FRED TURNER
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(last updated January 25, 2007)
Department of Communication
Building 120
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2050
Phone: 650-723-0706
E-mail: fturner@stanford.edu
URL: http://fredturner.stanford.edu
EDUCATION
University of California, San Diego 2002
Ph.D. in Communication.
Columbia University 1985
M.A. in English and American Literature.
Brown University 1984
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, in English and American Literature.
Current Research Areas: Media, technology and cultural change; cultural history of digital
media; the politics of information; science and technology studies.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Stanford University 2003-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication.
Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Communication, 2004-Present.
Director, Co-Terminal Master's Degree Program in Media Studies, Department of
Communication, 2003-2004.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1990-2003
Sloan School of Management:
Lecturer in Communication, 1999-2002.
Visiting Instructor in Communication, 1990-1999.
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Comparative Media Studies Program:
Master's Thesis advisor, 2001-2003.
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures:
Research Affiliate, 1994-1996.
Lecturer, 1990-1994
Harvard University 1989-1999
John F. Kennedy School of Government:
Chair, Communication Department, Summer, 1996.
Instructor, 1989-2000.
Division of Continuing Education:
Instructor, 1989-1996.
Boston University 1995-1996
Lecturer, College of Communication, Department of Film and Television.
Northeastern University 1987-1992
Instructor, Department of English and English Language Center.
Journalism:
Freelance Journalist 1986-1998
Wrote news stories, features, and reviews for local and national newspapers and
magazines, including The Progressive, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and The
Boston Phoenix.
Pacific News Service 1989
Contributing editor. Wrote news and feature stories for worldwide distribution.
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BOOKS
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital
Utopianism, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War In American Memory, Anchor/Doubleday, 1996.
Revised Second Edition: Echoes of Combat: Trauma, Memory and The Vietnam War, University
of Minnesota Press, 2001.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Turner, Fred. "Romantic Automatism: John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and the Meaning of
Automation in Cold War America." Under review.
Turner, Fred. "Why Study New Games." Games and Culture, Vol. 1, No.1 (January, 2006),
pp. 107-110.
Turner, Fred. "Actor-Networking the News." Social Epistemology, Vol.19, No.4 (October-
December, 2005), pp. 321-324.
Turner, Fred. "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins
of Virtual Community." Technology and Culture, Vol.46, No.3 (July, 2005), pp. 485-512.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Turner, Fred. "Buckminster Fuller: A Technocrat for the Counterculture," in Hsiao-Yun Chu and Roberto
Trujillo, eds., New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller, Stanford University Press, in press.
Turner, Fred. "How Digital Media Found Utopian Ideology: Lessons from the First Hackers'
Conference," in David Silver and Adrienne Massanari, eds., Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current
Terrains, Future Directions, New York University Press, 2006.
Turner, Fred. "This is for Fighting, This is for Fun: Camerawork and Gunplay in Reality
Based Crime Shows," in Murray Pomerance and John Sakeris, eds. Bang, Bang, Shoot,
Shoot!: Essays on Guns and Popular Culture, Simon & Schuster, 1999 (New York and
Toronto).
Reprinted in Gail Dines, ed., Gender, Race and Class in Media (Sage, 2002).
Reprinted in Murray Pomerance and John Sakeris, eds., Popping Culture (Boston:
Pearson Education, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006).
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ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Turner, Fred. "Cyberspace as the New Frontier?: Mapping the Shifting Boundaries of the
Network Society." Red Rock Eater News Service , ed. Philip E.
Agre. June 6, 1999.
Translated and reprinted in Spain as "El ciberespacio: ¿una nueva frontera?" by
en.red.ando
(February, 2000) and as "¿Es El Ciberspacio La Nueva Frontera?" by Rebelión
(January, 2003).
BOOK REVIEWS
Turner, Fred. Review of Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, ed., Code: Collaborative Ownership and the
Digital Economy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005). Technology and Culture, Vol. 47, No.3 (July,
2006), pp.685-686.
Turner, Fred. Review of Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavallaro, Prefiguring
Cyberculture: An Intellectual History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002) in Space and Culture,
Vol. 7 No. 1 (February, 2004), pp.124-127.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Kreiss, Daniel, and Fred Turner. "Future Shock." International Encyclopedia of the Social
Sciences, Second Edition (Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale, in press).
