Who's Who in Research: Media Studies

This volume of Who’s Who in Research series offers a useful guide for current researchers in Intellect’s subject area of Media Studies. The directory holds the names, institutions, biographies and current research interests of hundreds of leading international academics as well as references to the researchers’ principal articles in Intellect journals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Release date: Jan 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781783201600

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WHO’S WHO IN RESEARCH

MEDIA STUDIES

WHO’S WHO IN RESEARCH

MEDIA STUDIES

intellect Bristol, UK / Chicago, USA

First published in the UK in 2013 by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS 16 3JG, UK

First published in the USA in 2013 by Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Copyright © 2013 Intellect Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 9781841504971

Increasingly, academic communities transcend national boundaries and collaboration between researchers is becoming more and more common. Staying up to date and relevant requires keeping abreast of the international currents of thought in one’s field. But when one’s colleagues span the globe, it is not always easy to know who’s who – or what kind of research they are conducting.

Intellect’s Who’s Who in Research series was designed with the intention of increasing the scholarly community’s self-knowledge and facilitating it to come together and to collaborate. As Intellect has grown as a publisher specializing in the creative arts and popular culture, so, necessarily, has its community of authors. This book series opens up a door to this thriving scholarly community by providing an easy, ‘one-stop-shop’ access to the names and research interests of the leading academics who have published in Intellect’s growing portfolio of journals.

We have split the book series into five volumes, each covering one of Intellect’s main subject areas. This volume features comprehensive profiles of scholars in the area of media studies. Concise yet detailed listings include each academic’s name, institution, a short biography, current research interests and a list of their articles published with Intellect.

Another important feature of this volume is an innovative and user-friendly index, based on the keywords that scholars have used in their articles. By combining the keywords chosen by a community of scholars focused on a specific topic, we hope to offer a taxonomy of keywords for the subject area as a whole, as well as provide a useful method for discovering the people writing on a particular topic, and where that work can be found.

We believe these volumes will be an invaluable resource for scholars, hiring committees, libraries, and would-be collaborators across the arts and humanities.

Masoud Yazdani

Publisher

Tom Abba

University of the West of England, Faculty of Creative Arts, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, BS3 2JT, United Kingdom

Keywords interactivity, narrative, film, ergodic, games

Dr Tom Abba is a specialist in narrative theory and practice. He completed his Ph.D. in interactive narrative at the University of the West of England in 2007, and teaches in the undergraduate media practice programme, the MA Media course and a wider range of courses at postgraduate level. He maintains an ongoing research interest in the grammar of new media and the language of psychogeography and place, and is active in several knowledge transfer projects, working to instigate interactive projects with media organizations across the United Kingdom.

As we might watch: What might arise from reconsidering the concept of interactive film?, Journal of Media Practice, 9.1, 19–27.

Abdel Rahman Abdalla Salih

Al-Zahra College for Women, Department of English Language and Literature, Madinat Al-Ilam, Muscat, P.O. Box 1197, P.C 114, Muttrah, Oman

Keywords media coverage, Iraq, Al-Jazeera, embedded journalists, Arab media

Abdel Rahman Abdalla Salih received a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from Putra University of Malaysia, and an MA in ESL from the International Islamic University of Malaysia, and a BA (Hons) in Arts and Education (English) from University of Khartoum-Sudan. He is currently teaching English at Al-Zahra College for Women, Sultanate of Oman. He is primarily interested in applied linguistics and issues related to discourse analysis, media discourse, translation and lexicography, besides a general interest in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

The Media and American Invasion of Iraq: A Tale of Two Wars, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 2.1&2, 81–90.

Masoud A. Abdulrahim

College of Arts & Science, P.O. Box 7207, Hawally, 32093, Kuwait

Keywords political attitudes, Al-Jazeera, Kuwaiti television, independent and government media, satellite television

Masoud A. Abdulrahim (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) is an assistant professor of mass communication and chair of the general education department at Gulf University for Science & Technology. His research interests include political communication, the Internet and journalism studies in the Arab world.

Winds of change in the Arab world: a comparative look at a political gratification and effects study of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel and Kuwaiti government television, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 1.2, 145–163.

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar

University of Westminster, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, School of Media, Arts and Design, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), Northwick Park, Harrow, HA1 3TP, UK

Keywords Africa, media

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar is a research fellow at the Africa Media Centre in the University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. He has been working for the BBC World Service, on and off, for well over a decade. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Westminster.

