Resume

• 2002

  Nanyang Technological University

  Developed research program focusing on social

  political

  and cultural impact of new media in Asia; developed visiting fellows program

  developed international network of collaborators.

  Nanyang Technological University

• 2000

  National University of Singapore

  Associate Professor

  Department of Communication (College of Liberal Arts)

  Texas A&M University

  Texas A&M University

  Bryan/College Station

  Texas Area

  Professor

  Bryan/College Station

  Texas Area

  The Global Faculty Ambassador-Asia role provides consultation and service to develop educational and research partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region.

  Global Faculty Ambassador-Asia

  Texas A&M University

  Stillwater

  OK

  The Dean of the School of Global Studies and Partnerships supervises the continued development

  implementation

  and coordination of global education and research projects for the university. Duties include oversight of the Study Abroad/National Student Exchange Office

  International Students and Scholars

  the Center for International Trade and Development

  English Language Institute

  and the academic programs of the School of Global Studies and Partnerships.

  Associate Provost and Dean

  School of Global Studies and Partnerships

  Oklahoma State University

  Helped to develop new academic program and curriculum in Communication and New Media

  co-organizer of the 2001 Internet Political Economy Forum.

  National University of Singapore

  Texas A&M University

  As Executive Director of Global Partnerships

  Dr. Kluver coordinated a staff that developed international partnerships

  agreements

  and research and educational collaborations. He answered to the Vice Provost of Academic Affairs.

  Executive Director of Global Partnerships

  Bryan/College Station

  Texas Area

  International Communication Association

  Mandarin

  Spanish

  Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in Media Ecology

  Media Ecology Association Walter Benjamin Award

  2003\n\nAlan R. Kluver is the recipient of the Walter Benjamin Award for Outstanding Article in the Field of Media Ecology. The Media Ecology Association (MEA) announced the award at its fourth annual convention in Hampstead

  New York

  on June 5-8. \n\nKluver was selected for his article \"The Logic of New Media in International Affairs

  \" published in the December

  2002 issue of New Media and Society. In the piece

  Kluver argues that foreign policy is constrained by public opinion

  which is in turn affected by media portrayals of other nations. Further

  the article proposes a conceptual scheme and criterion for determining the impact of media format in presenting international issues. \n\nThe Walter Benjamin Award is named after Walter Benjamin

  a German literary and social critic who made seminal contributions to the humanities.

  Media Ecology Association

  Faculty of Arts Visiting Fellow

  Visiting Fellow in Department of Media and Communication Studies

  University of Canterbury.

  University of Canterbury

  Christchurch

  New Zealand

  1999 Outstanding Book Award

  Randy Kluver and John Powers are the recipients of the Outstanding Book Award of the International and Intercultural Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association. The IICD announced the award at its annual convention in Seattle

  Washington

  on November 10

  2000. \n\nKluver and Power's book

  Civic Discourse

  Civil Society

  and Chinese Communities was selected for the Outstanding Book Award

  for books published in 1999. In the book

  Kluver and Powers argue that civil society is formed through discourse-that is

  it is through a group's discursive practices that the society \"discovers\" itself and formulates its values

  character

  and ultimately

  its ethos. The volume contains essays by a number of scholars exploring this essential conviction in a variety of contexts. \n\nThe International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) promotes research and teaching in intercultural

  international

  and intergroup communication. \nRandy Kluver is an Associate Professor at Oklahoma City University

  and John Powers is Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.

  National Communication Association

  International and Intercultural Division:

  Fallon-Marshall Distinguished Lecture

  The annual Fallon-Marshall lectures series provides the Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts with the opportunity to showcase exciting scholarship

  innovative research

  and creative activities taking place within the college. The presenter is competitively chosen on the basis of submitted proposals. For 2015

  Dr. Randy Kluver

  associate professor of communication

  was chosen to deliver the Fallon-Marshall lecture

  and will discuss his research in the geopolitical consequences of new media. The lecture is entitled “Crowd-sourced Espionage? There’s an App for That: The Geopolitics of New Media”

  College of Liberal Arts

  Fulbright Scholar

  U.S.-Korea International Education Administrators Seminar: \nAttend meetings with representatives from Korean universities

  private-sector agencies and organizations and selected government agencies. Visit university international offices. Respond to questions about U.S. higher education. The first week was spent in Seoul and the second week grantees visited institutions outside Seoul.

