Lada Adamic is an assistant professor in the School of Information. Her research interests center on information dynamics in networks: how information diffuses, how it can be found, and how it influences the evolution of a network's structure. She worked previously in Hewlett-Packard's Information Dynamics Lab on research projects relating to networks constructed from large data sets. These projects included mining the medical literature for gene-disease connections, tracking and modeling information flow in E-mail and blog networks, modeling search processes on real-world social networks, and building expertise-finding systems. Recent publications include "The Dynamics of Viral Marketing," "The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog," and "Tracking information epidemics in Blogspace." [top]
Bruce Bimber
is Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and Professor in the departments of political science and communication at UC Santa Barbara Barbara. His research examines the relationship between evolving information technology and changes in human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization, collective action, social capital, and political deliberation. His current projects examine social collaboration and political action in the U.S. and globally. He is author of Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which won the Don K. Price Award for Best Book on Science, Technology and Politics, and Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections (Oxford University Press, 2003, with Richard Davis), which won the McGannon Communication Policy Award for social and ethical relevance in communication policy research. He is also author of The Politics of Expertise in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment (SUNY Press, 1996), and of articles dealing with technology and politics.
Bruce Bimber can be found online at http://www.bimber.cits.ucsb.edu. He has a doctorate in Political Science from MIT, and a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. [top]
Nicholas Carr, an acclaimed business writer and speaker, he is the author of Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, published in 2004 by the Harvard Business School Press. The book, an Amazon business bestseller, expands on the themes in Carr.s celebrated 2003 Harvard Business Review article .IT Doesn.t Matter,. which sparked a worldwide debate on the role of computers in business. Carr.s ideas have been featured in articles in the New York Times, The Economist, Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, and Forbes, among many other publications. In 2005, he was named one of the leading thinkers on information technology by Optimize magazine.
Between October 1997 and May 2003, Carr held top editorial positions at the Harvard Business Review, including executive editor and, for most of 2002, acting editor. Articles he edited won McKinsey Awards as the best articles published in HBR in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. Before joining HBR, he was a principal at Mercer Management Consulting.
In addition to writing more than a dozen articles and interviews for the HBR, Carr has written for the Financial Times, New York Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired, Journal of Business Strategy, The Banker and Business 2.0 and was a business-strategy columnist for the Industry Standard for more than a year. He is currently a contributing editor at Strategy & Business, where he writes a column on innovation. He also writes a popular blog at www.roughtype.com, where he published the much-discussed article "The Amorality of Web 2.0."
Carr has spoken on information technology, innovation, and strategy at Harvard, MIT, Wharton, the Federal Reserve Bank, and NASA as well as at dozens of industry, company, and professional events in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He has also appeared as a business commentator on CNN, CNBC, BBC Radio, and NPR. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University. [top]
Jeremy Crampton
is an Associate Professor of Geography at Georgia State University. His teaching responsibilities for Fall, 2004 include Introductory Mapping & GIScience and Digital Cartography. Recent publications include articles in Progress in Human Geography, Cartographica, The Journal of Geography, chapters in Multimedia Cartography (Springer-Verlag, edited by Cartwright, Peterson & Gartner) and Ethics in Geography (Routledge, Edited by Proctor & Smith). His book The Political Mapping of Cyberspace was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004.
For more information about Dr. Crampton's research, including recent publications and presentations, please see: http://monarch.gsu.edu/jcrampton/
For more information about his courses, including syllabi, see:
http://monarch.gsu.edu/jcrampton/courses/ [top]
Martin Dodge
works at the University of Manchester as a lecturer in Human
Geography. His research focuses primarily on the geography of cyberspace,
particularly ways to map and visualise the Internet and the Web. He is the
curator of a web-based Atlas of Cyberspace and has co-authored two books, Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000) and Atlas of Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley 2001) both with Rob Kitchin.
For more information, see http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/geography/staff/dodge_martin.htm and
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas [top]
Seth Finkelstein is a professional programmer who has donated his
skills and an enormous amount of time to fighting to keep the Internet
free. He attended MIT, earning degrees in both Physics and
Mathematics, and learned about the potential of electronic
communication during its early development. He was the first person to
decrypt censorware ("filter") secret blacklists, and expose what was
actually banned. The material he developed first brought these issues
to public attention, and was the basis for many groundbreaking
articles and reports about censorware. This work then generated
evidence for an early court case challenging censorware in public
libraries. He was a co-founder of an investigatory organization called
Censorware Project (though is no longer associated with it). For
his achievements opposing Internet censorship, he was honored by a
Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He was
primarily responsible for winning one of few Library Of Congress
granted exemptions from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA").
