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Society Online: Editorsis Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He has published several articles and chapters on the use of new media in politics and public opinion research, was the first politics research fellow at the Pew Internet and American Life Project, and currently serves on the advisory board of the Survey2001 project. He teaches courses in political communication, organizational behavior, and international media systems and is currently preparing a book-length manuscript titled Politics In Code: Franchise and Representation in the Age of New Media. Website is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Doing Internet Research, The Encyclopedia of New Media, CyberSociety, and Virtual Culture. He is cofounder and president of the Association of Internet Researchers and is coeditor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture. He also edits New Media Cultures, a series of books on culture and technology (Sage), and Digital Formations, a series of books on new media (Peter Lang). Website Society Online: Authorsis Deputy Director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation, after having directed the division’s Human Computer Interaction, Universal Access, and Knowledge and Cognitive Systems programs. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of 10 books, 4 textbook-software packages, and approximately 150 shorter publications in information science, social science of technology, and sociology of culture. His software employs innovative techniques to teach theory and methodology: Experiments in Psychology, Sociology Laboratory, Survey Research, and Social Research Methods and Statistics. Most recently, he coedited Converging Technologies to Improve Human Performance, which explores the combination of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science. Website is Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, specializing in the areas of cyberlaw and biotechnology. He holds appointments at both the law school and the Center for Bioethics and has also been closely involved in the development of the new Joint Degree Program in Law, Health, and the Life Sciences and in the creation of the university’s new Internet Studies Center. His publications include “Cyberlaw and the Norms of Science” (in Intellectual Property & Technology Forum),“Virtual Exit in the Global Information Economy” (in Chicago-Kent Law Review), “Trademark Doctrines for Global Electronic Commerce” (in South Caroline Law Review), and “Ownership Issues in Online Use of Institutional Materials” (in Cause/Effect). Website is a principal with mc2 and a Senior Fellow with the American Press Institute. She is a former CNN and CNN.com executive and a recent fellowship professor at the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. She has served as a contributing editor to Campaigns and Elections and as associate editor for Congressional Quarterly’s 1990 Politics in America. Website is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. She is interested in the reciprocal relationship between information/communication technologies and society. Her current research projects include a comparative study of mayoral candidate Web sites and analyses of the Web spheres that developed around the events of September 11, 2001, and in anticipation of the 2002 U.S. elections. She is codirector of the WebArchivist.org research group, where she is developing new techniques for studying social and political action on the Web. She is also coeditor of the book series Acting With Technology. Website is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. He is interested in the intersection of American politics,media,and race as well as inconsistencies in new media or the “digital divide” along racial lines. His current work focuses on racial profiling discourse before and after September 11, 2001, and how rap music, as black political speech, is covered in the news media. Website is Professor of Sociology and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard and the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests center on cultural sociology; sociological approaches to literature, art, and religion; time and place; and comparative studies in Europe and Africa. Her recent books include Bearing Witness: Readers,Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria (2000) and Cultures and Societies in a Changing World (1994), which has been translated into Japanese and Italian. She is writing a book on cultural regionalism titled Regionalism and the Reading Class. She directs the Culture and Society Workshop at Northwestern. Website is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota. Her research emphasis in on the rhetorics of science and technology, rhetorical criticism, Internet studies, online research methods, social aspects of computing, law and technology (intellectual property and privacy), electronic literacies, and technical and professional communication. Her books include Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet With Awareness and Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace: The Online Protests Over Lotus MarketPlace and the Clipper Chip. Website is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on the increasing role of commercial interests in channeling information toward users. Her publications include “Open Portals or Closed Gates? Channeling Content on the World Wide Web” (in Poetics), “Radio’s Lessons for the Internet” (in Communications of the ACM), and “Weaving the Western Web: Explaining Differences in Internet Connectivity Among OECD Countries” (in Telecommunications Policy). She is also associate director of the International Networks Archive, whose aim is to assemble data sets relevant to empirical research on mapping globalization in a central location and to standardize them so that the various indicators can be combined. Website is Professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University. His enduring research