  J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board

• 1993

  Oklahoma City University

  Developed undergraduate program in communication studies

  developed new graduate level program in International Studies.

  Oklahoma City University

  Texas A&M University

  College Station

  TX

  As director and then executive director of the Institute for Pacific Asia

  Dr. Kluver coordinated university teaching

  research

  and outreach efforts in the Asia Pacific region. This included developing the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University

  developing new study abroad and research collaborations in Asia

  and supporting on campus internationalization efforts.

  Director/Executive Director

  Nanchang

  Jiangxi

  Peoples Republic of China

  Visiting teacher for undergraduate and graduate courses.

  Visiting Lecturer

  Jiangxi Normal University

• 1990

  Ph.D.

  Communication

• 1988

  MA

  Communication

• 1982

  Bachelor of Arts

  President's Leadership Class\nUniversity Scholars Program

  Communication

  University of Oklahoma

• 1978

  Clinton High School

  Clinton

  Oklahoma

• Editing

  Politics

  Research

  Program Management

  Curriculum Development

  Nonprofits

  new media

  Volunteer Management

  Curriculum Design

  International Education

  University Teaching

  Higher Education

  Asian Politics

  Intercultural Communication

  Lecturing

  Political Communication

  International Relations

  Teaching

  New Media

  Qualitative Research

  How media outlets from around the world are reacting to the presidential campaign

  hen Donald Trump repeatedly claims the election is “rigged

  ” it doesn’t just undermine voter confidence at home. It can also hurt the country’s standing around the world

  where people have been closely following the presidential race. Because of the United States’ predominant role in geopolitics and global economics

  foreign governments and their citizens scrutinize the candidates and their positions

  which can hint at future American policies. The campaign also acts as a snapshot of American democracy. In order to assess what the world has been thinking about the ongoing election

  we’ve been tracking global media coverage via 60 different news outlets in regions that represent over 1.5 billion people. Using the Media Monitoring System

  which captures and translates foreign language content

  we’re able to harvest large amounts of news media from multiple languages and read machine-generated translations.

  How media outlets from around the world are reacting to the presidential campaign

  Kong Chong Ho

  The internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context

  and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications infrastructure

  government policies

  cultural and social values

  and economic realities. The combination of original research

  theoretical innovation and detailed case studies make this an important book for scholars and students in Asian studies

  media studies

  communication studies and sociology.

  Asia.com: Asia Encounters the Internet

  This article argues that data-driven research in global media has not kept up\nwith the inherent interest in internationalization due to a number of factors

  \nincluding access to global media and the lack of foreign language skills among\nmany media researchers. Thus

  the field still remains focused on analysis of\nWestern media

  leading to misunderstanding the geopolitical impact of global\nmedia. The article explores emerging media monitoring technologies which\nhave arisen out of developments in natural language processing and machine\ngenerated translation. Finally

  the article explores innovative research programs\nthat utilize these technologies for global media research and education.

  The Limits of Language: Digital technologies and new methodologies for global media research

  John Powers

  The purpose of this volume is to bring together a set of chapters that investigate the communication practices through which Chinese societies are creating their civil foundations for the next millennium. Civic Discourse

  Civil Society

  and Chinese Communities

  reflects both the emphasis on analyzing specific discursive practices in particular Chinese societies and on understanding the role that discursive practices play in the development of civil society more generally.

