[Isait] CDDC speaker series: Steve Jones 3:30TH, 334 Williams

[jeremy hunsinger]

please announce/distribute to interested faculty/grad/undergrad

3:30pm Thursday, 21 February 2002
in Williams 334 at Virginia Tech
The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Speaker Series
Presents

Everything I Know About the Internet I Learned from PLATO

In this presentation, Professor Jones tells how he came to the computing 
and Internet as an object of study through timesharing and the PLATO 
system.  He then discusses the nature of online communities, which have 
been at the core of his recent research.  He then concludes moves into 
his work with the Pew Internet and American Life project.

About the Author
Steve Jones has been Internetworking since 1979 when he was using and 
co-authoring educational materials on the PLATO system at the University 
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Communication 
from the Institute for Communications Research there in 1987, and is 
author of five books, including Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety 
and Virtual Culture. A social historian of communication technology, his 
books have earned him critical acclaim and interviews for stories in 
Time, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek and several 
other newspapers and magazines. He has also been interviewed on radio 
and TV, and has been a guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "Sounds 
Like Science."

Jones, co-founder of the association(of).internet.researchers, has made 
numerous presentations to scholarly and business groups about the 
Internet and social change and about the Internet's social and 
commercial uses, and was selected to participate in the U.S. Department 
of Commerce's efforts to review proposals for funding parts of the 
"information highway." He is co-editor of New Media & Society, an 
international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture 
and edits New Media Cultures, a series of books on culture and 
technology for Sage Publications.

jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
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