American historian and sociologist (1946–2010)
James Ralph Beniger (December 16, 1946[1] – April 12, 2010) was an American historian and sociologist and Professor of Communications and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, particularly known for his early work on the history of quantitative graphics in statistics,[2][3] and his later work on the technological and economic origins of the information society.[4]
- ^ Morgen Witzel (2005) Encyclopedia of History of American Management. p. 30
- ^ Wilkinson, L., Wills, D., Rope, D., Norton, A., & Dubbs, R. (2006). The grammar of graphics. Springer.
- ^ Friendly, Michael, and Daniel J. Denis. "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization." Seeing Science: Today American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008).
- ^ Frank Webster. Theories of the information society. Routledge, 2014.