Roger Silverstone

The inspiration behind Polis.^[1]

Career

• born Birkenhead, Cheshire 15 June 1945;
• Lecturer, then Reader, in Sociology, Brunel University 1976-91,
• Director, Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology 1987-91;
• Professor of Media Studies, Sussex University 1991-98;
• Professor of Media and Communications, London School of Economics 1998-2006;
• died Oxford 16 July 2006.^[2]

Publications

• R. Silverstone, Television and Everyday Life, Routledge, 1994.
• R. Silverstone, Visions of Surburbia, Routledge, 1996.
• R. Silverstone, Communication by Design: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, 1998.
• R. Silverstone, Why Study the Media?, SAGE Publications 1999.
• Raymond Williams, (introduction by R. Silverstone), Television: Technology and Cultural Form, Routledge Classics, 2003.
• R. Silverstone, Media and Morality: On the Rise of the Mediapolis, Polity Press 2006 (1st Edition). Book used in a course organized by Polis [3]

Notes

1. ^ Nick Couldry, 'Professor Roger Silverstone, Media studies pioneer at the LSE', The Independent, Published: 20 July 2006
2. ^ Couldry, Ibid.