Salahuddin AMINUZZAMAN

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Professor Salahuddin Aminuzzaman is Professor of Public Administration and Chair, Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka. Member of Academic Council and Board of Advanced Studies, University of Dhaka. Taught at University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Fulbright Visiting Professor North Dakota State University, USA. Visiting Professor to Oslo University and Bergen University, Norway, University of Tempere and University of University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Published five books and numerous research papers. Books include: Public Administration in Micro States; Talking Back! Empowerment and Mobile Phone in Rural Bangladesh; Social Science Research Methods; Promotion of Pro-Poor Issue ¡V Role of MPs and Major Political Parties in Bangladesh. Research interest includes: development management, policy analysis, NGO and Third Sector, National Integrity System and Corruption Studies. Academic degree ¡V MPA and PhD in Public Administration.

Bart BARENDREGT

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Bart Barendregt (1968) is an anthropologist who is lecturing at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands as well as within the framework of the national Contemporary Asian Studies program. He just finished his PhD research entitled ¡¥From the Realm of Many Rivers: Memory, Places and Notions of Home in the Southern Sumatran Highlands. More recently he has been appointed as a post doc researcher at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Leiden University, working on a book called ¡§The Poetry of Portable Places and other Tales of Self-Indonesiasation,¡¦ which deals with the media and contemporary arts in post Suharto Indonesia.

He has published on Indonesian performing arts, Islamic pop culture and material culture. Recent publications include ¡¥The sound of longing for home; Redefining a sense of community through Minang popular musics (2002)¡¦ and ¡¥Popular music in Indonesia; Mass-mediated Fusion, Indie and Islamic music since 1998 (with Wim van Zanten, 2003).

Hoai Son BUI

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Bui Hoai Son is a PhD student of Cultural Management. He graduated from Faculty of Sociology in Hanoi University in 1996. He has written many books and articles involved in cultural studies and media studies such as cultural aspects of poverty (1998), The effects of mass media on peasant's culture in Red River Delta in Vietnam (1999), Mass media as a means of socialisation (2000), An assessment on media studies in Vietnam (2004), the effects on internet young users in Hanoi (2004) etc.

Chantal de GOURNAY

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Ravi DHAR

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Graduated from University of Jammu, Jammu, India in English and from Himachal Pradesh University in Mass Communication. Successfully completed doctoral degree from the Dept of English in North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. Taught in the Dept of English of North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India for 5 years and the Dept of Journalism, Languages & Culture of Punjab Agric University, Ludhiana, India for 14 years and the English Language Dept of Ethiopian Civil Service College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for one year and 4 months. Presently serving as the Director of Tecnia Institute of Advanced Studies, an institute of higher education affiliated to GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi, India. Have been active in the area of communication rights and policy, particularly the citizen's right to communicate in developing countries. Articles available online on the web sites of Internet Society and the Right to Communicate Group, USA.

Jonathan DONNER

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Jonathan Donner is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. His research focuses on the role information and communication technologies play in economic development. He coordinates Columbia's efforts on a CDC-funded initiative, together with Voxiva, inc. to create a nationwide information system to support HIV treatment in Rwanda. In addition he conducts research on the use of mobile telephones by small business owners. Details can be found in 'Microentrepreneurs and mobiles: an exploration of the uses of mobile phones by small business owners in Rwanda'. Information Technologies and International Development. 2(1), 1-21 (2005, in press), and 'The mobile behaviors of Kigali's microentrepreneurs: whom they call...and why'. In Kristˆuf Nyˆqri, ed., A Sense of Place. Vienna: Passagen Verlag (2005, in press). Prior to joining the Earth Institute, Jonathan worked with the OTF Group, an economic consultancy in Boston, MA. Jonathan holds a doctorate in Communication Theory and Research from Stanford University. E-Mail: jd2210@columbia.ed

