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Participants
Jerome Bourdon |
holds a PhD in contemporary history, Institute of Political Study,
Paris, 1989. He was a researcher at the INA (National Institute of
Audiovisual Communication) in Paris from 1984 to 1996, then senior
lecturer at the Department of Communications, Tel Aviv University. His
interests include the cultural and political history of television, the
relation between media and collective memory and the semiotics of
television genres.
Sandra Braman |
is Reese Phifer Professor of Telecommunication and Associate Professor,
Department of Telecommunication & Film, at the University of
Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She has published widely in the fields of
communication, economics, information science, political science, policy
studies, and the arts. She has edited several special journal issues,
including the "Horizons of the State" issue of the Journal of
Communication and co-edited Globalization, Communication, and
Transnational Civil Society (Hampton Press, 1996). She is the
author of Change of State: An Introduction to Information
Policy, forthcoming MIT Press.
Anne Ciecko |
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her writings on international
cinema and related topics have been published in a variety of journals
and anthologies.
 Anna Everett | is Associate Professor
of Film Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where
she teaches film, video, and internet studies. She is the author of
Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism
1909-1949 (Duke UP, 2001).
Leonard Foner |
holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab Software Agents group and is the
inventor and developer of Yenta, a free, open-source application that
finds people with similar interests, automatically forms groups of them,
and allows them to talk to each other. Yenta protects individual privacy
via a variety of techniques, including the use of strong cryptography
and no central point anywhere that could be compromised or co-opted.
Foner's work at the Lab has included novel uses of wearable computers
for human sensory augmentation, and he is currently doing research in
secure, privacy-protecting, peer-to-peer agent architectures and is
active in efforts to migrate international human rights NGO's to
open-source software. He has served on several conference program
committees including the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conferences in
'96, '00, '01, and '02.
Ben Goldsmith | is
a graduate of the Universities of London and Queensland, and until July
2001 was a Research Fellow in the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and
Media Policy, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Since July, he
has been an ARC (Australian Research Council) Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, based at the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media
Policy, working on cultural diversity initiatives, and the new
international ecology of audiovisual production.
Steve Jones | is
professor and Head of Communication at the University of Illinois -
Chicago. His books include Doing Internet Research, Virtual
Culture and Cybersociety. He currently serves as Senior
Research Fellow for the Pes Internet and American Life Project and as
President (and co-founder) of the Association of Internet Researchers
(aoir.org).
Brian Larkin |
is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia
University. He has published on flow of Indian films to Africa and on
the materiality of cinematic space. Currently, he is completing a book
on media and the experience of urbanization in Nigeria. He is co-editor
of Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain with Faye Ginsburg
and Lila Abu-Lughod (forthcoming, University of California
Press).
Patricia Mellencamp |
is Distinguished Professor of Art History at UWM, where
she teaches film, video, and the electronic arts. She is the author of
A Fine Romance: Five Ages of Film Feminism (1996), High
Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age and Comedy (1992), and
Indiscretions: Avant-Garde Film and Video (1990). She is the
editor of Logic of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism
(1990).
Toby Miller | is author
and editor of 12 books, the latest of which is Global Hollywood
(British Film Institute, 2001). He edits Television & New
Media.
Susan Ohmer |
is Assistant Professor in the Department of
American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she teaches
courses on television history, global perceptions of U.S. culture, and
media studies. She is the author of a forthcoming book on George Gallup
in Hollywood (Columbia University Press, 2003) and is currently working
on a study of the shift to a corporate environment within the Disney
studio during the 1950s.
Rehmi Post | is a
PhD candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory in the Physics and Media
group. Examples of his pioneering work in the field of e-broidery have
appeared widely in museum collections, including a long-term loan to the
Wellcome Wing of London's Museum of Science. His collaboration with
Terence Riley at New York's Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition "Unprivate
House" garnered numerous awards (including a Silver Medal in I.D.
Magazine's Interactive Media Design Review 2000). He is currently
developing the hardware of the Pengachu pocket Linux server to help
bring affordable open-source/open-hardware computing and wired/wireless
networking infrastructure to users and communities around the
world.
Mark Poster | is Director of the Film
Studies Program at UCI and a member of the History Department. He has a
courtesy appointment in the Department of Information and Computer
Science. He is a member of the Critical Theory Institute. His recent
books are: What’s the Matter with the Internet: A Critical Theory of
Cyberspace (University of Minnesota Press, May 2001); The
Information Subject in the Critical Voices Series (New York: Gordon
and Breach Arts International, January 2001); Cultural History and
Postmodernity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997); The
Second Media Age (London: Polity and New York: Blackwell, 1995);
The Mode of Information (London: Blackwell and Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1990).
Peter Sands | is
Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee.
He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in writing, tutoring,
computer-mediated pedagogy, science fiction, utopianism, research
methods, and rhetorical and literary studies. He participates in many
local and national projects, including the electronic democracy project.
He is currently writing a book on utopian and rhetorical theory.
Rejane Spitz | is an
Associate Professor at the Department of Art & Design at Rio de
Janeiro Catholic University, Brazil, where she coordinates the
Electronic Arts Unit. Her works have been exhibited in Europe, North and
South America. Rejane has been working as a curator of several
exhibitions on Electronic Art, and has written extensively on social and
cultural issues related to the use of computers in developing nations.
She is on the Editorial Board of the journal LEONARDO (MIT
Press), on the International Advisory Committee of ISEA (Inter-Society
for the Electronic Arts), on the Advisory Board of The Digital Art
Museum, and the South American Representative of SIGGRAPH Education
Committee.
Annabelle
Sreberny | is Director of the Centre for Mass Communication
Research at the University of Leicester. She is a widely published
author and editor in the areas of international communication, gender,
and globalization, and is, most recently, the editor of a special issue
on "Mediated Cultures of the Middle East" (Gazette, Vol 63, Nos
2-3, May 2001). Her empirical research has been supported by
organizations such as UNESCO, the BBC, the Broadcasting Standards
Commission and the ESRC. Professor Sreberny has consulted for UNESCO,
the British Council, Article 19, the EU, and the Council of Europe. She
is an elected member of the International Council of IAMCR and an
Associate Member of the ORBICOM Network.
Roger Sugden |
is Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham and Director of
L'Institute (Institute for Industrial Development Policy), a joint
venture between the Universities of Birmingham, Ferrara (Italy) and
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (US). His research interests focus on: transnational
corporations; small firm networking; multinationalism and globalization;
the development of universities; public policy and economic development
in localities, regions and nations.
Timothy Taylor | teaches
in the Department of Music at Columbia University in New York City. His
publications include Global Pop: World Music, World Markets
(Routledge, 1997), Strange Sounds: Music, Technology, Culture
(Routledge, 2001), and numerous articles on various popular and
classical musics.
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