The media, politics and Boko blitz, Journal of African Media Studies, 4.1, 97–110.

John Adams

University of Bristol, Department of Drama (Theatre, Film, Television), Cantocks Close, Bristol, BS8 1UP, UK

Keywords screen media, practice research, creative industries, documentation

John Adams is emeritus professor of Film & Screen Media Practice in the School of Arts (Drama) at the University of Bristol, where he taught for many years. He has produced and/or directed over 30 broadcast films and theatre productions, and co-founded and has chaired the Watershed Media Centre (Bristol) and the production company Watershed Television Ltd. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Media Practice, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council media and communications panel for the RAE 2008. He writes and lectures on practice-based approaches to screen media teaching and research. His current interests include film and creative industries policy, space and place in film, and screen acting and performance.

Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 5.1, 5–6.

Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 6.3, 133–134.

Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2, 83–84.

Reviews, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2, 169–.

Conceptual smoke and digital mirrors? Issues in audio-visual (A/V) practice research, Journal of Media Practice, 8.2, 203–220.

UK Film: new directions in the glocal era, Journal of Media Practice, 12.2, 111–124.

Ernest W. Adams

Adams Consulting Services UK, 185 Guildford Road, Ash, Aldershot, GU12 6DT, United Kingdom

Keywords video games, art, video game industry, game design, video game art

Ernest Adams is an independent game designer, writer and teacher, working with the International Hobo design group. He has been in the video game industry since 1989, and is the author of four books, including Fundamentals of Game Design, a widely-used university textbook; and Break Into the Game Industry: How to Get a Job Making Video Games. He was most recently employed as a lead designer at Bullfrog Productions on the Dungeon Keeper series, and for several years before that he was the audio/video producer on the Madden NFL Football product line. He has developed online, computer, and console games for everything from the IBM 360 mainframe to the Nintendo Wii. He is the founder of the International Game Developers Association, and is a frequent lecturer at the Game Developers Conference and many other events.

Will computer games ever be a legitimate art form?, Journal of Media Practice, 7.1, 67–.

Fiona Adams

London College of Communication, University of the Arts, Elephant & Castle, Southwark, London, SE1 6SB, United Kingdom

Keywords Ruby Grierson, practice-based research, documentary film-making

Fiona Adams started her career in broadcasting as a 'pop promo' producer. Then, via Sheffield Hallam University, where she obtained an MA, she directed documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. She is now an associate lecturer in documentary film at the University of the Arts (London), Sussex University and University of Brighton.

The rediscovery of a life less ordinary – A practical application to research, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2, 143–150.

Catherine Adams

University of Alberta, Department of Secondary Education, 347 Education South, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G5, Canada

Keywords business education, hermeneutic phenomenology, communication technologies

Catherine Adams is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, where she teaches computing science and business education curriculum and instruction, philosophical and ethical issues of technology integration in education, and phenomenological research and writing. Her research interests include using hermeneuticphenomenology to examine the mediating influences and pedagogical signifi cances of information and communication technologies and new media in the classroom.

The Poetics of PowerPoint, Explorations in Media Ecology, 7.4, 283–298.

OluwaTosin Adegbola

New Communications Building, 328, 1700 East Coldspring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251, United States of America

Keywords public relations, communications, teenagers

OluwaTosin Adegbola, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Relations and Chair of the Communications Studies Department at Morgan State University. She is also Faculty Advisor for AccessPR and Coach of the Honda Campus All Star Challenge. OluwaTosin Adegbola is the founder of SimpleComplexity LLC, a non-profit public relations consultancy and MIMe, a female teenagers' self actualization programme.

Film Reviews, Journal of African Media Studies, 3.1, 127–137.

Juan Miguel Aguado

Universidad de Murcia, Facultad de Comunicacion y Documentacion, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain

Keywords mass media system, self-reference, self-observation, epistemology, operational coupling, mobile communication

Juan Miguel Aguado is Associate Professor of Communication Theory in the School of Communication and Information Studies at the University of Murcia (Spain). He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and Postgraduate in Social Research by the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). He is a member of the International Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Culture and Knowledge (RC14) at the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Self-observation, self-reference and operational coupling in social systems: steps towards a coherent epistemology of mass media, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 1.1, 59–74.