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS & AWARDS
Outstanding Paper Award for "Where The Counterculture Met the New Economy," Communication and
Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association, 2006. Awarded to a
single, outstanding paper or book chapter in the social study of communication and information
technology published in the previous two calendar years.
Scheduled Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California. One
year fellowship at the Center. Made eligible July, 2005. In residence 2007-2008.
Winner, National Student Essay Contest, for "Cyberspace as the New Frontier?" Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility, 2001.
Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, 2001.
Nominated for a Faculty Appreciation Award by students of the Sloan School of Management, MIT, for
excellence in teaching, 2000.
Pre-doctoral Humanities Fellowship, University of California, San Diego. Awarded on the basis of
academic achievement and scholarly potential in a university-wide competition. The award
covered full tuition, fees, and a stipend annually for four years, 1996-2000.
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The Bennett Cerf Prize, for the best piece of prose, poetry or drama by a student in the Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, 1985.
Full Fellowship and Stipend, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, 1984-1985.
The Ratcliffe Hicks Premium, for the senior with the highest standing in the English
Department at Brown University, 1984.
The Preston Gurney Literary Prize, for the best essay of 5,000 words on a topic in English and American
Literature by an undergraduate at Brown University, 1984.
The Kim Ann Arstark Prize in Poetry, for the best group of poems submitted by an undergraduate at
Brown University, 1983 and 1984.
GRANTS
Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education Undergraduate Research Programs Fund, Stanford
University. Awarded $4,500 to support faculty/student mentoring early in the major, 2006-2007.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stanford University Humanities Research Center Graduate Workshop
Program. Awarded $7,500 as co-organizer of the Critical Studies in New Media Workshop, 2006-
2007.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Stanford University Humanities Research Center Graduate Workshop
Program. Awarded $8950 as co-organizer of the Critical Studies in New Media Workshop, 2005-
2006.
Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education Undergraduate Research Programs Fund, Stanford
University. Awarded $4,150 to support faculty/student mentoring early in the major, 2005-2006.
Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education Mentoring Fund, Stanford University. Awarded $500 to
support ongoing peer advising program, 2005.
Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education Undergraduate Research Programs Fund, Stanford
University. Awarded $500 to support faculty/student mentoring early in the major, 2005.
Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education Mentoring Fund, Stanford University. Awarded $3060 for
creation of a peer advising program, 2004.
Dean's Social Science Research Travel Fund, University of California, San Diego, 1998 and 2001.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Fee scholarship for Ryerson Polytechnic University's "Film,
Television, Guns" conference, 1998.
Departmental Research Grants, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego,
1997 and 2000.
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INVITED LECTURES & SEMINARS
Science, Technology, Medicine and Society Speaker Series, University of Michigan. Co-sponsored by
the Program in American Culture and the Department of Communication Studies. "From Counterculture
to Cyberculture." January 22, 2007.
Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University Law School. "From Counterculture to
Cyberculture." December 1, 2006.
Harvard University Free Culture Project, Harvard University. Panelist. "Digital Disobedience,
Cyberactivism and Culture Jamming," with Ji Lee, J. Salvatore Testa, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty.
December 1, 2006.
BAY-CHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California.
"From Counterculture to Cyberculture." November 14, 2006.
Stanford University. "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog. A
public symposium featuring Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Howard Rheingold and Fred Turner."
Sponsored by the Stanford University Libraries, Stanford University's Department of Communication,
and Stanford University's Program in American Studies. November 9, 2006.
Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, California. "From Counterculture to Cyberculture." October 30, 2006.
"History and Theory of Infrastructure: Lessons for New Scientific Cyberinfrastructures." A National
Science Foundation Invitational Workshop, School of Information, University of Michigan. September
28 October 1, 2006.
Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa, Colloquium. "From Counterculture to
Cyberculture." September 12, 2006.
"The Whole Earth, Parts Thereof," Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of California, Davis. "From
Counterculture to Cyberculture: How the Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us Virtual Community." May
8, 2006.
"Games@IULM" conference, Università IULM, Milan, Italy. Address by video, May 3, 2006.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Science Foundation, "Future Internet Design
Workshop," San Francisco, California. March 17, 2006.
History and Philosophy of Science Seminar Series, co-Sponsored by the Department of Art History and
Communication, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: How the
Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us Virtual Community." January 26, 2006.
