Ted Striphas

Theodore G. Striphas is an American academic and author of The Late Age of Print.

Born in Goshen, New York,¹ Striphas received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.² He is currently a Professor and Chair of Media Studies in the College of Media, Communication and Information³ at the University of Colorado Boulder.⁴ Striphas additionally serves as affiliate faculty in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.⁵ He is the co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies.

The Late Age of Print is Striphas's best-known and best-selling work, published by Columbia University Press.⁶ The book discusses technological innovations in printing and publishing, such as Google's book scanning and Amazon's Kindle.⁷ In addition, The Late Age of Print discusses the inevitability of the Borders bankruptcy and subsequent closure.⁸ The book has received generally positive reviews from The Guardian and other sources.⁹

Striphas's blog continues discussion of the critical and technological issues raised in The Late Age of Print. The blog has received praise from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other sources.¹⁰

He received the 2010 Book of the Year Award from the National Communication Association's Critical Cultural Studies Division for The Late Age of Print.²