Finkelstein has written extensively on Internet censorship issues, particularly
concerning deep architectural implications of censorware
(e.g. controlling what a person is permitted to read is inimical to
privacy and anonymity), the copyright conflict between technological
protection measures and fair use, as well as some social effects of
search technology. He has testified to the National Research Council
regarding censorware limitations, helped draft a court brief on
censorware and viewpoint discrimination, and tried to provide ways for
technical people to fight the DMCA. He has been an expert witness in a
major censorship court case addressing the conflicts between obscenity
law, community standards, and the global nature of the Internet. His
investigations of Google's behavior have informed the debate about the
political implications of search engine ranking algorithms. [top]
Tony Gentile
is a software and Internet industry veteran with 15 years of experience conceiving, designing, building and marketing consumer and business focused Internet/software products and services.
He has been a corporate development and product management executive and consultant at start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, including: Overture Services (Yahoo!), Adobe Systems, Feedster, Gap, Vivendi Universal, Ofoto.com (Kodak), Knight Ridder Digital, PointCast, WishClick.com, MyFamily.com, Vignette, and WestCode Software.
He is currently VP, Product Management at HealthLine.com, a venture-backed health search start-up in San Francisco, CA. [top]
Alexander Halavais
is an assistant professor of communication at the
University at Buffalo's School of Informatics, where he also directs
the MA in Informatics degree program. His research looks at "social
computing" and its impact on social change, journalism, education, and
public policy. The Online Journalism Review recently referred to
Halavais as one of a number of new "blogologists" who seek to study
the social effects of this use of the internet. Much of this work
examines the intersection of geographical location and online content.
In particular he has analyzed the hyperlinked networks among nations,
cities, blogs, and political websites. He has written a set of tools
(the Informicant package) that may be used to facilitate data
collection from the web.
In addition to teaching about new information technologies, Halavais
teaches communication theory at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
He has recently edited a reader called Cyberporn & Society, and
teaches a course on the same topic. [top]
Saul Hansell
is a reporter covering digital media and electronics for the New York Times. He has covered the business side of technology since 1997 when he became the first reporter at the Times to focus on electronic commerce. Writing mainly for the daily Business Day section, the front page, the Thursday Circuits section and the Sunday Money and Business section, he has covered the rise and fall of the Internet companies as well as the medium's effect on media and commerce. He also contributes regularly to the Market Place column, with analysis of technology stocks. In 2004, his coverage was expanded to include coverage of digital music and consumer electronics. [top]
Eszter Hargittai
is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University where she heads the Web-Use Project. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University where she was a Wilson Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Northwestern, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton.
Her research focuses on the social and policy implications of information technologies with a particular interest in how IT may contribute to or alleviate social inequalities. Her research projects have looked at differences in people's Web-use skills, the evolution of search engines and the organization and presentation of online content, political uses of information technologies, and how IT are influencing the types of cultural products people consume.
In addition to her academic articles, her work has also been featured on CNNfn, the BBC's Web site and several national dailies. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Markle Foundation, the Dan David Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation, among others. In 2006/07 she will be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. [top]
Matthew Hindman
received his B.A. from Willamette University in 1998, and after completing his Ph.D. at Princeton University, he will join department in August 2004. His Ph.D. dissertation examines the impact of the Internet on American politics. [top]
Mary Hodder
is Mary Hodder is the CEO of Dabble, a recently launched company that aims to be ‘ the most comprehensive search and remix community on the planet’, by helping users organize, search, tag, describe, promote, and remix video.
Mary is an information architect and interaction designer specializing in social media sites. She works with companies in open source, photo sharing and "live web" search, was at Technorati, and recently completed a survey of the current state of research and development in academia in the area of New Media for the American Press Institute. She is a blogger at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy).
