Phone: 213.743.2317
E-mail: fbar at usc dot edu
Office: KER 209
Office Hours: by appointment

François Bar is Associate Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He directs the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. During the 2006-07 academic year, he is a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication.

His research interests include comparative telecommunication policy, as well as economic, strategic and social dimensions of computer networking, new media and the Internet. His research has been published in books of collected studies, in policy reports, and in such journals as Information Technologies and International Development, Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, Organization Science, Infrastructure Economics and Policy, Communications & Strategies, Réseaux, and the International Journal of Technology Management. He currently serves on the advisory boards of non-profit Compumentor, and start-ups Clickability and Polaris Wireless.

Affiliations:
Annenberg Research Network for International Communication http://arnic.info
Annneberg Networks Network (ANN)

Bar, François and Namkee Park, "Municipal Wi-Fi: The Goals, Practices, and Policy Implications of the U.S. Case", Communications & Strategies, no. 61, 1st quarter 2006, p.107-125. [PDF]


Bar, François, with Caroline Simard, "From Hierarchies to Network Firms", in The Handbook of New Media: Updated Student Edition, Lievrouw, Leah, and Sonia Livingstone eds., Sage 2006 (pp. 350-363.) [PDF]

International Communication and National Development (CMGT582)
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