Daniel Ahadi

Simon Fraser University, School of Communication, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada

Keywords political communication, diasporic media, multiculturalism, representation of Muslims, Orientalism, content analysis, discourse analysis, research methods

Daniel Ahadi is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Communication and a research associate at the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University. His research is focused on the Iranian immigrant communities and their communication infrastructure in diaspora.

L'Affaire Hrouxville in context: Conflicting narratives on Islam, Muslim women, and identity, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 2.3, 241–260.

Ali Nobil Ahmad

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, DHA, Lahore Cannt, 54792, Pakistan

Keywords technology, capitalism, information, journalism, Twitter

Ali Nobil Ahmad is an academic and journalist based in Pakistan. He currently teaches history at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS University in Lahore, and is researching journalism, cinema and the media in Pakistan. He received his doctorate from the Department of History at the European University Institute in Florence in 2008. In 2009, he was awarded the Scott Trust bursary for journalism and received training at The Guardian and Goldsmiths College in London, where he completed an MA in Journalism and contributed regularly to various journalistic publications, including The Guardian. Recent publications include a special issue of the journal Third Text on Cinema and Muslim World, which he guest-edited.

Is Twitter a useful tool for journalists?, Journal of Media Practice, 11.2, 145–155 .

John Akomfrah

Smoking Dogs Films, 26 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ, United Kingdom

Keywords diaspora, postcolonial cinema, black film-making, black audio film collective, smoking dogs films

John Akomfrah, OBE, is one of Britain's leading film-makers, whose feature films and documentaries have received international critical acclaim. Akomfrah came to prominence as part of the London-based Black Audio Film Collective, which he co-founded in 1982. As part of the collective, Akomfrah directed a series of highly acclaimed films including Handsworth Songs (1986) (winner of the John Grierson award), Testament (1988), Who Needs a Heart (1991) and Seven Songs for Malcom X (1993).

Digitopia and the spectres of diaspora, Journal of Media Practice, 11.1, 21–29.

Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid

Keywords telecommunications, policy

Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid was elected Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau by the Plenipotentiary Conference on 14 November 2006 in Antalya, Turkey. He took office on 1 January 2007. Al Basheer Al Morshid has more than 23 years experience in telecommunications in Saudi Arabia and overseas, including two years at the ITU Regional Office in Cairo. As head of the department responsible for telecommunication policy and investment matters at national, regional and international levels, he has extensive experience in telecommunications management and development, as well as in negotiating and formulating international agreements on commercial, operational, maintenance and investment issues. In addition to his role at the national level, Al Basheer Al Morshid played a leading role within regional organizations, acting as Chairman and participating in many conferences in ITU and at other regional and international organizations in the telecommunications sector.

International Telecommunication Union, International Journal of Digital Television, 1.3, 367–371.

Ali Jamal al-Kandari

Gulf University for Science and Technology, College of Arts and Science, P.O. Box 7207, Hawally, 32093, Kuwait

Keywords political attitudes, Al-Jazeera, Kuwaiti TV, independent media, government, satellite television

Ali Jamal al-Kandari (Ph.D., the University of Southern Mississippi) is an assistant professor of mass communication at Gulf University for Science & Technology. His research interests include political communication, the internet and public relations.

Winds of change in the Arab world: a comparative look at a political gratification and effects study of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel and Kuwaiti government television, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 1.2, 145–163.

Arab news networks and conspiracy theories about America: A political gratification study, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 3.1&2, 59–76.

Salam Al-Mahadin

Amman University, P.O. Box 940840, Amman, 11194, Jordan

Keywords women, transgressive, sexuality, drama series, Arab

Salam Al-Mahadin is associate professor of English at Amman University in Jordan. She earned her MSc in Translation and Interpreting and her Ph.D. in Text-Linguistics and Discourse Analysis from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr Al-Mahadin has over 14 years of teaching experience in cultural studies. Her research interests have focused on various aspects of politics of national identity, media studies, women's issues in Jordan and the Arab world and children's literature. She has translated several works into English and Arabic.

Five marriages and a funeral: Constructing the sexually transgressive female on Arab satellite channels, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 7.2, 173–187.

Five marriages and a funeral: Constructing the sexually transgressive female on Arab satellite channels, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 7.2, 173–187.

Ahmed al-Rawi

Sohar University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, P.O. Box 44, Sohar, 311, Oman

Keywords film, video games, Iraqi stereotypes, American propaganda, Gulf War

Ahmed Al-Rawi is an Iraqi assistant professor who has taught Communication, English Literature and Journalism and is currently teaching English Language at Majan University College in Oman. He is studying for his second Ph.D. in Media and Mass Communication from Leicester University and has had papers published in Arab Studies Quarterly, John Buchan Journal, and written chapters of books such as ‘Islam & the East in John Buchan’s Novels’ in Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the 39 Steps (London, Pickering & Chatto Publishers).

