Fred Turner is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University
in the Communication Department, with a focus on digital media,
journalism, and the intersection of media and American cultural
history. He is the acclaimed author of two books, From
Counterculture to Cyberculture and Echoes of Combat:
The Vietnam War in American Memory. His essays explore
questions of media and cultural change, and tackle topics
ranging from the rise of reality crime television to the
countercultural roots of the idea of virtual community. His news
stories, features, and reviews have appeared in the Pacific News
Service, the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Sunday
Globe Magazine.
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 in the
Sloan School of Management. Turner earned his Ph.D. in
Communication from the University of California, San Diego. He
holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brown
University and an M.A. in English from Columbia University.
selected books
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
(University Of Chicago Press, 2006)
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Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory(University of Minnesota Press; Updated edition, 2001)
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