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Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Colloquium Series. "From
Counterculture to Cyberculture: Revisiting the WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community."
November 28, 2005.
"Crowds" Project Conference, Humanities Laboratory, Stanford University. "From Masses to
Technotribes." November 6, 2005.
Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice/Tenth Conference on Directions and Implications
of Advanced Computing, Stanford University. "The Countercultural Origins of Virtual Community."
May 20, 2005.
Technology and Social Behavior Lecture Series, Northwestern University. "How Counterculture
Became Cyberculture: Revisiting the WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community." April 29, 2005.
The Symbolic Systems Forum, Stanford University. "From Counterculture to Cyberculture." April 21,
2005.
The Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (ScanCor), Stanford University, Colloquium.
"Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: Revisiting the WELL and the Origins of Virtual
Community." December 6, 2004.
Social Science Research Council invitation-only conference, Digital Cultural Institutions and the Future
of Access: Social, Legal and Technical Challenges. Panelist, "New Cultural Infrastructure: Law,
Technology, and Cultural Practice." Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara
University, Santa Clara, California. October 22-23, 2004.
Distinguished Lecture Series, School of Information Management and Systems, University of
California, Berkeley. Lecture: "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: How the Whole Earth Catalog
Brought Us `Virtual Community.'" October 6, 2004.
Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California. Lecture:
"Virtual Community as Network Ideology." April 13, 2004.
Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, California. The Future of Cooperation: Expert Colloquium,
Technology Horizons Program. Expert panelist. March 10, 2004.
Center for Work, Technology and Organization, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering,
Stanford University, Colloquium. "How Cultural Entrepreneurs Make Work Mean: The Case of the First
Hackers Conference." February 2, 2004.
Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains Future Directions, an invitation-only conference
sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, University of Washington.
Presented "Exploring the Networks Behind Digital Discourse." May 9, 2003.
Stanford University. Panelist, "War, Privacy and the Good Citizen: A Public Symposium" May 22,
2003.
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Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT. Lecture: "Sociological Approaches to Discourse Analysis."
October 22, 2001.
Association of Internet Researchers, Minneapolis, MN. Invited roundtable discussant, "The Future of
Critical Internet Studies." October 13, 2001.
Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT, Colloquium. "The Whole Earth Network and the Ideology
of the Electronic Frontier." September 27, 2001.
Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, California. Disruptive Innovations Expert Workshop. Expert
panelist, "Past Disruptive Innovation: Historical Lessons and Implications." January 24, 2001.
Program in Critical and Cultural Studies of Information Technology, State University of New York at
Buffalo, December 8, 2000. Public lecture: "Cyberspace as the New Frontier?: Mapping and Managing
the Rise of the `Network Society'." Seminar for faculty and graduate students: "Why Work for Free?
The Internet and the Problem of `Free Labor'."
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Public Lecture: "The Vietnam War in
American Memory," April 24, 1996.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(All Single-Authored and Double-Blind Refereed)
"Buckminster Fuller and the Rise of Bohemian Technocracy," American Studies Association, Oakland,
California. October 14, 2006.
"Romantic Automatism: Art and Automation in Cold War America," Society for the History of
Technology, Las Vegas, Nevada. October 13, 2006.
"Cybernetic Art Worlds of the 1960s" and "Comprehensive Design and the Technocratic
Counterculture," Society for Social Studies of Science, Pasadena, California, October 20 and October
23, 2005.
"Where Cybernetics Met the Counterculture: The US Company," Refresh! The First International
Conference on the Histories of Media, Art and Technology, Banff New Media Institute, Banff Centre,
Banff, Canada. September 29, 2005.
"Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy," American Sociological Association, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. August 15, 2005.
"Digital Journalism and the Anxious Citizen," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Atlanta, Georgia.
March 6, 2004.
"Virtual Community as Network Ideology: Revisiting the WELL," co-sponsored by the Communication
and Technology and Mass Communication Sections, International Communication Association, New
Orleans, Louisiana. May 28-29, 2004.
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"How Digital Technology Met Utopian Ideology: Revisiting the First Hackers Conference," Popular
Communication Division, International Communication Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. May 28-
29, 2004.
"Cyberspace: The Local History of a Ubiquitous Metaphor," Society for Social Studies of Science,
Atlanta, Georgia. October 17, 2003.
