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'''Ederyn Williams''' (born 21 September 1946)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/williams-raymond-1921-1988|title=Williams, Raymond 1921–1988 {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref> is a British academic, commentator and writer whose work focuses on [[social presence theory]] and [[technology transfer]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|url=https://warwick.ac.uk/services/ventures/|title=Warwick Ventures: Technology Transfer and Commercialisation Office of The University of Warwick|website=warwick.ac.uk|access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|author=Short, John|author2=Williams, Ederyn|author3=Christie, Bruce|title=The Social Psychology of Telecommunications|date=1976|publisher=Wiley|others=Williams, Ederyn, Christie, Bruce|isbn=0-471-01581-4|location=London|oclc=2585964}}</ref> |
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'''Ederyn Williams,''' born September 21, 1946, is an academic, commentator, and writer. His published work focuses on [[Social presence theory|Social Presence Theory]] and [[technology transfer|Technology Transfer]].<ref>"Why British Universities Rival US in Commercial Field", ''[[The Birmingham Post]]'', March 28, 2007.</ref><ref>Peter Vermij, [http://www.nature.com/bioent/2005/050401/full/bioent858.html European universities weigh spin-offs versus licensing patents], ''Bioentrepreneur'' ([[Nature Publishing Group]]), 14 April 2005. Accessed 18 November 2015.</ref> |
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==Early life and education== |
==Early life and education== |
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Williams is the son of the [[Welsh people|Welsh]] academic and television critic [[Raymond Williams]]. |
Williams is the son of the [[Welsh people|Welsh]] academic and television critic [[Raymond Williams]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://infed.org/mobi/raymond-williams-and-education-a-slow-reach-again-for-control/|title=Raymond Williams and education – a slow reach again for control |website=infed.org|language=en-GB|access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref> Williams earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|DPhil]] in Psychology from the [[University of Oxford]] in 1971.<ref name="LinkedIn">{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/ederyn-williams-2a06194/ |title=Ederyn Williams LinkedIn|website=LinkedIn}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=December 2021}} |
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== Social presence theory == |
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Williams, along with fellow social psychologists Bruce Christie and John Short, developed social presence theory in 1976.<ref name=":13">{{Cite book|author=Short, John|author2=Williams, Ederyn|author3=Christie, Bruce|title=The Social Psychology of Telecommunications|date=1976|publisher=Wiley|others=Williams, Ederyn, Christie, Bruce|isbn=0-471-01581-4|location=London|oclc=2585964}}{{page needed|date=December 2021}}</ref> Social presence theory is defined as "the degree of salience of the other person in the interaction and consequent salience of the interpersonal relationships."<ref name=":13" /> This theory argues that media differ in their ability to convey intimacy and immediacy.<ref name=":13" /> Social presence theory is a key theory in understanding interpersonal communication and has found to be a strong indicator in satisfaction.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Calefato |first1=Fabio |last2=Lanubile |first2=Filippo |title=Advances in Computers |date=2010 |publisher=Elsevier |pages=271–313 |chapter=Communication Media Selection for Remote Interaction of Ad Hoc Groups |doi=10.1016/S0065-2458(10)78006-2 |isbn=978-0-12-381019-9 |volume=78 }}</ref><ref name=":13" /> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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He worked at [[British Telecom]] on a 'viewdata' system called [[Prestel]]. This was similar to the much more successful French system [[Minitel]]. It never got more than 90,000 subscribers. Both systems were replaced by the [[Internet]] and [[World Wide Web]]. |
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Ederyn Williams was a research assistant in psychology at [[University College London]], [[Cambridge University]] and [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref name=B /> He then joined [[British Telecom]] where he managed businesses in information technology.<ref name="B" /> Dr. Williams was briefly the head of the short-lived games company, [[Telecomsoft]], in the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite news |
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|url=https://archive.org/stream/popular-computing-weekly-1986-11-06/PopularComputing_Weekly_Issue_1986-11-06#page/n5/mode/2up |
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|title=News Desk - Beyond is brought from the cold |
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|date=6–12 November 1986|page=6 |
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He wrote an assessment in 1979: ''Strengths and weaknesses of Prestel''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Ederyn |title=Strengths and weaknesses of Prestel |journal=Computer Communications |date=1 April 1979 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=56–59 |doi=10.1016/0140-3664(79)90121-X }}</ref> |
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From 1991 Williams was the Managing Director of Leeds Innovations Ltd.<ref name=B /> In April 2000, Dr. Williams joined the [[University of Warwick]] where he founded an academic department which later became [[Warwick Ventures Ltd]], which branded itself as a [[technology transfer|technology commercialisation]] company. Its activities were claimed by Williams to have been adversely affected by the [[Financial crisis of 2007–08]].<ref>Richard Tyler, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/6860435/University-spin-off-activity-collapses.html University spin-off activity collapses], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 21 Dec 2009</ref> In April 2010, Williams was awarded the [[Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion]] for his role in the development of [[knowledge transfer]] from universities to business in the UK.<ref name=P /><ref>Cara Simpson, [http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/warwick-ventures-boss-ederyn-williams-3065442 Warwick Ventures boss Ederyn Williams wins Queens Award], ''[[Coventry Telegraph]]'', 23 April 2010. Accessed 18 November 2015.</ref> Dr. Williams retired from Warwick Ventures in September 2011.<ref>{{cite web |
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|url = http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ventures/news/quentin_compton-bishop |
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|title = Warwick Ventures welcomes its new CEO |
