Fred Turner (author)

Fred Turner
Born	(1961-04-04)April 4, 1961
Academic background
Education	Brown University Columbia University UC San Diego
Academic work
Institutions	Stanford University

Fred Turner(born April 4, 1961) is an American academic. He is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication atStanford University,having formerly served as department chair.

Before joining Stanford as an associate professor, Turner taught Communication atHarvard University'sJohn F. Kennedy School of Governmentand theMassachusetts Institute of Technology.He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature fromBrown University,an M.A. in English fromColumbia University,and a Ph.D. in Communication from theUniversity of California, San Diego.In 2015, he was appointed as Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford.

Before joining academia, Turner worked as a journalist for over ten years writing forTheBoston PhoenixandBoston Sunday Globe,among others.

Bibliography

• The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties(2013)ISBN9780226817460
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture:Stewart Brand,theWhole EarthNetwork and the Rise of Digital Utopianism(2006)ISBN9780226817415
• Echoes of Combat: Trauma, Memory, and the Vietnam War(Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memoryin 1996; revised 2nd ed. with new title 2001)

External links

• Personal Page of Fred Turner
• New York Times review of "From Counterculture to Cyberculture...
• http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/turner.htmlArchived2006-10-03 at theWayback Machine
• 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.S2CID110662534.Project MUSE186646.
• The introduction toFrom Counterculture to Cyberculture
• An excerpt fromThe Democratic Surround