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Richard Ling (Rich Ling) is a communications scholar who focuses on mobile communication. He is the Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has studied the social consequences of mobile communication, text messaging and mobile telephony. He has examined the use of mobile communication for what he calls micro-coordination, use by teens, and use in generational situations, as a form of social cohesion. Most recently he has studied this in the context of large data bases and also in developing countries. He has published extensively in this area and is widely cited.〔Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman, ''Networked: the New Social Operating System.'' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.〕 ==Biography== Rich Ling is a fourth generation Coloradoan who grew up near Brighton, Colorado. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1984. He has taught at the University of Wyoming in Laramie at IT University of Copenhagen and most recently at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a researcher for the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor. Ling lived in Scandinavia for more than two decades. He worked at the Gruppen for Ressursstudier ("the resource study group") established by Jørgen Randers and has been a partner in the consulting firm Ressurskonsult, focusing on interactions between energy, technology and society. He was a member of the Telenor R&D team where he continues to have a connection. He has also been the Pohs visiting Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he continues to have an adjunct position. In 2012, Ling was a founder of the journal, ''Mobile Media and Communication'', published by Sage. He currently co-edits the journal. He is also a founding co-editor of the Oxford University Press series on mobile communication. Ling moved to Singapore in 2014, where he holds an endowed chair in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. He heads a research team that focuses on mobile communication in Myanmar and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Ling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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