Andrea L. Kavanaugh, a Cunningham Fellow
and Fulbright scholar, is Director of Research for the Blacksburg
Electronic Village (BEV), a project of Information
Systems, at Virginia Tech. She holds an M.A. in Communication
from the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania,
and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Virginia Tech.
As Director of Research for BEV, Dr. Kavanaugh's work
over the past seven years has focused on the use and
social impact of community computer networking. She also
works on the regulation and diffusion of new communication
services in developing countries, particularly, the Middle
East.
Her research has been supported by grants from the
U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as National Science
Foundation. She is currently leading a broadband wire
and wireless Internet project in southwest Virginia for
health and education services.
Her latest books include The Social Control of Technology:
Information in the Global Economy (Praeger 1998), Community
Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia (edited
with Andrew Cohill, Artech House 2000), and The
Wired Homestead: New Views on a Web World (edited
with Joe Turow, in process for MIT Press).
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