Richard Ling
| Richard Ling | |
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| Born |
July 19, 1954 Denver, Colorado |
| Residence | Singapore |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Sociology, Communication |
| Institutions |
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Telenor |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Known for | Analysis of the social consequences of mobile telephony |
| Notable awards | International Communication Association CROF Prize (2010), Media Ecology Association Erving Goffman Award (2010) |
Richard Ling (Rich Ling) is a communications scholar who focuses on mobile communication. He is the Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has studied the social consequences of mobile communication, text messaging and mobile telephony. He has examined the use of mobile communication for what he calls micro-coordination, use by teens, and use in generational situations, as a form of social cohesion. Most recently he has studied this in the context of large data bases and also in developing countries. He has published extensively in this area and is widely cited. He was named a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2016. He was named editor of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication in 2017.
Rich Ling is a fourth generation Coloradoan who grew up near Brighton, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1984. He has taught at the University of Wyoming in Laramie at IT University of Copenhagen and most recently at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a researcher for the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor.
Ling lived in Scandinavia for more than two decades. He worked at the Gruppen for Ressursstudier ("the resource study group") established by Jørgen Randers and has been a partner in the consulting firm Ressurskonsult, focusing on interactions between energy, technology and society. He was a member of the Telenor R&D team where he continues to have a connection. He has also been the Pohs visiting Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he continues to have an adjunct position.
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