List of contributors

Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Professor of Communication Technology and Society, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California

Kalyani Chadha, Director, Media, Self and Society Program, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland

James Curran, Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

Aeron Davis, Senior Lecturer in Political Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London

Michael X. Delli Carpini, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Ben Dickenson, social worker for the homeless in north eastern England

Daniel C. Hallin, Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego

Jonathan Hardy, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, University of East London

David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media and Music Industries, Leeds University

Shanto Iyengar, Chandler Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Anandam Kavoori, Associate Professor, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia

Lina Khatib, Program Manager, Program on Good Governance and Political Reform in the Arab World, Stanford University

Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics and Political Science

Paolo Mancini, Professor, Departimento Istituzioni Societa, University of Perugia

Toby Miller, Professor, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside

Susan Murray, Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Lisa Nakamura, Professor, Department of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois

Robert G. Picard, Professor and Director of the Media Management and Transformation Centre at Jonkoping International Business School

Michael Schudson, Professor, Journalism School, Columbia University

Sue Thornham, Professor, School of Media, Film and Music, Sussex University

Bruce A. Williams, Professor of Media Studies and Sociology, University of Virginia

June Woong Rhee, Associate Professor of Communication, Seoul National University

Yuezhi Zhao, Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication, Simon Fraser University