Faculty
Steve Jones, Professor and Associate Dean of LAS
Steve Jones is Professor of Communication at UIC and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been using the internet since 1979 when he was using and co-authoring educational materials on the PLATO system. A social historian of communication technology, his research interests range from Internet technologies to audio technologies, Internet studies to popular music studies. His books have earned him critical acclaim and interviews in national and international media. Jones, co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers, has made numerous presentations to scholarly and business groups about the Internet and social change and about the Internet's social and commercial uses. He is co-editor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture, and edits New Media Cultures, a series of books on culture and technology for Sage Publications, and Digital Formations, a series of books on new media for Peter Lang Publishers. He has provided Internet consulting services to numerous corporations and not-for-profit organizations, and serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
- Ph.D., Institute for Communications Research; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Email: sjones@uic.edu
- Web Site http://info.comm.uic.edu/jones
- Phone: 312.996.3193
- Fax: 312.413.8661
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
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