26 Facts About Richard Ling

Richard Ling is a communications scholar who focuses on mobile communication.

Richard Ling was the Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Richard Ling has studied the social consequences of mobile communication, text messaging and mobile telephony.

Richard Ling has examined the use of mobile communication for what he calls micro-coordination, used by teens, and use in generational situations, as a form of social cohesion.

Richard Ling has published extensively in this area and is widely cited.

Richard Ling was named a Fellow of the International Communication Association in 2016.

Richard Ling was named editor of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication in 2017.

Rich Ling is a fourth-generation Coloradoan who grew up near Brighton, Colorado.

Richard Ling has taught at the University of Wyoming in Laramie at IT University of Copenhagen and most recently at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Richard Ling has been a researcher for the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor.

Richard Ling has lived in Scandinavia, specifically Norway, for more than two decades.

Richard Ling has 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, Richard Ling was a founder of the journal, Mobile Media and Communication, published by SAGE.

Richard Ling is a founding co-editor of the Oxford University Press series on mobile communication.

Richard Ling was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Richard Ling moved to Singapore in 2014, where he held an endowed chair in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University.

Richard Ling is known for his work on the social consequences of mobile communication.

Richard Ling has described how mobile communication increases social cohesion in small groups and how it has become structured into society.

Richard Ling's book Taken for Grantedness examines how mobile communication has become a structured part of society with a position that can be compared in some ways to that of mechanical timekeeping.

Richard Ling is the author of a book on the social consequences of mobile telephony titled The Mobile Connection and along with Jonathan Donner he has written the book Mobile Phones and Mobile Communication.

Richard Ling is a founding co-editor of the SAGE journal Mobile Media and Communication.

Richard Ling is a founding editor of the Oxford University Press series on mobile communication.

Richard Ling has been the co-editor, along with Scott Campbell, of the Mobile Communication Research Series.

Richard Ling is an associate editor for journals The Information Society, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, the Journal of Communication as well as Information Technology and International Development.

Richard Ling has received recognition as an outstanding scholar from the International Communication Association, Rutgers University, and the Telenor Research Award in 2009.

Richard Ling has been interviewed on The Discovery Channel, National Public Radio and Norwegian TV as well as for periodicals such as The New York Times, The Economist, the Los Angeles Times, Der Spiegel, Newsweek, Epoca, Wired, Toronto's The Globe and Mail, Norwegian publications such as Aftenposten, VG, and Dagbladet and Danish publications such as Politiken.