interest has been to understand how the interplay between technology and social processes affects interpersonal power, organizational structures, and the creation of cultural meaning. He has won postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served on the faculties of the University of Texas at Austin and Clarkson University, and headed the social science research unit at Bell Communication Research (Bellcore). He was granted national and foreign patents on his inventions in telecommunications technology and is the author of several books in the field of technology and society, including Connections: Social and Cultural Studies of the Telephone in American Life (1999), which has been cited in Choice as a “landmark” study. Website is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D., A.M., and A.B. from Harvard University. His publications include “War and the Development of Modern National States”with Theda Skocpol (in Sociological Forum) and “Mars Unshackled: The French Revolution in World-Historical Perspective” with Theda Skocpol (in The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity). His current research includes work on state building during times of revolution and a new project titled “Bridging the Gap: Assuring Military Effectiveness When Military Culture Diverges From Civilian Society,” under the aegis of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. Website is completing the Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is collaborating with Nina Wakeford on the Mobile Devices and the Cultural Worlds of Young People Project, a comparative ethnography of young people and mobile phones in the United Kingdom and the United States, sponsored by the Annenberg Center for Communication. Her publications include “Keeping Up: Web Design Skill and the Reinvented Worker” (in Information Communication and Society) and “The Birth of Web Site Design Skills: Making the Present History” (in American Behavioral Scientist). She has also done research for Sun Microsystems, Productopia, and Liquid Thinking. Website is Research Fellow at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. She has a master’s degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where her major research projects included analysis of wireless broadband technology policy and a study of the 2000 presidential election campaign on the Internet. She filled her time between college and graduate school by working as a program analyst for the Department of the Treasury. Website is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (2002) and a coeditor of Race in Cyberspace (2000). She has published articles on cross-racial role-playing in Internet chat spaces; race, embodiment, and virtuality in the film The Matrix; and political economies of race and cyberspace in publications such as the Women’s Review of Books, Unspun: Key Terms for the World Wide Web, The Cybercultures Reader, and The Visual Culture Reader 2.0. She is working on a new book tentatively titled Visual Cultures of Race in Cyberspace. Website is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Columbia University, where she was a research associate in the Center on Organizational Innovation. Her doctoral research, titled Organizing Uncertainty in Silicon Alley, looks at the ways in which risk and uncertainty were experienced in New York City during the early days of the Internet. She is also working on a comparative project that examines social networking practices in the Internet industry in New York and Berlin, and she is analyzing the emergence of social structure in an online classroom. Website is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts,Amherst. His research is focused on the distribution of political power across interest groups, campaign finance, and the networks of corporate political action. His books include Money Talks and Dollars and Votes. His current research interests include examining the nature of the growth of Internet use by Americans, with special consideration of Internet use for political and cultural purposes, and the nature and existence of a “digital divide.” Website is McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her research compares elections and public opinion, political communications, and gender politics. Her books include Democratic Phoenix: Political Activism Worldwide, which focuses on how political activism has been reinvented for modern times, and two books scheduled for publication in 2003: Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World (with Ron Inglehart) and Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior. Website is Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. His research interests are in the music industry, taste and stratification, and production of culture. His current research projects examine the aging of the fine arts audience, scenes where music genres are created, and the spread of omnivorous tastes. His recent articles include “Two Ways Culture Is Produced” (in Poetics), “Alternative Country: Origins, Music, World-view, Fans, and Taste in Genre Formation”with Bruce A. Beal (in Popular Music and Society), and a chapter titled “The Re Creation Indicator” with Carrie Y. Lee (in Quality of Life Indicators: A New Tool for Assessing National Trends). His recent book is The Aging of Arts Audiences National Endowment for the Arts (with Pamela Hull and Roger Kern). Website is Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, a research center that examines the social impact of the Internet, specifically focusing on how people’s Internet use affects families, communities, health care, education, civic and political life, and workplaces. Prior to receiving the Pew grant, he was managing editor of U.S. News & World Report. He is a graduate of Harvard University and has a master’s degree in political science from Long Island University. Website has the Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication at UC Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and has corporate experience in systems and communication analysis, banking operations, data processing management, publishing, and statistical consulting. He has published widely in communication science, public communication campaigns, computer-mediated communication systems, information systems, information science and bibliometrics, and social networks. His most recent coauthored or coedited books include Public Communication Campaigns (2001), The Internet and Health Communication (2001), Accessing and Browsing Information and Communication (2001), and Social Consequences of Internet Use: Access, Involvement, and Interaction (2002). Website is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland,where he also directs the Internet Scholars Program and the Americans’ Use of Time Project. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He is an expert on time use, societal trends and social change, the impact of the mass media and the Internet on society, and social science methodology. He is the author of Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Spend Time (1997), Measures of Political Attitudes (1999), and Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes (1991). He is the cofounder and editor of the journal IT & Society. His more recent articles on the Internet and time displacement have appeared in IT & Society and Social Science Computer Review. He has codirected the University of Maryland’s summer “Webshop,” in which 50 top graduate students from around the country interact with leading Internet scholars. Website is Professor in and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on the sociology of work, organizations, and occupations, with an emphasis on mass media, industries, and emerging technologies. He also has a long-term interest in the digital transformation of culture industries, with a particular focus on copyright law. His most recent book is Media and Society: The Production of Culture in the Mass Media (with William Wentworth). Website is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of several books,most recently Guests and Aliens (1999), and is the editor of Global Networks/Linked Cities (2002). She chairs the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation, and Global Security Committee of the Social Science Research Council for the United States. Website is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York Institute of Technology and Codirector of WebArchivist.org. His research focuses on the impact of the Internet on political and social life as well as on the development of systems to identify, collect, analyze, and access large-scale archives of born digital materials for scholarly study. His recent research has examined the emergence of online structures for political action on campaign Web sites in the United States and the potential for expanding the public sphere through Internet-based persistent conversation. Website is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Concordia University in Montreal, where her research and teaching focus on the social, ethical, and policy aspects of information and communication technologies. She is the author of Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet (2002) and is the coeditor of Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (2002), Civic Discourse and Cultural Politics in Canada (2002), and E-Commerce vs. E-Commons: Communications in the Public Interest (2001). Her current research focuses on how children and youth are using the Internet in their homes, and she is preparing a book on Internet policy. Website is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. His research interests focus primarily on the intersections among computers, the Internet, and contemporary American cultures. Since 1996,he has been building the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Website is Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University, where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation,and is External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute. He is a major contributor to the new economic sociology and examines problems of worth and value in various organizational contexts. He is currently studying the coevolution of collaborative organizational forms and interactive technologies. His current research in Eastern Europe includes a multicountry study of how nongovernmental organizations use new information technologies as well as a longitudinal analysis of the patterns of ownership and organizational change among the largest 1,800 Hungarian enterprises during the past decade of transformation. Website is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the intersections between culture and rhetoric on and about the Internet, especially in the context of higher education. She is a coauthor of Partnering in the Learning Marketspace (2001). Website is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She conducted her research on Internet voting as a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include the uses of communication technology and implications for democratic practice, and her current work investigates the motives people have for using political chat spaces online.Her recent publications can be found in the Journal of Communication, Javnost/The Public, and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Website is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Clemson University. His ongoing research focuses on ways in which to use the World Wide Web to collect survey data and on similarities and differences between society online and society offline. His other research area builds on his dissertation, Labor Force Integration and Marital Choice, and examines different ways in which labor market forces construct and define individual identity. Website is completing his Ph.D. in sociology at Northwestern University. His main areas of interest include religion, consumption, and popular culture. He is the coauthor of a paper titled “Cowbirds, Locals, and the Dynamic Endurance of Regionalism” (with Wendy Griswold). |