June 16, 2021

The Geopolitics of New Media

Randy Kluver is the Associate Provost and Dean of the School of Global Studies and Partnerships, and Professor in the School of Media and Strategic Communication at Oklahoma State University. He also holds the Don and Cathey Humphreys Chair in Global Studies. As the senior international officer for the University, Dr. Kluver’s role is to develop, implement, and coordinate global educational partnerships and manage the universities global strategy. Recently, he has relaunched Oklahoma State’s School of Global Studies and developed a new curriculum, with an emphasis on preparing graduate students for international careers and impact.  

Dr. Kluver has a long record of research on global media, digital and cultural diplomacy, the role of the Internet in Asian societies, globalization, and the political and geopolitical impact of information technologies and new media. He has been one of the first academics to draw attention to the geopolitical consequences of the rise of digital media.  Dr. Kluver’s book Civic Discourse, Civil Society, and Chinese Communities won the Outstanding Book Award from the International and Intercultural Division of the National Communication Association in 2000. His essay “The Logic of New Media in International Relations” received the Walter Benjamin Award from the Media Ecology Association as the outstanding research article in media ecology. 

Dr. Kluver has previously taught at Jiangxi Normal University (China), National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In 2017, he was a visiting fellow in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and in 2012, was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in South Korea. He has published widely in the fields of new media, Asian politics, the Internet in Asian societies, public diplomacy and international communication.