Iraqi women journalists' challenges and predicaments, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 3.3, 223–236.

Bader S.M. al-Saud

Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Media & Communications, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, United Kingdom

Keywords sensationalism, Saudi Arabia, tabloidization, Islam, Islamophobia

Bader S.M. al-Saud holds an MA in International Journalism and is currently a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research work is focused on Arab satellite television, media ethics and the coverage of wars and conflicts. He is also a London-based freelance journalist with various established Saudi Arabian newspapers and a regular contributor to a monthly communication and information magazine under the nom de plume Bader bin Saud.

Book Reviews, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 1.2, 187–194.

Friend or Foe? Saudi Arabia in the British Press post 9/11, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 2.1&2, 39–51.

Robert Albrecht

New Jersey City University, Media Arts Department, 2039 Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305, United States of America

Keywords media bias, news reporting

Robert Albrechthad been a workshop leader with the Educational Arts Team in Jersey City, New Jersey for 15 years before leaving in 1997 to teach in the Media Arts Department at New Jersey City University. Albrecht’s book, Mediating the Muse: A Communications Approach to Music, Media and Cultural Change (2005), was awarded the Dorothy Lee Prize for its contribution to 'scholarship in the ecology of culture'.

Reporting the Right Thing An Outline and Reflection on a Drama Workshop Exploring Media Bias in Reporting the News, Explorations in Media Ecology, 7.1, 69–78.

Phil Alexander

London

Keywords justice, moral, cinematic retribution

Philip Alexander is an English-language teacher who has co-edited a number of theological volumes, including A Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought (Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press, 2009). He has undergraduate degrees in both mathematics and theology from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom and is currently studying for a master’s of theology in the field of Contextual Missiology through the University of Wales. His interest is in the interaction between media and theology, with a particular focus on film.

Cinema’s Divine Retribution? An Exploratory Look at On-Screen Justice, Explorations in Media Ecology, 8.4, 299–304.

Darcy Alexandra

Dublin Institute of Technology, Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Room 3048, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

Keywords community art practice, irregular migration, critical pedagogy, narrative, longitudinal digital storytelling, representation, social documentary, creative writing, photography, ethics

Darcy Alexandra is an ABBEST doctoral fellow in the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology. She has studied documentary film-making with the Centre for Documentary Studies, Duke University, and multimedia narration with the Centre for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley, California. From 1987 to 1998 Alexandra worked with Salvadoran refugees, coordinated solidarity delegations to the region during the war, and served as the Coordinator of Institutional Investigation with the Salvadoran Association of Disappeared Children (Pro Búsqueda). She later worked with Mexican and Central American migrants on the US-Mexico border as an adult educator and ethnographic researcher.

Digital storytelling as transformative practice: Critical analysis and creative expression in the representation of migration in Ireland, Journal of Media Practice, 9.2, 101–112.

Ece Algan

California State University, Department of Communication Studies, 5500 University Parkway UH 201–15, San Bernardino, California, 92407, United States of America

Keywords alternative media, talk radio, local media, Turkey, globalization, new technologies

Ece Algan (Ph.D. Ohio University, 2003) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at California State University at San Bernardino. Her scholarly interests range from globalization and digital media, international communication and local and community media to national/cultural/youth identities, modernity, media ethnography and audiences. Her research focuses on the role of local and community media in cultural politics – especially ethnic and religious. She is particularly interested in Kurdish and Islamist media formations in Turkey and the impact of the commercialized and privatized national mediascape on Turkish national/cultural identity and the public sphere. She is the winner of Best Faculty Paper Award at the Global Fusion 2009: Global Media and Communication Conference in October 2009 and the James E. Murphy Best Faculty Paper Award from the Critical Cultural Studies Division of the AEJMC Conference in July 2003.

The role of Turkish local radio in the construction of a youth community, The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 3.2, 75–92.

