Jorge Reina Schement

Who is Jorge Reina Schement?

Jorge Reina Schement, Ph.D., is the current dean of the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies. Schement is a Professor II of Communication, Professor II of Latino-Hispanic Caribbean Studies, and Professor II of Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Schement’s research and scholarship address issues in the areas of information policy, global telecommunications, the social aspects of the Information Age, Spanish-language media, and information-consumer behavior. More specifically, he has focused on the social and policy consequences of the production and consumption of information, with a special interest in policy as it relates to ethnic minorities.

Schement serves as the editor-in-chief of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, as well as an editorial board member of: IT & Society, Journal of Media and Religion, Information and Behavior, and Telematics and Informatics.

Schement currently sits on the board of the Center for Media Studies at SCILS, as well as the Advertising Council and the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, among others.

Prior to his appointment at SCILS, Schement was a distinguished professor at Penn State University and a co-director of the Institute for Information Policy at that school. He has been a faculty fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia University since 1987.