Randy Kluver  

Randolph Kluver is Director of the Institute for Pacific Asia and a Research Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.  Previously, he was Executive Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre, and an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Kluver earned an undergraduate degree in Communication from the University of Oklahoma, a master's degree from California State University in Los Angeles and a doctorate from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.  He has been on the faculty at Oklahoma City University, Jiangxi Normal University in China, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has published over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and is the author, editor, or co-editor of four books.

Dr. Kluver is one of the principal investigators of the international "Internet and Elections" project, a comparative analysis of the use of the Internet in the 2004 election cycle.  This work can found in the recently published book by Routledge, “The Internet and National Elections – A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning”, which Dr. Kluver co-edited. He also is the co-founder and co-moderator of the Chinese Internet Research listserve, a mailing list that was identified by Foreign Policy magazine as a “website changing the world.” He also serves on the editorial boards of New Media and Society and Chinese Media Research, and the Executive Board of the Association of Internet Researchers.

Dr. Kluver’s current research interests include the role of the Internet in Asian societies, Asian political communication, globalization, and the political and social impact of information technologies. His most recent book, Asia.com: Asia Encounters the Internet, was published in 2003 by RoutledgeCurzon. He is the author of Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms: A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy (State University of New York Press, 1996). His co-edited book, Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities, received the Outstanding Book Award from the International and Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association in 1999. His article, The Logic of New Media in International Relations, received the 2003 Walter Benjamin Award from the Media Ecology Association for outstanding article in media ecology.

Dr. Kluver is married to Pam and they have two boys.