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Professor Frank Webster
| Professor Frank Webster Department of Sociology Birmingham University UK websterf@css.bham.ac.uk
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Frank Webster (Space, Place and the Virtual University) was born and
raised in a small mining village in County Durham. He went to school in
Spennymoor, and went on to Durham University from 1969 to 1973 (BA, 1972;
MA 1974) and the London School of Economics (Ph.D., 1978). He has worked at
universities in London and California, and from 1990 was Professor of
Sociology at Oxford Brookes University, and has been Professor of Sociology
at the University of Birmingham since January 1, 1999. Frank is also Docent
in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of
Tampere, Finland. Frank has been much influenced by the work of the late Philip Abrams, which leads him to be sympathetic towards historical sociology and large-scale analyses of change. He is also shaped by a background in literature and European social theory. He has done research in sociology of literature, social history of the North East coal field, and, for most of his career, changes in the information domain. This latter has been very wide-ranging, from technology effects to changes in higher education, from photography to financial data flows. He is the author of several books, including The New Photography (Calder, 1980), Information Technology: A Luddite Analysis (with Kevin Robins, Ablex, 1986), The Technical Fix: Computers, Industry and Education (with Kevin Robins, Macmillan, 1989), Theories of the Information Society (Routledge, 1995), The Postmodern University? (edited, with Anthony Smith, Open University Press, 1997), Times of the Technoculture: from the information society to virtual life (with Kevin Robins, Routledge, 1999), and Theory and Society: Understanding the Present (edited, with Gary Browning and Abigail Halcli, Sage, 1999). |
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