She completed her Masters at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley in May, 2004. She began her studies at SIMS in 2001 to pursue an understanding of the intersection of information technology, old and new media, journalism, information architecture, intellectual property, privacy, and online communities. She continues to study system design with values, especially privacy for users. [top]
Matthew Hurst
is
Director of Science and Innovation at Nielsen BuzzMetrics. His broad research background has led to a number of key contributions in the areas of information extraction, text mining and computational linguistics. As a blogger (at Data Mining) and a researcher he is in a unique position to observe and report on the technologies that enable the growing fields of business and marketing intelligence, vertical search, data- and text-mining. Matthew has a PhD from Edinburgh Univsersity. [top]
Stacey Lynn Koerner
As Executive Vice President, Director of Global Research Integration, Stacey is a key member of the global research team charged with the integration of Initiative's leading research endeavors. Her broad research skills are applied to a wide array of critical research issues, with an emphasis on understanding consumer media behavior. Widely respected in the industry, she is routinely quoted in trade and consumer media outlets, and regularly appears on CNN and CNBC to discuss media trends. She joined Initiative in August 2001 when TN Media merged with Initiative.
Prior to her promotion in 2003, Stacey held the position of senior vice president, director of broadcast research, in which she was responsible for the company's television research and programming analysis.
Stacey has played an integral role in Initiative's exclusive research partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which has resulted in breakthrough research on a number of key industry issues, including consumer behavior, interactivity and media convergence. In 2002, Stacey delivered the opening presentation at the prestigious ESOMAR (World Association of Opinion and Market Research) conference in Cannes, France, which featured the MIT research.
Before joining TN Media in 1997, Stacey conducted television and print research for D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) while concurrently earning her master's in media studies from New York University. She began her career at Katz Communications as an analyst in programming and local market research before moving on to spend several years at CBS.
Stacey maintains an alternate career as a studio vocalist lending her voice to various projects from original scores for CBS soaps to scratch tracks for leading artists.
Stacey is a former president of the Radio and Television Research Council (RTRC) and is a member of the Media Rating Council (MRC). Stacey was honored in 2005 as a "Wonder Woman" in the cable industry by Multichannel News, one of the cable industry's most prestigious awards. In 2004, she was inducted into the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Advertising Hall of Achievement, the industry's premier award for outstanding advertising professionals under age 40. Stacey was the first research professional to be inducted into the Hall of Achievement in the AAF's history. Also in 2004, Stacey was named "Media All Star" in the research category by Mediaweek. In 2003, she was honored as a "Media Maven" by Advertising Age and was named the most quoted executive in the industry in the publication's annual "Media Talk" survey. In that same year, Stacey was profiled in Crain's New York Business as part of the prestigious "40 Under 40 - New York's Rising Stars" feature.
A graduate of Northwestern University, Stacey lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. [top]
Tony Conrad
is the founder and CEO of Sphere, a blog search engine based on a next generation relevancy algorithm to enable blog readers to discover high quality blogs. In his words, he is "a venture capitalist turned entrepreneur." Prior to Sphere, he was a General Partner at VSP where he led consumer tech and marketing software & services investments. At VSP, he served on the Board of Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo!), Iconoculture and MusicNow (acquired by AOL) and played an active role managing VSP investments in Post Communications (NASDAQ: NTVS) and Stoneyfield Farms (acquired by Groupe Danone). He currently serves on the board of Automattic/ Wordpress.[top]
Mark Monmonier
is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University.s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He teaches courses on map design, environmental hazards, and the societal impacts of mapping, and his research focuses on map design, environmental cartography, the history of cartography in the twentieth century, and the use of maps for surveillance and as analytical and persuasive tools in journalism, politics, public administration, and science. In 2001, he was awarded the American Geographical Society.s O. M. Miller Medal for contributions to cartography. Other honors include recognition by the Association of American Geographers and the Canadian Cartographic Association. His 14 books include Technological Transition in Cartography (1985); Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography (1989); How to Lie with Maps (1991, 1996); Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather (1999); Bushmanders and Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win Elections (2001); Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy (2002); Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection (2004); and From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Names on Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame (April 2006).
