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Jeff
Ballinger
Director, Press for Change
E-mail: jeffreyd@mindspring.com
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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
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Peter
Dahlgren
Media and Communication Studies
Lund University, Sweden
E-mail: Peter.Dahlgren@soc.lu.se
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Robert
M. Entman
Professor, Department of Communication
Co-Director, Center for Information Society Studies
NC State University
E-mail: entman@ncsu.edu
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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
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Dan
Merkle
Merkle Siegel & Friedrichsen, PC
Center for Social Justice
E-mail: danm@msfseattle.com
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Phil
Noble
Director of Phil Noble Associates and Politics Online
E-mail: phil@politicsonline.com
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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
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Margaret
Scammell
London School of Economics and Political Science
E-mail: M.Scammell@lse.ac.uk
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Philip
Schlesinger
Professor, University of Stirling
Stirling Media Research Institute
E-Mail: p.r.schlesinger@stir.ac.uk
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Doug
Schuler
Part-time Faculty, Evergreen State College
Program Director, Public Sphere Project (Computer Professionals for
Social
Responsibility)
E-mail: douglas@scn.org
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Sidney
Tarrow
Maxwell Upson Professor of Government
Departments of Government and Sociology,Cornell
E-mail: sgt2@cornell.edu
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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
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Thierry
Vedel
Senior Research Fellow (CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research)
E-mail: vedel@msh-paris.fr
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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 |
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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.).
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.).
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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
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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
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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.
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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:
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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
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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.
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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.
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