"From Counterculture to Cyberculture: How the Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us Virtual Community,"
Society for the History of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. October 17, 2003.
"Virtual Community as Trading Zone," Society for Social Studies of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
November 8, 2002.
"Advertising the Network Revolution: The Internet as Ideological Emblem," Association of Internet
Researchers, Lawrence, Kansas. September 16, 2000.
"Cyberspace as the New Frontier? Mapping the Shifting Social Boundaries of the Network Society,"
International Communication Association, San Francisco, California. May 29, 1999.
"The Illusion of Wide-Open Spaces: Why We Imagine Cyberspace as the Old West," Popular Culture
Association, San Diego, California. April, 1999.
"The Living Room as Combat Zone: Meanings of Gunplay in Real-Life Crime Programming," Bang,
Bang, Shoot, Shoot!: Film, Television, Guns. Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
May, 1998.
"Rambo as Healing Narrative?: Recovering from the Cultural Trauma of the Vietnam War," The
International Society For Traumatic Stress Studies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. November, 1997.
"The Vietnam War as Cultural Trauma," Sixties Generations: From Montgomery to Viet Nam, Western
Connecticut State College. October, 1995.
"Healing as History: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial," Imagining Vietnam: Fourth Annual Central New
York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY College at Cortland. October, 1994.
CONFERENCE PANEL ORGANIZING
Organized "The Forgotten Openness of the Closed World." Panelists included Ron Kline, Sharon
Ghamari-Tabrizi and Jennifer Light. Society for the History of Technology, Las Vegas, Nevada. October
13, 2006.
Co-organized "Media Space: A Panel Discussion on Being Public in a Networked World" with Ph.D.
student Erica Robles. Chaired panel featuring Mark Andrejevic, Batya Friedman, and Anna McCarthy.
Sponsored by the Department of Communication and the Patrick Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary
Study of Science and Technology, Stanford University. April 14, 2006.
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Organized "Cybernetics and its Countercultures." Panelists included Lucy Suchman, Andrew Pickering
and Geoffrey Bowker. Society for Social Studies of Science, Pasadena, California. October, 2005.
Chaired "Collaboration in an Open Environment," a Refereed Roundtable of the Section on
Communication and Information Technologies, American Sociological Association, San Francisco,
California. August 17, 2004.
Co-organized two-panel stream entitled "Media Meets Technology" with Prof. Pablo Boczkowski, MIT.
Co-sponsored by the Communication and Technology and Mass Communication Sections, International
Communication Association, New Orleans, Louisiana. May 28-29, 2004.
Panel 1: The Co-Evolution of Communication, Artifacts, and Users
Panelists: Francois Bar, Fred Turner, Lisa Nakamura, JoAnne Yates and Wanda
Orlikowski
Panel 2: Work, Boundaries, and Transformative Practices
Panelists: Pablo Boczkowski, Geoffrey Bowker, Sonia Livingstone, Jonathan Sterne
Co-organized three-panel stream entitled "Media Meets Technology" with Prof. Pablo Boczkowski,
MIT. Society for the Social Study of Science, Atlanta, Georgia. October 17, 2003.
Panelists included Pablo Boczkowski, Geoffrey Bowker, Susan Douglas, Gregory Downey,
William Dutton, Tarleton Gillespie, Michele Jackson, Tim Lenoir, Leah Lievrouw, Trevor Pinch,
Bev Sauer and Susan Leigh Star.
Organized "From Cyberspace to Social Space: Mapping Social Categories and Managing Their
Contradictions." Panelists included Susan Leigh Star and Chandra Mukerji. International
Communication Association, San Francisco, California. May 29, 1999.
Organized "Trauma and Public Memory: Linking Theories of Individual and Social Response to
Psychological Trauma," The International Society For Traumatic Stress Studies, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada. November, 1997.
Chaired "High Tension: Crises of Masculinity" and "War Zones: Filmic Constructions of Gender and
Nation," Society for Cinema Studies, San Diego, California. April, 1998
TEACHING
Stanford University:
Graduate:
Comm 320: Computers, Information Ideology and American Culture Since World War II (Ph.D.
seminar)
Comm 217: Digital Journalism (M.A. seminar)
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Undergraduate:
Comm 120: Digital Media in Society (lecture, writing intensive)
Cross-listed in American Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Digital Humanities
Comm 104: Writing and Reporting the News (seminar)
Comm 1B: Media, Culture and Society (lecture)
Ph.D. Committees in Communication:
Supervisor:
Daniel Kreiss
Morgan Ames
Member:
Francis Lap Fung Lee, Dissertation: "Organizing Deliberation as Journalism's Role in Democracy:
Comparing Two Washington Post Forums in the Aftermath of September 11." Ph.D. awarded 2003.