Monmonier has been editor of The American Cartographer and president of the American Cartographic Association. He has published numerous papers on map design, automated map analysis, cartographic generalization, statistical graphics, multimedia cartography, map history, and mass communications. He is editor of Volume Six (the Twentieth Century) of the History of Cartography and a member of the National Research Council.s panel on Planning for Catastrophe: A Blueprint for Improving Geospatial Data, Tools, and Infrastructure; his current research projects include a history of cartographic coastlines and their diverse uses in navigation, science, and emergency planning. Monmonier received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1969. [top]
Peter Morville
is widely recognized as a founding father of information
architecture. He co-authored the best-selling book, Information Architecture
for the World Wide Web, and has consulted with such organizations as AT&T,
Harvard, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and the National Cancer Institute.
Peter is president of Semantic Studios, co-founder and past president of the
Information Architecture Institute, and a faculty member at the University
of Michigan. He also serves on the advisory boards of Rosenfeld Media and
the Encylopedia of Library and Information Sciences.
His work has been featured in many publications including Business Week, The
Economist, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter's latest book,
Ambient Findability, explores wayfinding and retrieval at the crossroads of
ubiquitous computing and the Internet. He blogs at findability.org.
Peter Morville is widely recognized as a founding father of information
architecture. He co-authored the best-selling book, Information Architecture
for the World Wide Web, and has consulted with such organizations as
AT&T, Harvard, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and the National Cancer Institute.
Peter is president of Semantic Studios, co-founder and past president of the
Information Architecture Institute, and a faculty member at the University
of Michigan. He also serves on the advisory boards of Rosenfeld Media and
the Encylopedia of Library and Information Sciences.
His work has been featured in many publications including Business Week, The
Economist, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter's latest book, Ambient Findability,
explores wayfinding and retrieval at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing
and the Internet. He blogs at findability.org. [top]
Philip Napoli
(Ph.D., Northwestern University) is an Associate Professor of Communications & Media Management in the Graduate School of Business and Director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University in New York. His research focuses on media institutions and media policy. He is the author of the books Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace (Columbia University Press, 2003) and Foundations of Communications Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media (Hampton Press, 2001), and editor of the forthcoming book, Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics (Erlbaum). He is the author of over 30 articles and book chapters. His work has been published in academic journals such as Telecommunications Policy, Communication Law & Policy, the Journal of Communication, the Policy Studies Journal, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and the Harvard International Journal of Press Politics.
Dr. Napoli's work has been supported by organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Benton Foundation, the Emma L. Bowen Foundation, and the National Association of Television Programming Executives. His research has received awards from the National Business and Economics Society, the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication, the National Communication Association, the International Communication Association, and the Broadcast Education Association. He has testified before Congress and the Federal Communications Commission on media policy issues and has been interviewed in a number of media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, the NBC Nightly News, the Chicago Tribune, and Rolling Stone. Dr. Napoli previously has held academic appointments at Rutgers University and Boston University. [top]
Martin Nisenholtz
was named Senior Vice President, Digital Operations, for The New York Times Company in February 2005. He is responsible for the strategy development, operations and management of The New York Times Company's digital properties, including About.com, whose acquisition was announced in February 2005.
Mr. Nisenholtz was chief executive officer of New York Times Digital from 1999 to 2005. Previously, he was president of The New York Times Electronic Media Company from 1995 to 1999. In that role, he was the founding leader at NYTimes.com. Prior to joining the Times Company, Mr. Nisenholtz was director of content strategy for Ameritech Corporation, where he was responsible for guiding development of new video programming opportunities and interactive information and advertising services. From 1983 to 1994, Mr. Nisenholtz worked at The Ogilvy Group, where he was a senior vice president and member of the operating committee at Ogilvy & Mather Direct. In 1983 he founded the Interactive Marketing Group (IMG), the first full service unit at a major U.S. advertising agency devoted specifically to interactive communication. Mr. Nisenholtz began his career in 1979 as an assistant professor and research scientist at New York University, where he participated on the founding faculty of the Interactive Telecommunications Program and worked on pioneering interactive media efforts in the areas of education, healthcare and public information.
Mr. Nisenholtz received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication in 1979. [top]
Eric Picard
is a senior product planner in the Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions group. He leads a team focused on business strategies for emerging digital media advertising opportunities such as Digital TV, Mobile, Video Games, and Music. Eric is also Microsoft's representative to a variety of IAB committees.
