Fred Turner (academic)

Fred Turner (academic)

Fred Turner is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University in the Communication Department and the acclaimed author of two books, "From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism" (2006) and "Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory" (1996; Revised 2nd ed. 2001).

Before joining the faculty at Stanford, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Before joining academia, Turner worked as a journalist for over ten years writing for the Boston Phoenix and Boston Sunday Globe, among others.

External links

* [http://www.stanford.edu/group/fredturner/cgi-bin/drupal/ Personal Page of Fred Turner]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.htm New York Times review of "From Counterculture to Cyberculture...]
* http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/turner.html
* http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v046/46.3turner.html
* http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/817415.html


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