Richard Ling

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Richard Ling
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Telenor

Richard Ling (Rich Ling) is a communications scholar who focuses on mobile communication. He was the Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at

teens, and use in generational situations, as a form of social cohesion. Most recently he has studied this in the context of large databases and also in developing countries. He has published extensively in this area and is widely cited.[2] He was named a Fellow of the International Communication Association
in 2016. He was named editor of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication in 2017.

Biography

Rich Ling is a fourth-generation Coloradoan who grew up near Brighton, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1984. He has taught at the University of Wyoming in Laramie at IT University of Copenhagen and most recently at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a researcher for the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor.[3]

Ling has lived in Scandinavia, specifically Norway, for more than two decades. He worked at the Gruppen for Ressursstudier ("the resource study group") established by Jørgen Randers and has been a partner in the consulting firm Ressurskonsult, focusing on interactions between energy, technology, and society. He was a member of the Telenor R&D team where he continues to have a connection. He has also been the Pohs visiting professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he continues to have an adjunct position.[citation needed]

In 2012, Ling was a founder of the journal, Mobile Media and Communication, published by

SAGE. He currently co-edits the journal. He is also a founding co-editor of the Oxford University Press series on mobile communication.[4]
He was also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Ling moved to Singapore in 2014, where he held an endowed chair in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. He headed a research team that focuses on mobile communication in Myanmar and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.[5][citation needed]

Work

Ling is known for his work on the social consequences of mobile communication. His notion of micro-coordination (see: "Hyper-coordination via Mobile Phones in Norway" written with Birgitte Yttri) describes what is likely one of the major social consequences of the diffusion of mobile communication into society.[6] He has also described how mobile communication increases social cohesion in small groups and how it has become structured into society.[citation needed]

His book Taken for Grantedness (MIT Press 2012)[7] examines how mobile communication has become a structured part of society with a position that can be compared in some ways to that of mechanical timekeeping. This book has been the subject of a review in journal Science. Prior to this he published the book New Tech, New Ties (MIT 2008) that won the 2009 Goffman Award from the Media Ecology Association.[8] He is also the author of a book on the social consequences of mobile telephony titled The Mobile Connection (Morgan Kaufmann) and along with Jonathan Donner he has written the book Mobile Phones and Mobile Communication.[9]

Ling is a founding co-editor of the

National Public Radio and Norwegian TV as well as for periodicals such as The New York Times,[11] The Economist, the Los Angeles Times, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, Época (Brazil), Wired, Toronto's The Globe and Mail, Norwegian publications such as Aftenposten, VG, and Dagbladet and Danish publications such as Politiken.[citation needed
]

References

  1. ^ "Faculty profile".
  2. ^ Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, Networked: The New Social Operating System. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
  3. ^ "Richard Ling". MIT Press. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  4. ISBN 978-0-19-086438-5
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  5. ISSN 1369-118X
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  6. ^ "Hyper-coordination via Mobile Phones in Norway." In Perpetual Contact: Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance, edited by James E. Katz and M. Aakhus, 139 – 169. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
    doi:10.1017/cbo9780511489471.013
  7. ^ "Taken for Grantedness". MIT Press. Archived from the original on 2015-01-21.
  8. ^ "Past MEA Award Recipients". www.media-ecology.org.
  9. ^ Polity Press/Wiley, 2009
  10. ^ "Richard Ling receives Research and Innovation Award". Telenor Group. 23 October 2008.
  11. ^ Feiler, Bruce (17 September 2010). "Reaching Out From the Bathroom Office" – via NYTimes.com.

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