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|publisher = Warwick University |
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|date = 23 August 2011 |
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|accessdate = 20 February 2014 |
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|archiveurl = https://archive.is/20140220114320/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ventures/news/quentin_compton-bishop |
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In the early 1980s, Williams was briefly the head of the short-lived gaming company, [[Telecomsoft]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1986-11-06|title=Popular Computing Weekly (1986-11-06)|date=6 November 1986}}</ref> |
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== Published Work == |
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The following is a chronological list of published work where Dr. Ederyn Williams was an author or co-author. |
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In 1991, Williams became the Managing Director of Leeds Innovations Ltd. at the [[University of Leeds]].<ref name=":22">{{Cite web|url=https://www.praxisunico.org.uk/news/member-detail.asp?ItemID=458|title=PraxisUnico – Commercialising research – Queen's Award for Director of Warwick Ventures|date=25 February 2014|access-date=30 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225000041/https://www.praxisunico.org.uk/news/member-detail.asp?ItemID=458|archive-date=25 February 2014}}</ref> In 2000, Williams joined the [[University of Warwick]], where he founded an academic department that later became Warwick Ventures Ltd.<ref name=":02"/> The company branded itself as a [[Technology transfer|technology commercialisation]] company.<ref name=":02" /> In April 2010, Williams was awarded the [[Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion]] for his pivotal role in the development of "knowledge transfer from universities to businesses in the UK."<ref name=":22" /> Williams retired from Warwick Ventures in September 2011 and now serves as the Director of Biosite Systems Ltd.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ventures/news/quentin_compton-bishop|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140220114320/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/ventures/news/quentin_compton-bishop|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 February 2014|title=Warwick Ventures welcomes its new CEO|date=20 February 2014|website=archive.is|access-date=30 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="LinkedIn"/> |
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'''1972''' |
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''Factors Influencing the Effect of Medium of Communication Upon Preferences for Media, Conversation and Persons.'' Published by London: British Post Office.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Factors influencing the effect of medium of communication upon preferences for media, conversation and persons.|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1972|publisher=Long Range Intelligence Division of Post Office Telecommunications Headquarters|location=London|language=English|oclc=217166635}}</ref> |
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''Telecommunications and Medicine: Impact and Effectiveness'' was published by Long Range Intelligence Division of Post Office Telecommunications Headquarters.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Telecommunications and medicine: impact and effectiveness.|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1972|publisher=Long Range Intelligence Division of Post Office Telecommunications Headquarters|location=London|language=English|oclc=217164642}}</ref> |
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'''1973''' |
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''The Assessment of Telecommunications Systems -: With Special Reference to Conference Television.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=The assessment of telecommunications systems -: with special reference to conference television|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1973|publisher=Communications Studies Group|location=London|language=English|oclc=217180816}}</ref> |
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''Bell Canada Conference Television System Joint Unit for Planning Research University College'' was published by Communications studies Group.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Bell Canada conference television system Joint unit for planning research University college.|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1973|publisher=Communications studies Group|location=London|language=English|oclc=500413531}}</ref> |
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'''1974''' |
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''Overview of Present and Future Work of the Communications Studies Goup February 1974.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Overview of present and future work of the Communications Studies Group February 1974|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1974|publisher=Post Office Corp.|location=London|language=English|oclc=217197588}}</ref> |
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''A Summary of the Present State of Knowledge Regarding the Effectiveness of the Substitution of Face-to-Face Meetings by Telecommunicated Meetings: Type Allocation Revisited.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=A summary of the present state of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of the substitution of face-to-face meetings by telecommunicated meetings: type allocation revisited|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|last2=Post Office Corporation (Great Britain)|date=1974|publisher=Post Office Corporation|location=London|language=English|oclc=456472785}}</ref> |
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''Brainstorming and Coalition Formation Over Telecommunications Media,'' published by Post Office Corp.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Brainstorming and coalition formation over telecommunications media|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1974|publisher=Post Office Corp.|location=London|language=English|oclc=217180789}}</ref> |
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'''1975''' |
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''Coalition Formulation Over Telecommunications Media'' was published in the European Journal of Social Psychology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1977-08219-001|title=PsycNET|website=psycnet.apa.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-29}}</ref> |
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''Medium or Message: Communications Medium as a Determinant of Interpersonal Evaluation''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1975|title=Medium or Message: Communications Medium as a Determinant of Interpersonal Evaluation|journal=Sociometry|volume=38|issue=1|pages=119–130|doi=10.2307/2786236|issn=0038-0431|jstor=2786236}}</ref> |
