Rich Ling is the Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technical University, Singapore and has a position as a sociologist at the Telenor
research institute located near Oslo, Norway. He is the author and editor of
several books and magazines.
Rich Ling received his Ph.D. in sociology from the
University of Colorado, Boulder in his native US. He has worked at the Gruppen
for Ressursstudier (The resource study group) and he has been a partner in a
consulting firm, Ressurskonsult, which focused on studies of energy, technology
and society. For the past thirteen years, he has worked at Telenor R&D and
has been active in researching issues associated with new information
communication technology and society with a particular focus on mobile telephony.
Rich Ling has received recognition as an outstanding scholar from Rutgers
University and Telenor (most recently with the Telenor research award for 250Â
000 Norske Kroner) and has received the Goffman Award from the Media Ecology
Society.
Leopoldina Fortunati is Professor of Sociology of
Communication at the Faculty of Education of the University of Udine. She has
conducted several research in the field of gender studies, cultural processes
and communication and information technologies. She is the author of many books
and is the editor with J. Katz and R. Riccini of Mediating the Human Body.
Technology, Communication and Fashion (2003), with P. Law and S. Yang of New
Technologies in Global Societies (2006) and with Jane Vincent of Electronic
Emotion. The Mediation of Emotion via Information and Communication
Technologies (2009). She is very active at European level especially in COST
networks and is the Italian representative in the COST Domain Committee (ISCH,
Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health). She is associate editor of the
journal The Information Society and serves as referee for many outstanding
journals. She is the co-chair with Richard Ling of the International
Association "The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication"
(SSSMC) which intends to facilitate the international advancement of
cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies. Her works have been published
in eleven languages: Bulgarian, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish.
Richard Harper is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
in Cambridge and co-manages the Socio-Digital Systems group. Richard is a
sociologist concerned with how to design for 'being human' in an age when human
nature is often caricatured or rendered in oversimplifying ways.
His 10th book, Texture: Human expression in the age of
communications overload (MIT Press) was awarded the Society of Internet
Researcher's 'Book of the Year (2011)'. Amongst his prior books was the IEEE
award winning The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press,2002), co-authored
with Abi Sellen, and Inside the IMF: an ethnography of documents, technology
and organisational action (Academic Press, 1997). In 2011 he published The
Connected Home: the future of domestic life (Springer, Dec, 2011). His latest
collection, Trust, Computing and Society ', will be published by CUP in April
this year. He is currently working on a monograph (with Dave Randall and Wes
Sharrock) called Choice: The science of reason in the 21st Century, (Polity
Press).
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Joachim R. Höflich studied economics, social science and
communication sciences. He worked at the universities of Augsburg, Hohenheim,
Bamberg and Munich. Since September 2002 he is Professor for Communication
Science with a focus on media integration at the University of Erfurt. Research
interests include media use and media effects; ‘new’ communication technologies
and changes of mediation cultures; theory of mediated (interpersonal)
communication. Latest publication: Mobile Kommunikation im Kontext. Studien zur
Nutzung des Mobiltelefons im öffentlichen Raum (Mobile communcation in context.
Studies of mobile phone usage in the public sphere). Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.
James E. Katz, PhD, is the Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University’s College of Communication. In addition, he directs its Division of Emerging Media Studies. The division addresses the process of how new media technologies are created and introduced to users, the effects they have on users, and how technologies and the content they produce are molded, co-constructed and re-constructed by users.
Dr. Katz joined BU from Rutgers University where he held the
title of Board of Governors Professor of Communication, the highest honor the
University can bestow on a member of its faculty. During his time at Rutgers,
Katz served two terms as chair of the Department of Communication and also
directed the Center for Mobile Communication Studies, which he founded in 2004.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Katz headed the social science research unit at Bell
Communications Research, which also honored him with the title of Distinguished
Member of Staff.
Dr. Katz has devoted his career to analyzing the uses and
social consequences of emerging communication technologies, especially the
Internet and telephone. He explores how they affect social interaction and what
their uses reveal about human nature and organizations and was among the first
to demonstrate their pro-social uses. He also seeks to understand what the
future holds in terms of society and communication technologies and works with
others to explore ways in which society can best prepare itself to make the
optimal use of new developments.
Katz has published widely. Among his books are Magic in
the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life, Social
Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, Expression (with Ronald E.
Rice) and Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies. He is author or
co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed articles. His works have been
translated into seven languages.
Dr. Katz has won many awards for his scholarship, including
the 2011 Ogburn career achievement award from the American Sociological Association
and the 2009 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Twentieth Century Communications
History. He received from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
the Medalion per il Lectio Magistralis, a most esteemed honor in the European
academic tradition. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement Science (AAAS), one of America’s most important scientific
societies, has served as editor of Human Communication Research, a
top-ranked journal in the field and has been awarded fellowships at Harvard,
Princeton and MIT. In 2012, he completed a term as the chair of the
International Communication Association’s Division on Communication and
Technology. He holds two US patents, one of which has been patented internationally.
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OFFICERS
Core Advisory
GroupChair: Rich Ling, Nanyang Technical University
Co-Chair: Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine
Advisory Board
Richard Harper, University of Surrey
Joachim Höflich, Universität Erfurt
James Katz, Boston University
Charter Officers
Ben Andersen, Telenor R & D
Akiba Cohen, Yezreel Valley College
Leslie Haddon, London School of Economics
Yoshiaki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo
Shin D. Kim, Hallym University
Christian Licoppe, Telecom Paristech
Kristóf Nyíri, Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsLeysia
Leysia Palen, University of Colorado
Fernando Paragas, Nanyang Technological University
Pirjo Rautiainen, University of Tampere
Core Advisory
GroupChair: Rich Ling, Nanyang Technical University
Co-Chair: Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine
Advisory Board
Richard Harper, University of Surrey
Joachim Höflich, Universität Erfurt
James Katz, Boston University
Charter Officers
Ben Andersen, Telenor R & D
Akiba Cohen, Yezreel Valley College
Leslie Haddon, London School of Economics
Yoshiaki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo
Shin D. Kim, Hallym University
Christian Licoppe, Telecom Paristech
Kristóf Nyíri, Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsLeysia
Leysia Palen, University of Colorado
Fernando Paragas, Nanyang Technological University
Pirjo Rautiainen, University of Tampere
TYPES OF MEMBERSHIP
Full
Confers the privileges of voting and holding elective
office. Requirements include evidence of scientific training beyond the
undergraduate level and at least one peer-reviewed publication.
Sustaining
Given on an honorary basis in recognition of a financial
contribution to the Society’s well-being and continuation.
Associate
For people who do not meet the criteria for Full membership
Requirements include documented interest in some aspect of mobile communication
research (e.g., scientific, public policy, regulatory, legislative, and/or
advocacy).
Fellows
Only available by election according to by-laws.
Dues
At present, annual memberships are free. This may be subject
to change
