Via various email lists this morning:

ROGER SILVERSTONE
15 JUNE 1945 – 16 JULY 2006
Convenor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE

The faculty, staff and students mourn the sudden passing of Roger
Silverstone, who died peacefully on 16 July surrounded by his family.
Roger had undergone corrective surgery last week but died of
complications yesterday morning.

This news has come as a profound shock to all of us in Roger’s
Department of Media and Communications, the wider LSE community, and
will deeply affect very many people around the world whose lives were
touched by Roger

Way beyond the usual namechecking, Roger’s work has consistently been genuinely useful in my research, and his name crops up in so many conversations about media, method, communication and play, I really do feel his passing as a loss to the profession. My thoughts are with his family and everyone at the LSE.