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''Field Studies of Telecommunications: A Structure and Some Proposals'' was published by Communications Studies Group.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Field studies of telecommunications: a structure and some proposals|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1975|publisher=Communications Studies Group|location=London|language=English|oclc=217180804}}</ref> |
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'''1976''' |
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''The Social Psychology of Telecommunications'' was published.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/1587669|title=The social psychology of telecommunications|last1=Short|first1=John|last2=Williams|first2=Ederyn|last3=Christie|first3=Bruce|date=1976|publisher=[[ Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]]|isbn=9780471015819|language=English}}</ref> |
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'''1977''' |
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''Experimental Comparisons of Face-to-Face and Mediated Communication: A Review,'' was published in the [[Psychological Bulletin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1978-20651-001|title=Experimental Comparisons of Face-to-Face Mediated Communiction: A Review|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1977|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref> |
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''Research at the Communications Studies Group 1970-1977. A Final Report to the Post Office, Long Range Studies Divisions Group.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Research at the communications studies group 1970-1977. A final report to the Post Office, Long Range Studies Divisions Group|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|date=1977|publisher=Long Range Intelligence Division|location=Cambridge|language=English|oclc=258132762}}</ref> |
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''Teleconferencing: Is Video Valuable or is Audio Adequate?'' co-authored with Roger Pye.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pye |first1=Roger |last2=Williams |first2=Ederyn |title=Teleconferencing: is video valuable or is audio adequate? |journal=Telecommunications Policy |date=June 1977 |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=230–241 |doi=10.1016/0308-5961(77)90027-1 }}</ref> |
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'''1978''' |
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''Social and Psychological Factors'' was published in the [[Journal of Communication]] (Volume 28, Issue 3).<ref>Ederyn Williams, Social and Psychological Factors, ''Journal of Communication'', Volume 28, Issue 3, September 1978, Pages 125–131, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1978.tb01638.x</nowiki></ref> |
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''Prestel:the Post Office Viewdata Service.''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Prestel: the Post Office viewdata service|last=Williams|first=Ederyn|last2=Donnelly|first2=Maureen|date=1978|location=London|language=English|oclc=902372846}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 16:15, 5 January 2022
Ederyn Williams (born 21 September 1946)[1] is a British academic, commentator and writer whose work focuses on social presence theory and technology transfer.[2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Williams is the son of the Welsh academic and television critic Raymond Williams.[4] Williams earned a DPhil in Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1971.[5][self-published source?]
Social presence theory
[edit]Williams, along with fellow social psychologists Bruce Christie and John Short, developed social presence theory in 1976.[6] Social presence theory is defined as "the degree of salience of the other person in the interaction and consequent salience of the interpersonal relationships."[6] This theory argues that media differ in their ability to convey intimacy and immediacy.[6] Social presence theory is a key theory in understanding interpersonal communication and has found to be a strong indicator in satisfaction.[7][6]
Career
[edit]He worked at British Telecom on a 'viewdata' system called Prestel. This was similar to the much more successful French system Minitel. It never got more than 90,000 subscribers. Both systems were replaced by the Internet and World Wide Web.
He wrote an assessment in 1979: Strengths and weaknesses of Prestel.[8]
In the early 1980s, Williams was briefly the head of the short-lived gaming company, Telecomsoft.[9]
In 1991, Williams became the Managing Director of Leeds Innovations Ltd. at the University of Leeds.[10] In 2000, Williams joined the University of Warwick, where he founded an academic department that later became Warwick Ventures Ltd.[2] The company branded itself as a technology commercialisation company.[2] In April 2010, Williams was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion for his pivotal role in the development of "knowledge transfer from universities to businesses in the UK."[10] Williams retired from Warwick Ventures in September 2011 and now serves as the Director of Biosite Systems Ltd.[11][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Williams, Raymond 1921–1988 | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "Warwick Ventures: Technology Transfer and Commercialisation Office of The University of Warwick". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ Short, John; Williams, Ederyn; Christie, Bruce (1976). The Social Psychology of Telecommunications. Williams, Ederyn, Christie, Bruce. London: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-01581-4. OCLC 2585964.
- ^ "Raymond Williams and education – a slow reach again for control". infed.org. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Ederyn Williams LinkedIn". LinkedIn.
- ^ a b c d Short, John; Williams, Ederyn; Christie, Bruce (1976). The Social Psychology of Telecommunications. Williams, Ederyn, Christie, Bruce. London: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-01581-4. OCLC 2585964.[page needed]
- ^ Calefato, Fabio; Lanubile, Filippo (2010). "Communication Media Selection for Remote Interaction of Ad Hoc Groups". Advances in Computers. Vol. 78. Elsevier. pp. 271–313. doi:10.1016/S0065-2458(10)78006-2. ISBN 978-0-12-381019-9.
- ^ Williams, Ederyn (1 April 1979). "Strengths and weaknesses of Prestel". Computer Communications. 2 (2): 56–59. doi:10.1016/0140-3664(79)90121-X.
- ^ Popular Computing Weekly (1986-11-06). 6 November 1986.
- ^ a b "PraxisUnico – Commercialising research – Queen's Award for Director of Warwick Ventures". 25 February 2014. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Warwick Ventures welcomes its new CEO". archive.is. 20 February 2014. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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