Frederick Turner Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication, Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and Professor, by courtesy, of Art and Art History and of History Curriculum Vitae available Online

Bio

BIO Fred Turner’s research and teaching focus on media technology and cultural change. He is especially interested in the ways that emerging media have helped shape American life since World War II.

Turner is the author of three books: The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties; From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism; and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. His essays have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality crime television to the role of the Burning Man festival in contemporary new media industries. They are available here: fredturner.stanford.edu/essays/.

Turner’s research has received a number of academic awards and has been featured in publications ranging from Science and the New York Times to Ten Zen Monkeys. It has also been translated into French, Spanish, German, Polish and Chinese.

Turner is also the Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Before joining the faculty at Stanford, Turner taught Communication at ’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, writing for the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, the Boston Phoenix, and the Pacific News Service.

Turner earned his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. He has also earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown

University and an M.A. in English from .

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Professor, Communication • Professor (By courtesy), Art & Art History • Professor (By courtesy), History • Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Associate Professor, Department of Communication, , (2010- present) • Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, (2010- present) • Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Stanford University, (2003-2009)

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HONORS AND AWARDS • Katherine Singer Kovács Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2013) • Media@McGill Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2013) • The CITASA Book Award Special Mention, CITASA (2008) • Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Excellence, Association of American Publishers (2007) • The James W. Carey Media Research Award, Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (2007) 5 OF 14

BOARDS, ADVISORY COMMITTEES, PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • Affiliated Faculty Member, Program in Symbolic Systems, Stanford University • Affiliated Faculty Member, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University • Affiliated Faculty Member, Program in Urban Studies, Stanford University • Affiliated Faculty Member, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Stanford University • Affiliated Faculty Member, Program in American Studies, Stanford University • Member, Society for Social Studies of Science 5 OF 107

PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS • American Studies • Modern Thought and Literature • Science, Technology and Society • Symbolic Systems Program

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego , Communication (2002) • M.A., Columbia University , English and American Literature (1985) • B.A, Brown University , Magna Cum Laude, in English and American Literature (1984)

Teaching

COURSES 2021-22 • Back to the Future: Media, Art, and Politics in the 1980s: COMM 128, COMM 228, COMM 328, HISTORY 258A, HISTORY 358A (Win) • Media and Time: COMM 378 (Spr) • Media, Culture, and Society: AMSTUD 1B, COMM 1B (Spr)

2020-21 • Media Cultures of the Cold War: COMM 386 (Win) • Media, Culture, and Society: AMSTUD 1B, COMM 1B (Win) • The Rise of Digital Culture: AMSTUD 120, COMM 120W, COMM 220 (Spr)

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2019-20 • Media Technology Theory: ARTHIST 465, COMM 384, FILMSTUD 465A (Spr)

2018-19 • Digital Media in Society: AMSTUD 120, COMM 120W, COMM 220 (Win)

STANFORD ADVISEES Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)

Sanna Ali, Andrew Fitzgerald, Anna Gibson, Frank Mondelli

Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)

Jeff Nagy, Morgan Weiland

Master's Program Advisor

Katie Langelier

Doctoral (Program)

Daniel Akselrad, Caitlin Burke, Rebecca Lewis, Jeff Nagy, Morgan Weiland

Publications

PUBLICATIONS • The Selling of Virtual Reality: Novelty and Continuity in the Cultural Integration of Technology COMMUNICATION CULTURE & CRITIQUE Nagy, J., Turner, F. 2019; 12 (4): 535–52 • Millenarian Tinkering The Puritan Roots of the Maker Movement TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Turner, F. 2018; 59 (4): S160–S182 • The arts at Facebook: An aesthetic infrastructure for surveillance capitalism POETICS Turner, F. 2018; 67: 53–62 • Trump on Twitter: How a Medium Designed for Democracy Became an Authoritarian's Mouthpiece TRUMP AND THE MEDIA Turner, F., Boczkowski, P. J., Papacharissi, Z. 2018: 143–49 • Network Celebrity: Entrepreneurship and the New Public Intellectuals PUBLIC CULTURE Turner, F., Larson, C. 2015; 27 (1): 53-84

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