Rich Ling is a professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and has a position as a sociologist at the Telenor research institute located near Oslo, Norway. He has been the Pohs visiting professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and now he holds an adjunct position in that department. He is the author of several books, including the soon to be published New Tech, New Ties: How mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion (MIT). Rich Ling received his PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in his native US. For the past 13 years, he has worked at Telenor R&D and has been active in researching issues associated with new information communication technology and society. He has received recognition as an outstanding scholar from Rutgers University and Telenor (most recently with the Telenor research award for 250Â 000 Norske Kroner). In addition he has received the Goffman Award from the Media Ecology Society.

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