Thomas Streeter has been a faculty member of the Sociology Department of the University of Vermont since 1989. He has an undergraduate degree in Semiotics from Brown University and a PhD in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also taught for the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California, and for the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, NJ, in 2000-2001. He has been a UVM University Scholar for 2014-15, a Faculty Associate with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (2015-16), and a Faculty Resource Network Scholar in Residence, New York University (Fall 2015). He received the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy, at the International Communications Association in 2017.
The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet (NYU Press, 2011) is a study of the role of culture in the social construction of internet technology. His award-winning Selling the Air, a study of the cultural underpinnings of the creation of the US broadcast industry and its regulatory apparatus, was published in 1996. He edited, with Zephyr Teachout, a volume about the use of the internet in Howard Dean's run for President, called Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope, published in 2007. He has published articles and chapters in outlets ranging from the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal to the Journal of Communication to Critical Inquiry. He is currently working on a project about the effects of the shift from printed to digital documentation in routine legal practices from 1980 to the present.
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