Nov. 15 Forum to examine Internet's effect
Dr. Thomas Streeter, professor and chair of sociology at the University of Vermont, will address "The Net Effect: What the Internet Tells us about Ourselves" at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Bluffton University's Yoder Recital Hall. The forum is free and open to the public.
Streeter is the author of the 2010 book "The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet," a study of the role of culture in the social construction of Internet technology.
He holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree, both in speech communication, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A faculty member at Vermont since 1989, he has also taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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