Fred Turner: Stanford Professor, Author, and Media Scientist

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Fred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of three books: The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (University of Chicago Press, 2013); From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press, 2006); and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (Anchor/Doubleday, 1996; 2nd ed., University of Minnesota Press, 2001). Before coming to Stanford, Fred taught Communication at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He also worked for ten years as a journalist. He has written for newspapers and magazines ranging from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Harper’s.

In short, Fred is an expert on the relationship between politics and media. In this conversation (recorded in September 2020), Fred and Matt Prewitt from RadicalxChange Foundation discuss their hopes for a media landscape more conducive to democracy.

Credits:

• Production by Jennifer Morone, Leon Erichsen, and Matt Prewitt
• Editing and Sound Engineering by Jennifer Morone
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone “Wind in the Willows” is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• Interlude music by Jared C. Balogh “Social Graces” is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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Credits:

• Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
• Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
• Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
• Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)