John ERNI

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Leopoldina FORTUNATI

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Leopoldina Fortunati teaches Sociology of Communication and Sociology of Cultural Processes at the Faculty of Education of the University of Udine. She has conducted several research in the field of gender studies, cultural processes and communication technologies. She is the author of many books, is the editor of Mediating the Human Body. Technology, Communication and Fashion (2003) with J. Katz and R. Riccini. She has published many articles in important journals. She represents Italy in the COST Technical Committee for Social Sciences and Humanities and in the action COST A20 "The Impact of Internet on the Mass Media in Europe". She was part of the European research project SIGIS "Strategies of Inclusion: Gender and the Information Society" and of COST248 "The Future European Telecommunications User" and she was the vice-chairperson of COST269 "User Aspects of ICTs". She is the co-chair of the International Association "The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication" (SSSMC) which intends to facilitate the international advancement of cross-disciplinary mobile communication studies. She organised several international workshops and conferences. Her works have been published in eight languages. [email:fortunati.deluca@tin.it]

Gerard GOGGIN

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Dr Gerard Goggin is an ARC Australian Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, undertaking a five-year study of mobile phone culture, policy and regulation. Gerard's book on mobile phone culture will be published by Routledge in 2006. Gerard has published widely on telecommunications, the Internet, and new media, including the co-authored Digital Disability: The Social Construction of Disability in New Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and his 2004 edited collection The Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (University of NSW Press, 2004). He is editing a special issue of Southern Review on the histories of mobile telephony, and a special issue of Continuum on mobile phone culture.

Zhou HE

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Zhou He earned his Ph.D. degree from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Indiana University. He is an associate professor of communication and new media in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. He has published three books/monographs. His research work has appeared in such journals as Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, International Journal of Public Opinion, Journalism Monographs, Intercultural Communication Studies, Media, Culture and Society, Communication Research, and Gazette. His research interests include: international communication, media effects, telecommunications policy, and new communication media.

Larissa HJORTH

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Hjorth is a lecturer in Digital Art in the Games and Digital Art program at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Over the last five years, Hjorth has been researching gendered customisation and mobile telephony in the Asia-Pacific. Key publications include 'Kawaii@keitai' in Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland (eds) Japanese Cybercultures (New York, Routledge, 2003: 50-59) and '"Pop" and "Ma": The Landscape of Japanese Commodity Characters and Subjectivity' in Fran Martin, Audrey Yue and Chris Berry (eds) Mobile Cultures (Durham, Duke Uni Press, 2003: 158-179). Email: larissa.hjorth@rmit.edu.au

Myung Koo KANG

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Shin Dong KIM

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Shin Dong Kim is Associate Professor of Communication at Hallym University, Korea, and is also serving as the director of the Institute for Communication Arts & Technology (iCat) and Center for Electronic Democracy (iCat-CED). His research and teaching interests in the last few years has been related to information and communication technologies¡¦ impact on society and politics. He has also conducted research on mobile communication, media policy, and transnational media culture in one way or another. He has held or is going to assume visiting professorships at Dartmouth College, USA; Macquarie University, Australia; Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand; University of the Philippines, and Sciences Po, France. Chapters with his name appeared in Contemporary Television (Sage 1996), Handbook of the Media in Asia (Sage 2002), Perpetual Contact (2002 Cambridge), Mobile Democracy (Passagen Verlag 2003), and so on. His research institute, the iCat, is now expanding research areas from media technology and transnational culture to teledemocracy and media education. The iCat is wide open to all scholars and students for exchanges, visits, and research cooperation. http://www.hallym.ac.kr/~icat/

Patrick LAW

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Chin Chuan LEE

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Angel LIN

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Angel Lin received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1996. She is an associate professor in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. She works in the areas of critical discourse analysis, urban ethnography, feminist cultural studies, mobile communication and youth cultures, and postcolonial studies. With a background in ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and social theory, her theoretical orientations are phenomenological, sociocultural and critical.

