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| Home Rich Ling is a sociologist at Telenor's research institute located near Oslo, Norway and he is also the Pohs visiting professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He also the author of the recently published book on the social consequences of mobile telephony entitled The Mobile Connection: The cell phone's impact on society and along with Per E. Pederson the editor of the book Mobile Communications: Renegotiation of the Social Sphere. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in his native US. Upon completion of his doctorate, he taught at the University of Wyoming in Laramie before coming to Norway on a Marshall Foundation grant. Since that time he has worked at the Gruppen for Ressursstudier (The resource study group) and he has been a partner in a consulting firm, Ressurskonsult, which focused on studies of energy, technology and society. For the past ten years, he has worked at Telenor R&D; and has been active in researching issues associated with new information communication technology and society with a particular focus on mobile telephony. He has led projects in Norway and participated in projects at the European level. Ling has published numerous articles, held posts at and lectured at Universities in Europe and the US and has participated in academic conferences in Europe, Asia and in the US. He has been responsible for organizing scholarly meetings and editing both academic journals and proceedings from academic conferences. He is an associate editor for The Information Society. He has received recognition as an outstanding scholar from Rutgers University. His analysis has appeared in Norwegian newspapers and on Norwegian TV as well as in periodicals such as the New York Times, Der Speigel, Newsweek Epoca (Brazil) and the Toronto Globe and Mail. | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |