Richard Ling#
Membership Number: | 5373 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2020 |
Main Country of Residence: | SINGAPORE |
ORCID: | 0000-0002-6336-4050 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Visiting Researcher Institutt for samfunnsforskning, (Institute for social research)
- 2014 - present, Shaw Foundation Chair, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- 2009 - 2014 Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, Professor
- 2008 - 2019 Consultant, Telenor Research
- 1997- 2008 Senior Research Scientist, Telenor R&D
- 1993 - 1997 Research Scientist, Telenor R&D
- 2007 - present Adjunct Researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 2005 Pohs Visiting Professor of Wireless Communication, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Fields of Scholarship
- Technology and society
- Qualitative research
- Social consequences of mobile communication
- Mobile communication and news
Honours and Awards
- International Communication Association Fellow
- Erving Goffman Award presented by the Media Ecology Society
- New Tech, New Ties is nominated for the best book in technology and society in book of 2008 by The American Sociological Association’s section on Communication
- International Communication Association CROF prize
- PROSE award (Honorable mention) for the best book on Sociology or Social Work in 2008 (for New Tech, New Ties)
- Telenor research award (external competition) (250 000 Norsk Kroner)
- Telenor Outstanding research award (Internal competition)
- Nomination for the EU’s Descartes prize for the best IST project
- Outstanding Scholar Award presented by Rutgers University
- Undergraduate Teaching Award (nominated)