Summary
Fred Turner (born April 4, 1961) is an American academic. He is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University, having formerly served as department chair.[1]
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| Born | April 4, 1961 |
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| Institutions | Stanford University |
Before joining Stanford as an associate professor, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. In 2015, he was appointed as Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford.[1]
Before joining academia, Turner worked as a journalist for over ten years writing for The Boston Phoenix and Boston Sunday Globe, among others.
Bibliography edit
- The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (2013) ISBN 9780226817460
- From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006) ISBN 9780226817415
- Echoes of Combat: Trauma, Memory, and the Vietnam War (Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory in 1996; revised 2nd ed. with new title 2001)
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External links edit
- Personal Page of Fred Turner
- New York Times review of "From Counterculture to Cyberculture...
- http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/turner.html
- Turner, Fred (2005). "Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community". Technology and Culture. 46 (3): 485–512. doi:10.1353/tech.2005.0154. S2CID 110662534. Project MUSE 186646.
- The introduction to From Counterculture to Cyberculture
- An excerpt from The Democratic Surround