fred williams ica-2012
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Bill Dutton's presentation on the contributions of Fred Williams, founding Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.TRANSCRIPT
Prepared for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Phoenix, Arizona, 25 May 2012.
The Communication Revolution and the Field: Fred Williams
Bill Dutton Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford
Fred Williams, Aimee Dorr, and Bill Dutton in 1981
Leading the Field in the Study of New Media and the Communication Revolution
Founding Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at USC: Founded on the Study of ‘New Media’ in 1974
1974 – Syracuse ‘School of Information Studies’1985 – UK’s PICT Programme1996 – U-M ‘School of Information’1998 – Harvard’s Berkman Center2000 – AoIR’s first conference2001 – Oxford Internet Institute
Thought Leader on the Convergence of Information and Communication Technologies, such as the Internet
Frederick Williams (1982) The Communications Revolution. Beverly Hills: Sage.
‘Frederick Williams first identified the second concentration [of innovations] in his book …’ – van Dijk, J. (2012) The Network Society, 3rd Edition. Sage.