Fred Turner

Fred Turner's research and teaching focus on digital media, journalism and the intersection of media and American cultural history.

Turner is the author of two books: From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006) and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (1996; Revised 2nd ed. 2001). His essays have largely explored questions of media and cultural change and have tackled topics ranging from the rise of reality crime television to the countercultural roots of the idea of virtual community.

Before joining the faculty at Stanford, Turner taught Communication at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He also worked as a journalist for ten years. His news stories, features and reviews have appeared in a variety of venues, including the Pacific News Service, the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine.

Turner earned his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego, in 2002. He has also earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown University and an M.A. in English from Columbia University.

During the academic year 2007-2008 he will be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.