Valerie Alia

Keywords indigenous media, cultural production, transnational movements, global audiences, New Media Nation

Valerie Alia, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor at Royal Roads University in Canada, and founded the discipline of political onomastics (politics of naming) and studies identities, ethics, arts and media of arctic and indigenous peoples. She is Media Topics series editor for Edinburgh University Press and author of Names and Nunavut: Culture and Identity in Arctic Canada, Media Ethics and Social Change and The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication. She was a journalist and arts reviewer; and Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University and Running Stream Professor of Ethics and Identity at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her biography appears in Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in Canada; and Who’s Who in the World.

Outlaws and citizens: indigenous people and the ‘New Media Nation’, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 5.1&2, 39–54.

Juliann Emmons Allison

University of California, Riverside, Department of Political Science, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92503, United States of America

Keywords communication, political action, information and communication technology, virtual processes, social change

Juliann Emmons Allison is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, where she teaches international political economy, global environmental politics, environmental policy and law and gender and international relations. She is also Director of the Political Science Honors Programme, Co-Director of the Programme on Global Studies, and Associate Director of the Centre for Sustainable Suburban Development.

Globalisation, communications and political action: Special issue introduction, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 4.1, 3–8.

Olivia Allison

Keywords suicide bombers, peace, security, counterterrorism

Olivia Allison is the co-author of Understanding and Addressing Suicide Attacks (Praeger 2007) after researching political and media responses to suicide bombings in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Africa. Since writing that book, she has received an MA from King's College London in International Peace and Security, focusing on international law and politics in 2007. Some of her ongoing freelance and think-tank research projects include counterterrorism, media/communication and terrorism, and the private military/security industry.

Book Reviews, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 1.1, 93–.

David Altheide

Arizona State University, School of Justice and Social Inquiry, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tempe, Arizona, AZ 85287–4902, United States of America

Keywords media logic, politics of fear, discourse of fear, risk assessment, risk communication

David L. Altheide is Regents’ Professor in the Faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University, where he has taught for 37 years. A sociologist, who uses qualitative methods, his work –12 books and over 140 journal articles and chapters – has focused on the role of mass media and information technology for social control. Dr Altheide received the 2005 George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is also a three-time recipient of the SSSI’s Cooley Award, for the best book for the year in 2007 for Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (AltaMira, 2006); 2004 for Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (Aldine de Gruyter/Transaction; 2002); and 1986 for Media Power (Sage).

Risk communication and the discourse of fear, Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 2.2, 145–158.

Gado Alzouma

American University of Nigeria, School of Arts and Science, Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola bypass, PMB 2250, Yola, Adamawa State, Adamawa State, Nigeria

Keywords anthropology, communication technology, globalization

Gado Alzouma is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the School of Arts and Science, American University of Nigeria, Yola. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in anthropology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. His research and publications focus on information and communication technologies for development, on media, as well as on globalization, identities, and politics. Before joining AUN, he was assistant professor in Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey, Niger, where he taught sociology and anthropology courses for many years. He also worked as coordinator, evaluation and learning systems in the Africa and the Information Society Program of the International Development Research Center, (IDRC, Dakar, Senegal) and as a research fellow in the Global Media Research Center of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of several book chapters and articles in refereed journals.

Young people, computers and the Internet in Niger, Journal of African Media Studies, 3.2, 277–292.

Gado Alzouma

American University of Nigeria, School of Arts and Science, Lamido Zubairu Way, Yola bypass, Yola, Adamawa State, PMB 2250, Nigeria

Keywords Sahel, Sahara, Niger, French media, frames

Gado Alzouma is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the School of Arts and Science, American University of Nigeria, Yola. He is the holder of a Ph.D. in anthropology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. His research and publications focus on information and communication technologies for development, on media, as well as on globalization, identities, and politics. Before joining AUN, he was assistant professor in Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey, Niger, where he taught sociology and anthropology courses for many years. He also worked as coordinator, evaluation and learning systems in the Africa and the Information Society Program of the International Development Research Center, (IDRC, Dakar, Senegal) and as a research fellow in the Global Media Research Center of Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the author of several book chapters and articles in refereed journals.

Agrey area: The Nigerien Sahel in the French media, Journal of African Media Studies, 4.1, 61–74.

Bosco Ebere Amakwe

HFSN

Keywords globalization, African women, effect of technology

Sister Ebere Bosco Amakwe, HFSN is from Nigeria. She holds a Ph.D. in social communication from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and is an expert in gender studies. Until recently, she worked as webmaster for vidimusdominum.org, a site belonging to the International Union of Superiors General (UISG-women) and Union of Superiors General (USG-men). She has also worked as an assistant manager and network administrator of Greenstone Web site at the Salesian International News Agency, in Rome. She contributed to the establishment of the Salesian Digital Library (SDL), editing and documenting thousands of online Salesian publications, and facilitated research. Sister Amakwe has published many articles on women and the media in Africa. She is presently working on a book about factors influencing the mobility of women to leadership and management positions in the Nigerian media industry.

