Vincent Mosco

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Dr Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University, Canada, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society. He was also Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology. Mosco graduated from Georgetown University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1970 and received a PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 1975. His doctoral dissertation addressed government regulation of broadcasting in the United States and was completed under the supervision of Daniel Bell. He held postdoctoral positions with the Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy and with the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy. In addition to Queen’s, Mosco has held academic positions at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Georgetown University, Temple University and, in Canada, Carleton University. He has also held visiting positions at numerous universities worldwide including, in 2009, the Shaw Foundation Visiting Professorship at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.