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
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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
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Fred Williams, Aimee Dorr, and Bill Dutton in 1981
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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
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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.