  Civic Discourse

  Civil Society

  and Chinese Communities

  Kirsten A. Foot

  Nicholas W. Jankowski

  In 2003

  I formed a collaborative effort with other international scholars to develop the “International Internet and Elections Project

  ” which grew from a handful of scholars to a group of 30 academics from 21 nations. This work was published in 2007 as the first comparative analysis of the political use of the Internet

  and has since widely become recognized as the first and to my knowledge

  only

  comparative analysis of the internet’s political impact across national boundaries that employed a common conceptual framework and methodology.

  The Internet and National Elections: a comparative study of web campaigning

  The reform program of Deng Xiaoping in the People's Republic of China constitutes one of the most significant political and social change programs in recent history. A singularly important question arises from this experiment: How does a nation implement a stock market and call it Marxism? This book answers this question by examining the official discourse bridging the gap between the reform policies and orthodox Marxism. Focusing on Chinese Communist Party Congresses and the Resolution on CPC History

  the author extends recent writings on the reforms by analyzing the ways in which the Chinese leadership justified the reforms

  in the face of social and economic turmoil

  such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement.

  Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms: A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy

  Oversaw development and startup of new research center focused on new media technologies in Asia

  including high profile research projects

  faculty recruitment and development

  and positioning of Centre as the premier new media research program in Asia. Developed significant overseas partnerships and collaborations

  including Beijing University

  Oxford

  Harvard

  and other key global institutions.

  Global Networked Media Archive

  The Media Translation System (MTS) is a powerful program designed to translate and archive multi-national media from across the world. Comprised of two systems

  the Broadcast Translation System (BTS) and Web Translation System (WTS)

  the MTS gives the user a global perspective of current events with an easy-to-use user interface and a comprehensive search function of world-wide media spanning three to five languages

  respectively.

  heidi campbell

  Project GO ROTC

  Project GO (Global Officers) is a collaborative initiative of 25 universities that promotes critical language education

  study abroad

  and intercultural dialogue opportunities for ROTC students. Project GO programs focus exclusively on the languages and countries of the Middle East

  Asia

  Central Asia

  and Africa. Randy Kluver is the Principal Investigator at Texas A&M University.

  China-US Relations Conference Executive Committee member

  (2006-2011)

  Served on the Executive Committee of the China-US Relations Conference

  a bi-annual

  high-level conference hosted by Texas A&M University

  The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries

  and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation

  and the Bush School of Government and Public Service

  with close involvement of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Participated in all conference planning

  negotiation

  and execution from 2006-2011. Participants included high level (including Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs and multiple US Cabinet level) government officials from both nations

  as well as educational leaders and faculty from prominent Chinese institutions. Oversaw development of academic elements of conference

  including US-China Higher Education Forum (2007).

  Corps of Cadets Global Leadership Initiatives

  The Corps Global Leadership Initiatives Program is a program designed to build the next generation of leadership skills for the US military

  government

  and business. The program focuses on leadership skills within a context of international awareness

  regional expertise

  and language competence among the cadets at Texas A&M University.\n\nThe Corps Global Leadership Initiatives Program is a partnership between the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M

  the Arabic and Asian Languages Office

  the Study Abroad Programs Office

  and the Confucius Institute.

  Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University

  Led university initiative to establish Confucius Institute at Texas A&M

  one of the first CIs to be hosted by major research universities. Negotiated with Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of Chinese Language International

  and Ocean University of China to establish agreement. Worked to develop partnership with College of Education and Human Development

  College of Liberal Arts

  Office of International Outreach

  and other campus units to develop proposal

  establish management committee

  and community advisory council. Served as Director for five years

  through the end of the first five year agreement with Hanban

  resulting of funding of approximately $732

  000 and in-kind commitments of approximately $500

  000 during that period.

  Chinese Internet Research Conference

  CIRC is the premier gathering of scholars

  researchers and industry players interested in digital trends and developments in the world's largest Internet community.

  Alan R. (Randy)

  Kluver

  Texas A&M University

  Oklahoma State University

  Jiangxi Normal University