Dr. Richard Ling is a sociologist and senior researcher for Telenor's R & D division, located in Kjeller Norway. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He taught at the University of Wyoming in Laramie before going to Norway on a Marshall Foundation grant. Since that time, he has worked at the Gruppen for Ressursstudier (the resource study group) funded by Jergan Randers and has been a partner in a small consulting firm, Ressurskonsult, which focused on studies of energy, technology, and society. Since 1994, Dr. Ling has worked at Telenor, focusing on researching issues associates with new information technology and society. He is the author of an impressive volume entitled, The Mobile Connection (2004).
Rich Ling is a sociologist at Telenor’s research institute located near Oslo, Norway and he is also the Pohs visiting professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He also the author of the recently published book on the social consequences of mobile telephony entitled The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society and along with Per E. Pederson the editor of the book Mobile Communications: Renegotiation of the Social Sphere and he is in the process of writing a book entitled Mediated ritual interaction.
He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in his native US. Upon completion of his doctorate, he taught at the University of Wyoming in Laramie before coming to Norway on a Marshall Foundation grant. Since that time he has worked at the Gruppen for Ressursstudier (The resource study group) and he has been a partner in a consulting firm, Ressurskonsult, which focused on studies of energy, technology and society. For the past ten years, he has worked at Telenor R&D and has been active in researching issues associated with new information communication technology and society with a particular focus on mobile telephony. He has led projects in Norway and participated in projects at the European level.
Ling has published numerous articles, held posts at and lectured at universities in Europe and the US and has participated in academic conferences in Europe, Asia and in the US. He has been responsible for organizing scholarly meetings and editing both academic journals and proceedings from academic conferences. He has received recognition as an outstanding scholar from Rutgers University. Along with Scott Campbell he is the editor of The Mobile Communication Research Annual and he is an associate editor for The Information Society. His analysis has appeared in Norwegian newspapers. He has been interviewed on The Discovery Channel and Norwegian TV as well as for periodicals such as the New York Times, Wired, Der Speigel, Newsweek, Época (Brazil) and the Toronto Globe and Mail.
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April 24, 2007