[Air-l] Turner winner of 2007 James Carey Award

[Mark D. Johns]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- June 19, 2007

Contact: Dr. Mark D. Johns, Executive Director
Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research
c/o Department of Communication Studies
Luther College
Decorah, Iowa
Tel: (563) 387-1347 or (319) 268-1902
FAX: (563) 387-1132
email: mjohns at luther.edu

Turner winner of 2007 James Carey Award

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Dr. Fred Turner, Assistant Professor and Director of 
Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication at Stanford 
University, is the winner of the 2007 James W. Carey Media Research 
Award competition sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and 
Internet Research (www.cccsir.org).
	Turner’s award-winning entry was his recent book, “From Counterculture 
to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of 
Digital Utopianism” (University of Chicago Press, 2006).
	The Carey Award is presented annually from among nominated or submitted 
books or papers that have been presented or published in the previous 
year. To be worthy of the award, the work must be of highest quality and 
employ Carey’s theories to focus on communication and public life and 
the relationship between journalism and popular culture.
	The winning entry this year was chosen from an exceptionally strong 
field of works submitted by a long list of outstanding scholars.
	Dr. Turner’s book traces the transition of computer networks from cold 
war military equipment to instruments of social and communal interaction 
during the period from 1968 to 1998. He will receive the award plaque 
during a presentation at an upcoming national communication convention 
to be announced.
	The Couch Center established the annual Carey Award in 2004.
	The Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research is a non-profit 
organization established to promote the scholarship of the late Carl J. 
Couch and his academic associates. Couch is recognized as the founder of 
The New Iowa School in sociological and communication inquiry, and was a 
pioneer in the qualitative research of information technologies.
	The Center provides networking opportunities for students and scholars 
who conduct social and Internet research, inspired by Couch's work.
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