Formerly, Eric was founder and director of product management at Bluestreak, where he oversaw advertising products. At Bluestreak Eric led market research, product strategy, and product development processes. He envisioned the company's transactive rich media products, drove their third-party ad serving and analytics products, and led development of many company technologies.
Eric's been active in most of the critical industry conversations related to technology, including the IAB's Broadband Committee and the Rich Media, and Measurement Task Forces. Prior to Bluestreak, Eric founded 9th Square Inc., and Waterworks Interactive Inc. He writes a monthly column called Using Ad Technology for the Industry Publication ClickZ. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. See
http://www.clickz.com/experts/author/index.php/17413_all for more information. [top]
Markus Prior is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from the Communication Department at
Stanford in 2004. His dissertation won the E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American politics, awarded by the American Political Science Association.
Prior's research focuses on the role of media in American politics and how people learn about politics. He is currently finishing Post-Broadcast Democracy (to be published by Cambridge University Press), a book that examines how broadcast television, cable television, and the Internet have changed politics in the United States over the last half-century. The study shows that the degree of choice between different media content affects political learning, turnout, and aggregate voting behavior. To understand and predict who will learn about politics and go to the polls in our high-choice media environment, researchers need to measure people's media content preferences.
In several ongoing projects, Prior shows that Americans know more about politics than is often assumed, examines the dangers of measuring news exposure in surveys, and develops a measure of visual political knowledge. [top]
Lee Rainie
is the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Since December 1999, the Washington D.C. research center has examined how people.s Internet use affects their families, communities, health care, education, civic and political life, and work places. The Project has issued more than 120 reports based on research on these social issues and important public policy questions such as trust and privacy online, e-government, intellectual property, broadband adoption, and the digital divides. Prior to receiving the grant, he was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. He is a graduate of Harvard College and has a master.s degree in political science from Long Island University. [top]
Jay Rosen
teaches Journalism at New York University, where has been on the faculty since 1986. From 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the Department. He lives in New York City.
Rosen is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals, which he introduced in September 2003. In June 2005, PressThink won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of free expression. He also blogs at the Huffington Post.
In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For?, which was about the rise of the civic journalism movement. Rosen wrote and spoke frequently about civic journalism (also called public journalism) over a ten-year period, 1989-99. From 1993 to 1997 he was the director of the Project on Public Life and the Press, funded by the Knight Foundation.
As a press critic and reviewer, he has appeared in numerous magazines and national newspapers, including The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and others. Online he has written for Salon.com, TomPaine.com and Poynter.org. In 1990 he and Neil Postman (friend, colleague, mentor) hosted a radio show on WBAI in New York called "The Zeitgeist Hour." In 1994 he was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1990-91 he held a fellowship at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University.
A native of Buffalo, NY, Rosen had a very brief career in journalism at the Buffalo Courier-Express before beginning graduate study. He has a Ph.D. from NYU in media studies (1986). [top]
Marc Smith
is a research sociologist at Microsoft Research specializing in the social organization of online communities. He leads the Community Technologies Group at MSR. He is the co-editor of Communities in Cyberspace (Routledge), a collection of essays exploring the ways identity, interaction and social order develop in online groups.
Smith's research focuses on the ways group dynamics change when they take place in social cyberspaces. Many groups in cyberspace produce public goods and organize themselves in the form of a commons. Smith's goal is to visualize these social cyberspaces, mapping and measuring their structure, dynamics and life cycles. He has developed a web interface to the "Netscan" engine that allows researchers studying Usenet newsgroups to get reports on the rates of posting, posters, crossposting, thread length and frequency distributions of activity. This research offers a means to gather historical data on the development of social cyberspaces and can be used to highlight the ways these groups differ from, or are similar to, face-to-face groups. Smith is applying this work to the development of a generalized community platform for Microsoft, providing a web based system for groups of all sizes to discuss and publish their material to the web.