Garland LIU

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In 1992, Garland Liu obtained a doctorate degree in sociology from The University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Her Ph.D. study mainly looked into how the Chinese people managed to find a living through the economic enclave of the catering business with distinctive ethnic characteristics in Britain. Upon returning to Hong Kong, she worked briefly with a printing establishment and later with The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong. In 1995, she joined The Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong which was retitled The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) in 1997. She is now Assistant Professor mainly responsible for distance education courses in both the Social Sciences and the Law Enforcement and Security Management Programmes. She also teaches face-to-face courses in sociology and Hong Kong society. During her time in the OUHK, she develops research interest in topics such as policing and law enforcement as well as gender and sexuality.

Raul PERTIERRA

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Raul Pertierra obtained his Ph.D. in anthropology from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He taught in several universities in Australia and abroad, mostly at the School of Sociology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he is presently a Visiting Fellow. Dr. Pertierra is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University. His most recent publications include: Txt-ting Selves:Cellphones and Philippine Modernity (2002), the work of culture (2002), Mobile Phones, Identity and Discursive Intimacy in Human Technology (2005).

Harmeet SAWHNEY

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Harmeet Sawhney is Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. His research focuses on the processes that shape the development of telecommunications infrastructure and other large-scale networks such as canals, railroads, and highways. One stream of work examines the role of metaphors in the network development process. It looks at how metaphors serve as vehicles for the transfer of conceptual frameworks from one technology to another and also how they facilitate action in the face of all the uncertainties that mark the network development process. Another stream of work examines issues related to universal access that call for reconciliation between the ideals of democracy and the realities of the situation on the ground. It seeks to understand how America marshals its political will, emotions, and resources to attain the egalitarian ideal of universal access by studying the evolution of universal education, universal access to public libraries, rural electrification, universal medical coverage, and universal telephone service. His research articles appear in Telecommunications Policy; Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; Media, Culture, & Society; Info; Entrepreneurship & Regional Development; The Information Society and book chapters in edited volumes. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of The Information Society.

Shin MIZUKOSHI

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Graduated from Tsukuba University. MA from the University of Tokyo. Before taking his present post in 2000, Mizukoshi was at the Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies in the University of Tokyo, first as a research associate and then as an associate professor. Mizukoshi advocates socio-media studies that integrates media thought and design. One of his primary research activities, undertaken with his colleagues, is the MELL Project (Media Expression, Learning and Literacy Project), a critical/practical research group on citizen's media expression and media literacy. Mizukoshi also develops a research project of mobile media, "MoDe Project (Mobiling Designing Project)" funded by NTT DoCoMo Mobile Society Research Institute (Moba-Ken). His writings include "Formation of Media: A Dynamic History of American Broadcasting", "Digital Media Society", "Telephone as a Medium", "Media Practice: Making Media, Change the World", "Media Biotope: Designing Media Ecosystem".

Eric Charles THOMPSON

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Eric C. Thompson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington (Seattle) and has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. His research interests include the social and cultural effects of urbanism in rural Malaysia, cultural identity and subjectivity, and the development of information technology and scholarly networks in Southeast Asia.

Shan Hua YANG, Yinni Peng
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Aske DAM

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DAM is a media artist and producer who has been focusing on the relationship between possibilities of new information technologies and media culture. He was a international fellow of the University of Tokyo.

Masaaki ITO

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Ito is a doctor course student of the graduate school of interdisciplinary information studies, the University of Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. MA from the Unversity of Tokyo. He is also an editor in chief of the SOFTBANK Publishing Co. Ltd.

Mamiko HAYASHIDA

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Hayashida is a doctor course student of the graduate school of interdisciplinary information studies, the University of Tokyo. Graduate from Kyushu University. MA from the Unversity of Tokyo. She is also the Desk of 24 hours news channel of NTV, "NNN24"<http://www.nnn24.com/>. Before MA, she was a news announcer of Fukuoka Hoso in Kyushu, Japan.

Kiyoko TORIUMI

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TORIUMI is a master course student of the graduate school of interdisciplinary information studies, the University of Tokyo. Graduated from Keio University. She is also a member of one citizen¡¦s internet broadcasting station in Japan, "Shonan.TV"<http://www.shonan.tv/>