Fred Turner (author)

Fred Turner is a professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and former department chair.^[1]

Before joining Stanford as an associate professor, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and a Ph.D.(2002) in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. In 2015, he was appointed as Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Stanford.^[1]

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

Bibliography[]

• The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (2013) ISBN 9780226817460
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006) ISBN 9780226817415
• Echoes of Combat: Trauma, Memory, and the Vietnam War (Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory in 1996; revised 2nd ed. with new title 2001)

References[]

External links[]

• Personal Page of Fred Turner
• 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
• The introduction to From Counterculture to Cyberculture
• An excerpt from The Democratic Surround