Globalization and African Women: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Effect of the Information and Communication Technology on Women, Explorations in Media Ecology, 6.4, 271–290.

Rod Amner

Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa

Keywords journalism, writing, books

Rod Amner is a lecturer in the School of Journalism at Rhodes University. His research interests are alternative journalisms (public/civic, development, citizen, radical) and subaltern public spheres, the relationship between South African media and political processes and issues in journalism education.

Film Review, Journal of African Media Studies, 1.2, 335–.

Avelino Amoedo

Universidad de Navarra, Facultad de Comunicacion, Campus Universitario, Pamplona, 31080, Spain

Keywords radio music, radio online, radio and young people

Avelino Amoedo teaches in the areas of radio production and radio studies at the School of Communication of the University of Navarra, Spain. He has a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Navarra. He is also the Academic Secretary of the Department of Journalism Projects of the School of Communication. His research focuses on radio production, radio journalism and also on the structure of the radio stations and networks in Spain (history, legal regulation, etc.). Today, he researches the communication strategies of the radio stations and the web in the context of the project called Convergence & Evolution of Online Media in Spain. Multiplatform and Journalism Integration, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain. Avelino Amoedo is a member of the European Communication Research and Education Organization (ECREA).

An analysis of the communication strategies of Spanish commercial music networks on the web: los40.com, los40principales.com, cadena100.es, europafm.es and kissfm.es, The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, 6.1, 5–20.

Dee Amy-Chinn

University of Stirling, Department of Film, Media & Journalism, Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom

Keywords representation of gender, Semenya controversy, feminism

Dee Amy-Chinn is a lecturer in Film, Media & Journalism at the University of Stirling and a member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. Her research focuses on the representation of non-standard gender and sexualities, and has been published in a range of journals including Women: A Cultural Review, uropean Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Media Studies and Theology & Sexuality.

Doing epistemic (in)justice to Semenya, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6.3, 311–326.

Nicole C. Andersen

J. D. Pepperdine University, USA, Kreindler & Kreindler, LLP, 707 Wilshire Blvd. Ste. 4100, Los Angeles, CA 90017

Keywords civil liberty restrictions, identity-based policies, media framing, media priming, Muslims in the media

Nicole C. Andersen has a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a J.D. from Pepperdine University, School of Law. She currently is an associate at the aviation law firm, Kreindler & Kreindler, LLP in Los Angeles, CA.

On-screen Muslims: Media priming and consequences for public policy, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 4.2–3, 203–221.

David L. Andrews

University of Maryland-College Park, Department of Kinesiology, HHP Building, College Park, United States of America

Keywords nationalism, sport, ethnography, corporate media, American Broadcast Company

David L. Andrews is an associate professor in the Physical Cultural Studies programme, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland-College Park. His research focuses on the critical analysis of contemporary sport culture specifically the commercialization and corporarization of sport; sport and celebrity culture; the Olympic Games and other media sport spectacles; sport and globalization; and sport and the built environment.

Revisiting the networked production of the 2003 Little League World Series: narrative of American innocence, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 4.2, 183–202.

Ian Angus

Simon Fraser University, Department of Humanities, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada

Keywords philosophy, truth, expression, rhetoric, democracy

Ian Angus emigrated to Canada from England in 1958. His Ph.D. (1980) is from the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University (Toronto). He is currently Professor of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of A Border Within (1997), Primal Scenes of Communication (2000), (Dis)figurations: Discourse/Critique/Ethics (2000), Emergent Publics: An Essay on Social Movements and Democracy (2001), Identity and Justice (2008), and Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment (2009) as well as many essays on technology, ethics, social theory, and phenomenology.

Media, expression and a new politics: eight theses, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 1.1, 89–92.

Miriyam Aouragh

University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, United Kingdom

Keywords online resistance, transnationalism, everyday life, cyber intifada, Internet activism

Miriyam Aouragh studied Social Science at the Vrije Universiteit (VU, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and has an MA (1999) with semesters at Goldsmiths, University of London, in the faculty of Anthropology and Sociology. She also completed a Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis titled: Palestine Online: Cyber Intifada and the construction of a Virtual Community 2001–2005. Miriyam is currently a Rubicon post-doc researching Internet activism in the Arab at the Oxford internet Institute at Oxford University.