Tenure Track, Dept. of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong.
Elizabeth Bandy, Dissertation: "Growing Up With Buffy: How Adolescent Female Fans Use the
Program in Their Everyday Lives." Ph.D. awarded 2006.
Isabel Awad, Dissertation: "Toward a Participatory Politics of Representation for Journalism:
Latinas/os' Civic Autonomy and the Press." Ph.D. awarded 2006. Post-doctoral Erasmus Mundus
Fellowship, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
John Wonyup Kim (ABD)
Roselyn Lee
Erica Robles
Leila Takayama
Ph.D. Committees in Other Departments, Member:
Christopher Witmore, Classics. "Multiple-field Approaches in the Mediterranean: Revisiting the Argolid
Exploration Project." Ph.D. Awarded 2005. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Humanities Laboratory, Stanford
University, 2005-2006. Post-Doctoral Research Associate, The Artemis A.W. Joukowsky and Martha
Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, 2006-2008.
Ingrid Erickson, Management Science and Engineering (ABD)
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Ph.D. Oral Defenses Chaired:
Lela Graybill, Art and Art History, "The Wound and the Weapon: The Visual Culture of Violence in the
Age of Reform, 1757-1832." May 12, 2006. Visiting lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture Studies,
Whitman College, 2006-2007.
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Master's Projects in Journalism Supervised:
Ying Shi, 2006
Kimberly Chase, 2005
Shannon Snow, 2005
Daniel Kreiss, 2004
Lia Steakley, 2004
Francine S. Miller, 2003
Adelene Lee, 2003
Master's Projects in Media Studies Supervised:
Huy Son, 2005
Evan Malahy, 2004
Allison Lee, 2004
Mathew Henick, 2004
Graduate Directed Studies Supervised:
Erica Robles, "Media, Space and the Idea of the Public," Fall, 2004.
Seeta Gangadharan, "Art, Information, and Politics in the American Counterculture," Winter, 2005.
Sarah Lewis, "Advanced Qualitative Research Design," Fall, 2006.
Sponsored and Award-Winning Undergraduate Research Projects Supervised:
Kathryn Rickertsen, "Interactive Technology and Primary Education in Accra, Ghana," awarded
Chappell Lougee Scholarship ($3245), 2005.
Carlyn Reichel, "Knee-Deep, the Smear Campaign in Modern American Politics: A Case Study of the
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth." American Studies Honors Thesis. Winner, Firestone Medal for
Excellence in Undergraduate Research (Prof. James Fishkin, Supervisor; Prof. Fred Turner, Reader),
2005.
Michelle Won, "The Emergence of an Asian-American Female Stereotype: The News Anchor,"
awarded Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education Major Research Grant ($3000), 2004.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Sloan School of Management:
Lecturer: Course 15.280: Management Communication (case-based lecture)
Visiting Instructor: Developed and co-taught a short-term intensive Communication course each year for
incoming MBA candidates.
MIT-China Management Education Project: Selected with two MIT colleagues to lead a
national conference for new professors of Management Communication in China at Lignan
College, Zhongshan University, Guangzho, China. Also lectured at Tsinghua University in
Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai. March, 2001.
Comparative Media Studies Master's Thesis Committees:
Zhan Li, 2003.
Anita Chan, 2002.
David Spitz, 2001.
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Lecturer: Created curriculum for and taught courses in writing, speaking and grammar to
foreign graduate students.
Harvard University:
John F. Kennedy School of Government:
Chair, Communication Department: Led re-design of Summer Program Communication
curriculum for incoming Master's Degree students in Public Policy. Summer, 1996.
Instructor: Taught courses in Communication, Negotiation, and English as a Second
Language to graduate students in Public Policy. Led workshops on cross-cultural
communication, writing and public speaking during the year. 1989-2000.
Division of Continuing Education:
Instructor: Created curriculum for and taught courses in American Literature and English as a
Second Language. Established and ran a writing center for Continuing Education students of
business administration and management. 1989-1996.
