Jeff Ballinger
Director, Press for Change
E-mail: jeffreyd@mindspring.com

Bruce Bimber
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, Center for Information Technology and Society
University of California, Santa Barbara.
E-mail: bimber@polsci.ucsb.edu

Peter Dahlgren
Media and Communication Studies
Lund University, Sweden
E-mail: Peter.Dahlgren@soc.lu.se
Robert M. Entman
Professor, Department of Communication
Co-Director, Center for Information Society Studies
NC State University
E-mail: entman@ncsu.edu
William Gamson
Professor or Sociology, Boston College and Co-Director,
MRAP (Media Research and Action Project)
E-mail: gamson@bc.edu
Sallie Hughes
Assistant professor
The University of Miami, School of Communication www.miami.edu/com
E-mail: shughes@miami.edu
Brian D. Loader
Director, CIRA
University of Teesside, Middlesbrough
E-mail: b.d.loader@tees.ac.uk
Dan Merkle
Merkle Siegel & Friedrichsen, PC
Center for Social Justice
E-mail: danm@msfseattle.com
Phil Noble
Director of Phil Noble Associates and Politics Online
E-mail: phil@politicsonline.com

Stig A. Nohrstedt
Professor, Ph.D.
Örebro universitet Örebro University
E-mail: stig-arne.nohrstedt@hum.oru.se
Dieter Rucht
Professor of Sociology, Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin)
E-mail: rucht@wz-berlin.de

Margaret Scammell
London School of Economics and Political Science
E-mail: M.Scammell@lse.ac.uk

Philip Schlesinger
Professor, University of Stirling
Stirling Media Research Institute

E-Mail: p.r.schlesinger@stir.ac.uk

Doug Schuler
Part-time Faculty, Evergreen State College
Program Director, Public Sphere Project (Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility)
E-mail: douglas@scn.org
Sidney Tarrow
Maxwell Upson Professor of Government
Departments of Government and Sociology,Cornell
E-mail: sgt2@cornell.edu
Peter Van Aelst
Assistant professor, Department of Communication Sciences
Researcher in the 'Media, Movements and
Politics' group (M2P) of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
E-mail: vanaelst@uia.ua.ac.be
Wim B.H.J. Van De Donk
Centrum voor Recht, Bestuur en Informatisering/Centre for Law, Public Administration and Informatization Universiteit van Tilburg/Tilburg University
E-mail: Wim.B.H.J.vdDonk@kub.nl
Thierry Vedel
Senior Research Fellow (CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research)
E-mail: vedel@msh-paris.fr
Stefaan Walgrave
professor political science, University of Antwerp
Faculty Political and Social Sciences
Department of Political Science, Belgium
E-mail: walgrave@uia.ua.ac.be
 

Jeff Ballinger
Director, Press for Change

Jeff Ballinger is director of Press for Change, a consumer information organization monitoring labor rights issues in developing nations. (See www.nikeworkers.org.).

Bruce Bimber
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, Center for Information Technology and Society
University of California, Santa Barbara.

Bruce Bimber's current research interests address the relationship between evolving
information technology and changes in political organization, collective action, social capital, and political deliberation. In particular, he is interested in the transformation of organizations and networks in the public sphere and the consequences of such changes for democratic processes.

Bruce Bimber's research abstracts and papers are here:

Peter Dahlgren
Media and Communication Studies
Lund University, Sweden

Author of the highly acclaimed book, Television and the Public Sphere (London: Sage, 1995), Dr. Dahlgren has also co-edited (with Colin Sparks) two important collections of critical essays, Journalism and Popular Culture (London: Sage, 1992), and Communication and Citizenship (London: Routledge, 1991). Dr. Dahlgren's current research focuses on the Internet as a journalistic resource and possible basis for the foundation of a new civic culture.

Robert M. Entman
Professor, Department of Communication
Co-Director, Center for Information Society Studies
NC State University



Robert Entman's current research on foreign policy and media, presidential scandals and media, and public opinion. Entman's books include: Mediated Politics: Communication in the Future of Democracy (with Lance Bennett);The Black Image in the White Mind and Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, forthcoming from Chicago.

Robert Entman's website is www.raceandmedia.com.

William Gamson
Professor or Sociology, Boston College and Co-Director,
MRAP (Media Research and Action Project)


William Gamson is currently working on a game simulation --"The Globalization Game" --
that explores strategies by a variety of actors to influence policies affecting globalization processes.

William Gamson is co-director of the Media Research and Action Project (MRAP) . MRAP works with community organizations to expand democratic space in mainstream media, both in terms of opening access and providing greater diversity of messages. MRAP believes that building media capacity requires the same attention as capacity building in any institutional area, e.g., government, the economy, public sector, etc.

Sallie Hughes
Assistant Professor
The University of Miami, School of Communication

Sallie Hughes's research focuses on the news media during processes of political change in Latin America. She is especially interested in understanding the relationship between journalists, the news and the public sphere. Much of her research on these issues is focused on Mexico.

Sallie Hughes is affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies.

Brian D. Loader
Director, CIRA
University of Teesside, Middlesbrough

Brian Loader is director of the Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit (CIRA) at the University of Teesside. Established in 1996 to investigate the social and economic impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on communities, it explores the growth of the Internet and the consequences for community development, economic restructuring and social inclusion.

Dan Merkle
Merkle Siegel & Friedrichsen, PC
Center for Social Justice

Dan Merkle co-founded and/or is on the boards of the following organizations:
Independent Media Center
PlaNetwork Consortium
Independent Progessive Politics Network
Venture Collective
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (Seattle Chapter)

He is launching a new project called the Center for Social Justice in Seattle. The goal is to support the identification of, collaboration between, and effectiveness of various movements (locally and globally).