Introduction, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 1.2, 107–108.

Everyday resistance on the internet: the Palestinian context, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 1.2, 109–130.

Nashat A. Aqtash

Birzeit University, Media Department, P.O. Box 14, Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine

Keywords Hamas, opinion leaders, source of information, Palestinian media, credibility, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestine

Nashat A. Aqtash received his MSc and Ph.D. in Advertising from the University of Santo Thomas, Manila, Philippines (1987–1991). He worked as a visiting assistant professor for the Public Relations Department at the University of Sharja in the United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2009. He is currently the head of the Media Department at Birzeit University. From 1992 to 1998, Dr Aqtash worked for the Media Department at the Islamic University in Gaza (and was Chairman of the Department between 1992 and 1995). His research interests are in advertising, campaign management and political communication.

Credibility of Palestinian media as a source of information for opinion leaders, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 3.1&2, 121–136.

Janni Aragon

University of Victoria, Political Science, PO Box 3045, Victoria, British Columbia, V8N 5S2, Canada

Keywords information and communication technology, social media, Ladyfest, Riot Grrrl, feminism

Janni Aragon (BA/MA San Diego State University, MA/Ph.D. UC Riverside) is a sessional instructor of Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Victoria. She has taught American Politics, Political Theory, Gender and Politics, Feminist Theory, Gender and International Relations, Model United Nations Simulation, Internship in Political Science, as well as numerous Women's Studies courses at the University of Victoria and San Diego State University. She is interested in feminist methodology, women and technology, feminisms and women and politics. Dr Janni Aragon is the 2010–11 President of the Caucus for Women and Gender Justice for the Western Political Science Association (WPSA). Aragon is also the Chair of the Teaching, Research, and Professional Development section for the 2011 conference to be held in San Antonio, Texas.

The ‘Lady’ revolution in the age of technology, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 4.1, 71–85.

Elena Aristodemou

Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute, Elena Aristodemou, 5 Promitheos, Lefkosia, 1065, 1065, Cyprus

Keywords privacy, social networking sites, Safer Internet, online communications, youth

Elena Aristodemou has a BS in psychology (Monash University, Australia) and MSc in psychological research methods from the Open University of United Kingdom. She is Coordinator of the Safer Internet Hotline in Cyprus, member of EU Kids online team and Coordinator of the Inetrisks project.

Disclosure of personal and contact information by young people in social networking sites: An analysis using Facebook™ profiles as an example, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6.1, 81–101.

Teaching Internet safety in virtual environments, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 7.1, 67–76.

Chris Armstrong

University of the Witwatersrand, LINK Centre, Graduate School of P&DM, P.O. Box 601, Wits, 2050, South Africa

Keywords digital video broadcasting-terrestrial, South Africa, television, digital migration, digital terrestrial television

Chris Armstrong is Visiting Research Fellow at the LINK (Learning, Information, Networking, Knowledge) Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Digital turmoil for South African TV, International Journal of Digital Television, 2.1, 7–29.

Karen Arriaza Ibarra

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Audiovisual Communication and Advertising I, Spain

Keywords ICTs, cultural industries, media structure, commercial television, public television, private television, Spain

Karen Arriaza Ibarra is Professor in Audiovisual Communication and also International Relations Coordinator at the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising I at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is co-author of many articles and books regarding media structure, media policies and organization of public and private European media, including Cultural Industries: the Nordic model as a reference for Spain (2011), The Changing Media Business Environment (2008), ICTs in the Economy of Knowledge (2008) The Information Society in the Nordic Countries (2009). She is also an active participant in international congresses and seminars all over the world. She is an active member of the following international organizations: IAMCR (where she also is member of the Executive Board), ECREA, EMMA, AE-IC and SLCS, and has reviewed articles for the International Journal of Communication (IJoC) and Scandinavian Political Studies.

The promotion of public interest through new policy initiatives for public television: the cases of France and Spain, Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 1.2 | Guest Editors: Steven Barnett & Maria Michalis, University of Westminster, 267–282.

Aysu Arsoy

Eastern Mediterranean University, Promitheos 5, Nicosia, 1065, Cyprus

Keywords privacy, social networking sites, Safer Internet, online communications, youth

Dr Aysu Arsoy holds a BS and MS degree in Information Technology, and Computer Science from the Istanbul Technical University, and a Ph.D. in Visual Communication Design from the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). Currently, she is lecturer at EMU, Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Department.

