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Rich Ling
Rich Ling (Ph.D., University of Colorado, sociology) is the Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University. Ling studies the social consequences of mobile communication including how it facilitates micro-coordination, how it has been adopted and used by teens in Norway and the United States, and how it is used by small-scale entrepreneurs in places such as Cote d’Ivoire and Myanmar. He has also examined how it illuminates more fundamental social forces such as strong-tie bonds and triadic interaction and how mobile communication is increasingly being structured into the social fabric.
Ling has written/edited eleven books and over 100 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. His single-author books include The Mobile Connection (Morgan Kaufmann, 2004), New Tech, New Ties (MIT, 2008) and Taken for Grantedness (MIT, 2012), a book that received a complimentary review in the journal Science. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, a founding co-editor of Mobile Media and Communication (Sage) and a founding co-editor of the Oxford University Press Series Studies in Mobile Communication. He was recently named a fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA). Also, he is the chair of the ICA Mobile Communication Interest Group.