled Sound: Bootleg Recording and the Pursuit of Popular Memory,” Symbolic Interaction 20: 319-342.

• T. Simpson (1995) “Communication, Conflict, and Community in an Urban Industrial Ruin,” Communication Research 22: 700-719.

Book Chapters:

• T. Simpson (forthcoming) “Lazarus, the Dead Mall, and the Demise of the City Center,” Urban Communication Reader II, Ed. H. Jassem, S. Drucker, G. Burd (Hampton Press).

• Wu M. and T. Simpson (2007) “Media and Culture,” Mass Communication (Series on Western Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences), Ed. Shuming Lu and Junhao Hong, Beijing: China Remnin University Press: 84 – 132. (in Chinese).
• T. Simpson (1996) “Constructions of Self and Other in the Experience of Rap Music,” Constructing the Self in a Mediated World ed. Debra Grodin and Thomas R. Lindlof, Sage: 107-123.
  

Technical Report:

• T. Simpson (2008) Transnational Urban Space and Post-Socialist Consumption in Macao, Urban Communication Foundation, USA.

Reviews:

• T. Simpson (2008) Review of: New Television, Globalisation, and the East Asian Cultural Imagination, by M. Keane, A.Y.H. Fung, and A. Moran (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007), Chinese Cross-Currents.

• Chan S. H. and T. Simpson (2005) “Multiple Coexisting Bottom Lines,” Euro-Asia Journal of Management 15(2): 125-131.

• T. Simpson (1992) Review of: Living in the Rock n Roll Mystery: Reading Context, Self, and Others as Clues, by H.L. Goodall (Southern Illinois University Press), Journal of Communication Studies 10.

• J. R. Bennett and T. Simpson (1991), Review of: The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance, by S. Shriffin, Free Speech Yearbook 29.