Disclosure of personal and contact information by young people in social networking sites: An analysis using Facebook™ profiles as an example, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 6.1, 81–101.

Lee Artz

Purdue University Calumet, Department of Communication, 169th St Hammond, IN 46323, United States of America

Keywords Venezuela, international communication, globalization, TeleSUR, horizontal communication

Lee Artz (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Purdue University Calumet. He has written numerous articles on media and international communication for a variety of journals. His books include Bring Em On! Media and Power in the Iraq War (2004), The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony (with Yahya Kamalipour, 2003), Public Media and the Public Interest (with Michael McCauley, Eric Petersen and Dee Dee Halleck, 2002), Communication and Democratic Society (2001) and Cultural Hegemony in the United States (with Bren Murphy, 2000).

Commentaries, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2.2, 225–232.

Reviews, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 3.1, 99–.

Daniel Ashton

Bath Spa University, Department of Film and Media Production, Newton Park Campus, Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BN, United Kingdom

Keywords media industries, creative labour, critical media practice

Daniel Ashton is Senior Lecturer in Media Communications at Bath Spa University. His research interests include media industries and work, critical media literacy, and higher education pedagogy. He completed his doctorate (Lancaster University) on the UK creative industries economic vision and the development of students as ‘industry-ready talent’. He has recently published work on higher education and digital games industry intersections in Journal of Education and Work and Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education, creative economy policy in Journal of Cultural Economy, and media work and user-generated content in Convergence and Information Technology & People.

Thinking with games: exploring digital gaming imaginaries and values in higher education, Journal of Media Practice, 10.1, 57–68.

Judith Aston

University of the West of England, Faculty of Creative Arts, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, BS3 2JT, United Kingdom

Keywords new media, interactive narrative, documentary, spatial montage, juxtaposition

Judith is a specialist in digital media practice and cross-cultural communication. She holds a Ph.D. in computer-related design from the Royal College of Art and an MA in the social sciences from the University of Cambridge. Her teaching and research interests look at the inter-relationships between sound, text and image within digital media and at the possibilities of digital media for communicating multiple points of view. She began producing digital work with the BBC and Cambridge University in the mid-1980s and has worked across academia and industry ever since. This includes work with Apple Computing, IBM, the BBC, Virgin Publishing, Cambridge Multimedia, Oxford University, the University of Kent and the University of Colorado. She has also been a new media consultant to the Soros Open Society Institute in Budapest and the recipient of an AHRC small research grant.

Voices from the Blue Nile: Using digital media to create a multilayered associative narrative, Journal of Media Practice, 9.1, 43–51.

Sarah Atkinson

Keywords stereoscopic 3D cinema, stereoscopic 3D storytelling, stereography, Holographic 3D, depth cues

Dr Sarah Atkinson is principal lecturer in broadcast bedia at the University of Brighton, UK. She is also an audio-visual arts practitioner, undertaking practice-based explorations into new forms of fictional and dramatic storytelling in visual and sonic media. She is particularly interested in multi-linear and multi-channel aesthetics, her own multi-screen interactive cinema installation ‘Crossed Lines’ has been exhibited internationally, as has her surround sound and hypersonic installation ‘auditoryum’ (a collaboration with Marley Cole).

Stereoscopic-3D storytelling – Rethinking the conventions, grammar and aesthetics of a new medium, Journal of Media Practice, 12.2, 139–156.

Thomas Austin

University of Sussex, School of Media, Film and Music, Silverstone Building, , Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RQ, UK

Keywords Black Sun, masculinity, disability, documentary

Thomas Austin is senior lecturer in Media and Film at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Watching the World: Screen Documentary and Audiences (2007) and Hollywood, Hype and Audiences (2002), and co-editor of Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices (2008) and Contemporary Hollywood Stardom (2003).

Review, Journal of Media Practice, 10.1, 91–92.

Philip J. Auter

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Communication, Burke-Hawthorne Hall, Room 135, P.O. Box 43650, Lafayette, Texas, LA 70504, United States of America

Keywords classified ads, rich media, online advertising, uses and gratifications, commercial websites

Philip J. Auter, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research interests include international and multicultural media issues. He was recently the co-recipient of a grant from the USAID Middle East Partnership Initiative.

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