Next Generation Video Communications

A one day symposium presented by
The Georgia Centers for Advanced Telecommunications Technology

Bruce Klopfenstein Director, Professor Dowden Center for New Media Studies University of Georgia

Education

Ph.D., Communication, The Ohio State University, March 1985
M.A., Communication, The Ohio State University, September 1981
B.A.C., Radio-TV-Film, Bowling Green State University, June 1979, summa cum laude

Research Interest

Dr. Klopfenstein studies the adoption and diffusion patterns for emerging media technologies. He is currently the Director of the Dowden Center for New Media Studies. The Dowden Center, currently focusing on interactive television, serves through its teaching, research and community outreach services related to new media and the future of mass communication institutions, audiences, and delivery systems.

Miscellaneous

Klopfenstein was co-principal investigator for a $1.8 million U.S. Department of Education project to develop a web-based system to introduce innovative teaching practice and has paricipated in additional research projects supported by Battelle Memorial Institute, Ameritech, The National Association of Broadcasters, OCLC, and the state of Ohio among others. Klopfenstein is co-editor of Cyberpath to Development: Issues and Challenges in South Asia (Greenwood Press, 2002) and co-author of The Whole Internet: Academic Edition (O'Reilly, 1996). He has published articles related to new technologies in the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, the Journal of Media Economics, and the Journal of the American Society for Information Science. Recent book chapters appear in Communication Technology Update (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002) and Handbook of Communications Technologies: The Next Decade (CRC Press, 2000).