Professor 5844 Ellison Hall Biographical Statement
Ronald E. RiceDr. Rice is the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication, and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media, at University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Rice has been elected divisional officer in both the International Communication Association and the Academy of Management, elected President of the ICA (2006-2007), awarded a Fulbright Award to Finland (2006), appointed as Wee Kim Wee Professor of the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2007), and has served as Associate Editor for Human Communication Research, and for MIS Quarterly. Dr. Rice received his B.A. in Literature from Columbia University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication Research from Stanford University. He also has corporate experience in systems and communication analysis, banking operations, data processing management, publishing, statistical consulting, and high school teaching. Before coming to University of California at Santa Barbara, he was Professor II (Distinguished) and Chair of the Department of Communication at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, NJ, and Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. He has co-authored or co-edited Public Communication Campaigns (1st ed: 1981, 2nd ed: 1989, 3rd ed: 2001, Sage), The New Media: Communication, Research and Technology (1984, Sage), Managing Organizational Innovation (1987, Columbia University Press), Research Methods and the New Media (1988, The Free Press), The Internet and Health Communication (2001, Sage), Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication (2001, MIT Press), Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement and Interaction (2002, MIT Press), The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research and Practice (2006, Erlbaum), and Media Ownership: Research and Regulation (2007, Hampton Press). He has conducted research and published widely in communication science, public communication campaigns, computer-mediated communication systems, methodology, organizational and management theory, information systems, information science and bibliometrics, and social networks. His publications have won awards as best dissertation from the American Society for Information Science, half a dozen times as best paper from International Communication Association divisions, and twice as best paper from Academy of Management divisions. |