Prepared for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Phoenix, Arizona, 25 May 2012.

The Communication Revolution and the Field: Fred Williams

Bill Dutton Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford

Fred Williams, Aimee Dorr, and Bill Dutton in 1981

Leading the Field in the Study of New Media and the Communication Revolution

Founding Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at USC: Founded on the Study of ‘New Media’ in 1974

1974 – Syracuse ‘School of Information Studies’1985 – UK’s PICT Programme1996 – U-M ‘School of Information’1998 – Harvard’s Berkman Center2000 – AoIR’s first conference2001 – Oxford Internet Institute

Thought Leader on the Convergence of Information and Communication Technologies, such as the Internet

Frederick Williams (1982) The Communications Revolution. Beverly Hills: Sage.

‘Frederick Williams first identified the second concentration [of innovations] in his book …’ – van Dijk, J. (2012) The Network Society, 3rd Edition. Sage.