Dan Merkle helped start the Independent Media Center (IMC) as well as a local criminal justice project which brought together various communities and organizations who are working on or are affected by the criminal justice system. The site for the Center for Social Justice will be up in the next few weeks and will utilize technology from www.smartchannels.net and www.favors.org.

Phil Noble
Director of Phil Noble Associates and Politics Online


Phil Noble is director of PoliticsOnline, a company providing political news and information and online tools for using the Internet in public and political affairs. Most recently, PoliticsOnLine provided extensive analysis on the 2002 elections.

Stig A. Nohrstedt
Professor, Ph.D.
Örebro universitet Örebro University

Stig Arne Nohrstedt is Professor of Media and Communications at Örebro University. His research is primarily concerned with media coverage of major foreign policy issues, as indicated by a selection of titles from his published works: Journalism and the New World Order; From the Persian Gulf to Kosovo-- War Journalism and Propaganda; Enemy Images and Their Impact on the Journalistic Process; The Gulf War with the Media as Hostage; etc.

Dieter Rucht

Professor of Sociology, Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
e-mail: rucht@wz-berlin.de

Dieter Rucht's current research interests include social movements, political protest (including transnational mobilization), public communication, and strategic use of media.

A link to Dieter Rucht's publications (since 1994 ), vita and a more recent bibliography is found here.

Margaret Scammell
London School of Economics and Political Science


Project Board Political Broadcasting, UK Electoral Commission
Director of the Media and Communications programme; Project advisor to the Electoral Commission: Political Broadcasting.

Margaret Scammell's research interests are in political communications, especially political campaigning, the use of marketing in politics, media and elections, governments and news management, and appropriate role of media in democratic countries. Recent publications include: Media, Journalism and Democracy (2000) Ashgate; On Message: Communicating the Campaign (1999) Sage;"'Media and Media Management" in Anthony Seldon (2001) The Blair Effect, Little Brown; and a forthcoming work on political marketing and consumer citizens titled, "Citizen Consumers: towards a new marketing of politics?", scheduled to appear in a forthcoming book by John Corner and Dick Pels (eds.).

Philip Schlesinger

University of Stirling, Stirling Media Research Institute

Philip Schlesinger is working on European public space and the literature of exile.

One of his new projects, beginning January 2003 for three years, funded by the European Commission's Fifth Framework is titled 'Towards a European Public Sphere?' It is part of a programme of work involving 8 universities in 6 countries called CIDEL, 'Citizenship and Democratic Legitimacy in the European Union'.

CIDEL has a website: http://www.arena.uio.no/cidel/index.html

Doug Schuler
Member of the Faculty (part-time studies), The Evergreen State College
Program Director, Public Sphere Project (Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility)


Doug Schuler is interested in how people are shaping information and
communication systems for progressive social change. For that reason he is active in projects that try to understand, exemplify, and motivate work in that direction.

Doug Schuler is currently developing the Public Sphere Project for CPSR. In addition to organizing the "Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing" symposium he is currently coordinating a large, participatory "pattern language" project. He is also currently exploring the idea of "civic intelligence" and how it could be developed, which relates to his work on community networks and the courses on software development in a social context that he teaches at Evergreen (see: Community Information Systems).

Some of Doug Schuler's Papers:
New Community Networks: Wired for Change, Addison-Wesley, 1996

Cultivating Society's Civic Intelligence: Patterns for a New "World Brain"
Journal of Society, Information and Communication, vol 4 No. 2

Computer Professionals and the Next Culture of Democracy,
Communications of the ACM, January, 2001

Community Information Systems: An Educational Model for Engaged Civil
Society, Exploration and Development

Sidney Tarrow
Maxwell Upson Professor of Government
Departments of Government and Sociology,Cornell


Cornell Transnational Contention Workshop
Sidney Tarrow's working papers are attached to the above website. Tarrow's research interests focus on Transnational contention, social movements, and European mass politics.

Peter Van Aelst
Assistant professor, Department of Communication Sciences
Researcher in the 'Media, Movements and
Politics' group (M2P) of the University of Antwerp, Belgium.


Peter Van Aelst's research focuses on social movements and political campaigns with
special interest in the role of the (new) media.

Ongoing projects:
* The antiglobalisation movement
* Demonstration activism (questioning protesters at demonstrations)
* The 2003 election campaign in Belgium
* The personalisation of politics
* Politicians and Social movements online

Peter Van Aelst's online paper is here:

Wim B.H.J. Van De Donk
Centrum voor Recht, Bestuur en Informatisering/Centre for Law, Public Administration and Informatization Universiteit van Tilburg/Tilburg University
Thierry Vedel
Senior Research Fellow (CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research)

Thierry Vedel is involved with the Center for Political Studies (CEVIPOF) / National Foundation for Political Sciences and also teaches at the Institute for Political Sciences of Paris and at the French Institute of Press (University of Paris2)

Thierry Vedel is interested in the idea of digital democracy, the political uses of the Internet
and the governance of the Internet in a context of globalization.

Stefaan Walgrave
professor political science, University of Antwerp
Faculty Political and Social Sciences
Department of Political Science, Belgium


Ongoing projects:
* Political agenda-setting in Belgium
* The political discourse of political parties and populism
* The legitimacy of WTO and EU and the antiglobalisation movement
* Demonstration activism
* New emotional movements. Towards another new kind of movement?
* The 2003 election campaign in Belgium

Stefaan Walgrave's research interest is concentrated in one area: social movements and
mass media and their interaction with institutional politics and decision
making.

For Stefaan Walgrave's working paper on the APSA-proceedings click here.