Steve Jones

Steve Jones, UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago

Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication, Research Associate in the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Adjunct Professor of Electronic Media in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois – Chicago, and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds the Ph.D. in Communication from the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1987), M.S. in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1984) and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1984). He served as Head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois – Chicago from 1997 to 2003, and as Head of the Faculty of Communication at the University of Tulsa from 1992 to 1997. He served as Associate Dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2006 - 2009.Jones is author and editor of numerous books, including Society Online, CyberSociety, Virtual Culture, Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety 2.0, The Encyclopedia of New Media, Rock Formation: Technology, Music and Mass Communication (all published by Sage), The Internet for Educators and Homeschoolers (ETC Publications), Pop Music & the Press (Temple University Press) and Afterlife as Afterimage: Understanding Posthumous Fame (Peter Lang Publishing). He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals including ones in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Cultural Studies, Journal of Virtual Environments, Works and Days, Iowa Journal of Communication, Stanford Humanities Review, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, The Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media and American Journalism. His research interests include the social history of communication technology, health and new media, virtual environments and virtual reality, popular music studies, internet studies, and media history.Jones was the founder and first President of the Association of Internet Researchers and serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project. He has made numerous presentations to scholarly and business groups about the Internet and social change and about the Internet's social and commercial uses. He is co-editor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture and edits Digital Formations, a series of books on digital media, the Internet and communication (Peter Lang Publishing). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Tides Foundation. In addition to numerous honors and awards, the International Communication Association and the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research created the annual Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture at the International Communication Association convention in recognition of his contributions to the study of communication and technology.

Associate Dean for Liberal Arts & Sciences at University of Illinois at Chicago

August 2006 - August 2009

Oversaw facilities, information technology, research, graduate affairs and social science units in a college with 22 departments and programs, 60 undergraduate major fields of specialization, 40 minors, about 50 graduate degrees at the masters and doctoral levels, over 360 tenure track faculty, 9,400 undergraduate and 1,300 graduate students.

Founder and Past President at Association of Internet Researchers

1998 - 2004

Professor at University of Tulsa

1990 - 1997

Professor at University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

1987 - 1990

UIC Distinguished Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago

August 2009

Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago

August 1997

Professor of Communication.

Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1986

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1984 – 1998

Ph.D.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1983 – 1984

M.S.

Concentration: Journalism

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1979 – 1983

B.S.

Concentration: Biology

Internet Studies, New Media, Virtual Reality, Virtual Environments, Media History, Mobile Media, Health and Information Technology, Popular Music Studies, Music and Technology, Internet History, PLATO