Smith received a B.S. in International Area Studies from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1988, an M.Phil. in social theory from Cambridge University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2001. For more information, see http://www.research.microsoft.com/~masmith,
http://netscan.research.microsoft.com, and
http://aura.research.microsoft.com [top]
Nancy Tellem
oversees all of CBS Entertainment's operations for prime time, daytime, late night and Saturday morning. Prior to joining CBS, she was the executive vice president of business and financial affairs at Warner Bros. Television. She was named Hollywood's third most powerful woman in Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100 list for 2003. Ms. Tellem earned a bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from Hastings College of Law. [top]
Stefaan Verhulst
is the Chief of Research at the Markle Foundation. Prior to his arrival Mr. Verhulst was the co-founder and co-director, with Prof. Monroe Price, of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at Oxford University, as well as senior research fellow at the Centre for Socio Legal Studies. In that capacity he was appointed the socio-legal research fellow at Wolfson College (Oxford). In addition, he was the Unesco Chairholder in Communications Law and Policy for the UK.
Before his move to Oxford in 1996, he had been a lecturer on communications law and policy issues in Belgium and founder and co-director of the International Media and info-comms Policy and Law studies (IMPS) at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. Mr. Verhulst has served as consultant to various international and national organizations including the Council of Europe, European Commission, Unesco, UNDP, USAID and DFID. [top]
Jack Wakshlag
, chief research officer for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), is among the leading research and performance analysts in television. He directs the company.s audience development, marketing, distribution and ad sales research supporting the domestic and international networks of the CNN News Group, which include CNN/U.S., CNN Headline News and CNN International; the entertainment networks TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, Turner South, Boomerang and their international extensions, and Turner Sports. In addition to supporting these businesses he is responsible for research supporting Turner initiatives in new delivery platforms and innovation. He is based in Atlanta and reports to Vicky Miller, chief financial officer, TBS, Inc.
Previously, he was executive vice president and head of research for The WB, where he oversaw all research related to the network.s programming, distribution, publicity, marketing and sales. He joined The WB in 1995 from CBS, where he served as director of research for CBS New Media and Television Stations, from 1988 to 1994; and director of primary research for CBS Television Stations, from 1986 to 1988.
Wakshlag was an associate professor of telecommunications at Indiana University from 1977 to 1986. During his tenure, he researched and taught research design, programming and audience analysis. The author of numerous articles and textbook chapters, Wakshlag is a board member of The ARF and has served on the board of the Broadcast Education Association and the editorial board of The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. He was acknowledged for his industry leadership role as part of Cablefax.s Top 100 list in December 2004 and again in 2005.
Wakshlag earned a bachelor of arts degree from Queens College, a master of arts degree from Illinois State University and a doctorate in mass communication research from Michigan State University which honored him, in 2000, with its Distinguished Alumni Award.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment product around the world and the leading provider of programming to the basic cable industry. [top]
Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia project, and Wikicities.com, which extends the social concepts of Wikipedia into new areas. He is currently president and chairman of the board for the Wikimedia Foundation, a Tampa-based non-profit organization he helped form in mid 2003 to support Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Since starting the Wikimedia Foundation, Mr. Wales has become increasingly involved with promoting the foundation's mission and speaking about its projects. He was formerly a futures and options trader in Chicago, which financed several of his early Internet ventures, including Wikipedia (founded in 2001).
Mr. Wales first attended Auburn University for his undergraduate studies. He pursued post-graduate work at the University of Alabama and Indiana University.
When not travelling, Jimmy lives in Florida with his wife and daughter. [top]
James Webster
(Ph.D., Indiana) is a Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. His research interests include analyzing patterns of media consumption, audience measurement, and communications policy. He is the author of Ratings Analysis: The Theory and Practice of Audience Research (2006), which is now in its third edition, and The Mass Audience: Rediscovering the Dominant Model (1997). He has written extensively on audience behavior and the impact of new media, including the recent study .Beneath of Veneer of Fragmentation: Television Audience Polarization in a Multichannel World,. (Journal of Communication, 2005). He has been the Senior Associate Dean of Northwestern.s School of Communication, its Ameritech Research Professor, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media since 1985. [top]
David Weinberger
began his "career" in the late '70s teaching philosophy at New Jersey's Stockton State College for five years. (He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.) During this time he maintained his steady freelance writing of humor, reviews and intellectual and academic articles, publishing in places as diverse as The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Smithsonian, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and TV Guide.