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Boston University, College of Communication, Department of Film and Television
Lecturer: Designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the social impact of television.
1995-1996.
Northeastern University, Department of English and English Language Center
Instructor: Taught composition, literature and English as a Second Language to
undergraduates. Presented an intensive, week-long seminar on American teaching methods to
incoming foreign teaching assistants each September. 1987-1992.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Journal Editing
Assistant Editor, The Communication Review. New York and Amsterdam: Gordon & Breach,
1996-1997.
Editorial Boards
Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, Sage, 2005-Present.
Grant Reviewing
National Science Foundation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Engineering and
Technology, 2005.
National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies Program, 2004.
Florida State University, 2004.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2002, 2003.
Article Reviewing
Technology and Culture, 2006
Social Forces, 2006
Games and Culture, 2005, 2006
The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, MIT Press, 2005 (for publication in 2007).
Communication Theory, 2005.
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Current Anthropology, 2005.
Social Studies of Science, 2004, 2005.
The Information Society, 2004.
New Media and Society, 2003, 2004.
Book Manuscript/Proposal Reviewing
University of Chicago Press, 2005, 2006.
Oxford University Press, 2004.
University Press of Kansas, 2004, 2006
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Conference Submission Reviewing
International Communication Association, Communication and Technology, Mass
Communication and Journalism Sections, 2005
International Communication Association, Journalism Special Interest Group, 2005.
Association of Internet Researchers, 2002, 2003, 2004.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Stanford University:
Faculty Advisory Board, Stanford Digital Repository, Stanford University Library. 2006 Present.
Faculty Board, Stanford Humanities Lab. 2003 Present.
Dean's Committee to Review the Master's Program in Journalism. Helped redesign Stanford's Master's
Program in Journalism. September, 2004 January, 2005.
Governance Board, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University. Help oversee the university-
wide design and implementation of curricula in writing and rhetoric. September, 2003 Present.
Governance Board, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Stanford University. Help oversee the
interdisciplinary undergraduate program in science and technology studies. September, 2003 Present.
Governance Board, American Studies Program, Stanford University. Help oversee the interdisciplinary
undergraduate program in American Studies. November, 2003 Present.
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Member of the Faculty, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University. Teach students in an
interdisciplinary undergraduate program in symbolic systems. June, 2004 Present.
Member of the Faculty, Digital Humanities Concentration, Inter-Departmental Humanities Major,
Stanford University. 2004 Present.
Graduate Studies Curriculum Committee, Department of Communication, Stanford University. 2004
Present.
Undergraduate Studies Curriculum Committee, Department of Communication, Stanford University.
2004 Present.
Admissions Committee, Journalism Master's Program, Department of Communication, Stanford
University. 2003 Present.
Admissions Committee, Ph.D. Program, Department of Communication, Stanford University. 2003
Present.
Faculty Search Committees, Department of Communication, Stanford University. Fall, 2003; Fall, 2005;
Spring, 2006.
Departmental Committee on Computing, Department of Communication, Stanford University. January,
2003 Present.
Rebele Fellowship Committee, Department of Communication, Stanford University. March, 2003.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
MBA Student Cohort Advisor, Sloan School of Management, MIT. Served as faculty advisor to fifty-six
first-year Sloan MBA students. Fall, 2001.
Faculty Representative, Merit Scholarship Committee, Sloan School of Management, MIT. Responsible
for selecting Merit Scholarship winners among second-year MBA students. 2001.
University of California, San Diego:
Graduate Representative, Search Committees for a professor of the political economy of communication
and for a professor of human information processing, Department of Communication, University of
California, San Diego. 1998-1999.
Graduate Representative, Graduate Affairs Committee, Department of Communication, University of
California, San Diego. 1997-1998.
CONSULTING
NewsTrust.Net, Mill Valley, California. Advised senior management on strategy for an online journalism
evaluation and aggregation system. September, 2005 Present.
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WBUR, New England's largest National Public Radio affiliate. Advised senior management on
multimedia strategy. August-December, 2001.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association
American Studies Association
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Association of Internet Researchers
International Communication Association
National Communication Association
Organization of American Historians
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Society for the History of Technology
Society for Social Studies of Science
LANGUAGES
Spanish: Fluent reading, writing, and speaking
German: Fluent reading, fair speaking
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