In 1985, after being denied tenure because the tenure quota was filled, and after an enthusiastic but well-mannered student demonstration in his support, he became a junior marketing guy at Interleaf, an innovative start-up with new ideas on how to create and structure documents. At Interleaf he helped launch the industry.s first document management system and its first electronic document publishing system, years ahead of the Web. He left Interleaf after 8 years, as VP of Strategic Marketing. He founded the one-person strategic marketing company, Evident Marketing, in 1994 and within two years counted among his clients a wide variety of companies, including RR Donnelley, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0 and CSC index.
In late 1995, he joined Open Text as VP of Strategic Marketing because he saw an opportunity to help shape the way intranets are used. As part of the senior management team, Dr. Weinberger helped Open Text move from one of the first Web search engine companies (the engine behind Yahoo!) to market- and thought-leadership in Web-based collaborative software. After helping to take Open Text public in 1996, Dr. Weinberger returned to consulting, writing and speaking, helping to found a couple of dot-coms, and serving on industry and company boards. In 2000, Perseus published The Cluetrain Manifesto, of which is is a co-author. It became a national best-seller. In 2002, Perseus published Small Pieces Loosely Joined to enthusiastic reviews.
Dr. Weinberger currently writes too much, including 3 weblogs, articles for Wired, Salon, USAToday, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, and many more. He is working on another book that he doesn't want to talk about yet. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was Senior Internet Advisor to the Howard Dean campaign, consulting on Internet policy. In 2004 he was made a Fellow at Harvard's prestigious Berkman Institute for Internet & Society.
Dr. Weinberger earned his doctor of philosophy in philosophical studies at the University of Toronto. His undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, with honors, is from Bucknell University. [top]
Tom Hespos
has been involved in interactive communications since the commercial explosion of the World Wide Web in 1994. He started his advertising career at Young & Rubicam, working on both traditional and interactive media for the U.S. Army Group. Since then, he has held management-level media positions at agencies such as K2 Design, Blue Marble ACG and Mezzina Brown & Partners. Now Tom heads up Underscore Marketing, an independently-held marketing and media company. Recently, Underscore debuted a Conversational Marketing practice area that consults with companies to help them communicate meaningfully within online communities.
An avid writer, Tom is well known as a weekly columnist for such publications as ClickZ and Mediapost's The Online Spin. In 2000, he founded an online community for experienced marketing professionals called The Old Timers List, considered by its membership to be the top source for information and insight into the issues currently facing the online marketing business. He also blogs at Hespos.com.
Tom holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from Washington & Lee University. He lives in Wading River, New York on Long Island's East End.
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Ethan Zuckerman
is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. His research in the field of information and communication technology for development includes work
on telecommunications policy, free and open source software, and participatory media technologies like weblogs. With Rebecca MacKinnon, he is the cofounder of Global Voices, an international community of webloggers and citizen journalists.
Ethan is also a member of the sub-board that overseas Open Society Institute's Information Program. Prior to his work with Berkman and OSI, Ethan founded Geekcorps, a volunteer organization which sent technology experts to work with ICT companies in the developing world. He is the former CTO of Tripod.com, an early website hosting company based in Western Massachusetts, where he lives and works.
See also his blog, "My Heart's in Accra" and Global Voices [top]
Joseph Turow
is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. He is also the head of the Information & Society division of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center.
He is the author of more than 60 articles and nine books on mass media industries. Among them are Breaking Up America: Advertisers and the New Media World (University of Chicago Press, 1997; paperback, 1999; Chinese edition 2004), The Wired Homestead (edited with Andrea Kavanaugh, MIT Press, 2003), Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication (Houghton Mifflin, second edition, 2002), Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling and Medical Power (Oxford, 1989), and Getting Books to Children: An Exploration of Publisher-Market Relations (American Library Association Press, 1979). His new book, Niche Envy, on the social implications of database marketing, will be published by MIT Press in the summer of 2006.
His continuing national surveys of the American public on issues relating to marketing, new media, and society have received a great deal of attention in the popular press as well as in the research community. Professor Turow has also written about media and advertising for the popular press, including American Demographics magazine, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. His research has received financial support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Federal Communications Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.
Professor Turow currently serves on the editorial boards of the Encyclopedia of Advertising, The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Poetics, Journalism, and New Media & Society. He also is on the advisory board of Consumer WebWatch, a project of Consumers Union funded by the Pew Trusts and the Knight Foundation. [top]
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