Contributors to Volume II
Carolina Acosta-Alzuru (PhD, University of Georgia) is Associate Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Her scholarship focuses on the links between media, culture, and society and bridges the disciplines of cultural studies, international media studies, and women's studies as she examines media texts and their production and reception. She is the author of the book Venezuela es una telenovela (2007). Her research is published in Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Communication, Mass Communication and Society, and other journals. She is the recipient of the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Professorship, the University of Georgia's highest teaching award.
Patrick Burkart is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Music and Cyberliberties (2010) and co-author of Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox (2006).
Jonathan Burston is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario. He was previously a professional dancer and now researches issues of digital labor in entertainment capitalism. Relevant publications include “Synthespians Among Us: Re-Thinking the Actor in Media Work and Media Theory,” in James Curran and David Morley (Eds.), Media and Cultural Theory (2006); “Recombinant Broadway,” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 23(2), 2009; and a co-edited special issue on digital labor of Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization (volume 10, issue 3/4, spring 2011).
John T. Caldwell is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, UCLA; author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television (2008); editor of New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality (2003); and co-editor (with Vicki Mayer and Miranda Banks) of Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries (2009).
Mari Castañeda (UCSD 2000, Communication) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her fields of study include new media and communication policy, and Latino/Chicano media studies. Her most recent projects are two edited books: Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences, and Mothers' Lives in Academia.
M. J. Clarke earned his PhD in film and television from the Cinema and Media Studies Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include “Tent-Pole Television” (Dissertation, UCLA, 2009) and “Lost and Mastermind Narration,” in Television and New Media, 11(2), 2010, 123–142.
Tamara L. Falicov is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas. She is a core faculty member at the Center of Latin American Studies. Professor Falicov's specialty is the study of Latin American film industries, with particular focus on the cinemas of Argentina and Cuba. She is the author of The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (2007), which won the CHOICE award for outstanding academic title in 2008; and she is currently working on a book about Latin American film industries, to be published with BFI/Palgrave. Her work also examines Spanish–Latin American co-productions, Roger Corman's co-productions in Argentina, and the role of film festivals in bolstering Latin American film production and distribution. Her articles are published in the journals Media, Culture and Society, Canadian Journal of Communication, Framework, The Americas, Film and History, Spectator, and Studies in Latin American Popular Culture among others.
David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media and Music Industries and Head of the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. His publications include The Cultural Industries (3rd edition, 2012) and five edited volumes, including The Media and Social Theory (with Jason Toynbee, 2008), Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity (with Jessica Evans, 2005) and Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Appropriation and Representation in Music (with Georgina Born, 2000). Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries, co-written with Sarah Baker, was published in 2010.
Erin Hill is a PhD candidate in UCLA's program in Cinema and Media Studies, writing her dissertation on “women's” jobs in the studio era and their relation to gendered media production today. Though primarily focused on teaching and research, she also freelances as a story analyst for Summit Entertainment and writes about her experiences of studying and working in contemporary film/TV production cultures at (http://filmindustrybloggers.com/thescriptreader), as well as on her blog at http://erinthill.wordpress.com.
Dal Yong Jin obtained his PhD degree from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His major research and teaching interests are on new media and convergence, globalization and media, media policy, online gaming study, and the political economy of media and culture. He is the author of two books, entitled Korea's Online Gaming Empire (2010) and Hands On/Hands Off: The Korean State and the Market Liberalization of the Communication Industry (2011). He has also edited two volumes: The Political Economies of Media (with Dwayne Winseck, 2011) and Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics (2010). His recent work has appeared in several scholarly journals, including Media, Culture and Society, Television and New Media, Games and Culture, Telecommunications Policy, Information Communication and Society, and Javnost – The Public.
Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, Claremont, California. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is author/editor of AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (1995), Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video (2001), F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing (co-edited with Jesse Lerner, 2005), and Media Praxis: A Radical Web-Site Integrating Theory, Practice and Politics (www.mediapraxis.org). She is also the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues, and recently she completed the feature documentaries SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age (2008), Video Remains (2005), and Dear Gabe (2003) – as well as Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Video (1998) and the shorts RELEASED: 5 Short Videos About Women and Film (2000) and Naming Prairie (2001), a Sundance Film Festival 2002 official selection. Her born-digital online “video-book” about YouTube, Learning from YouTube (winter 2011), is available from http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12596).
Dafna Lemish is Professor of Communication, Chair of the Department of Radio–TV at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and founding editor of the Journal of Children and Media. She is author and editor of numerous books on children, media, and gender representations. Some of the most recent titles are: Screening Gender on Children's Television: The Views of Producers Around the World (2010); Children and Television: A Global Perspective (Blackwell, 2007); Children and Media at Times of Conflict and War (co-edited with Götz, 2007); Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children: When Harry Potter Meets Pokémon in Disneyland (with Götz, Aidman, and Moon, 2005). In addition she has published over 100 academic articles and book chapters in these areas in several languages.
Lucas Logan is a graduate student in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.
Sylvia J. Martin is an anthropologist and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College. Previously she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Babson College. Her dissertation was based on multi-sited ethnographic research in the Los Angeles and Hong Kong film/TV industries. Fieldwork included working at a Warner Bros. production company, as an “extra” on a TV drama, and observing Hong Kong stunt workers. Her articles have appeared in Visual Anthropology Review, Society, American Ethnologist, and several edited volumes.
Vicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. She has authored Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and Mass Media (2003) and Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy (2011). In addition to serving as editor for the journal Television and New Media, she directs the digital humanities project MediaNOLA (http://medianola.org), a portal for the history of cultural and media production in New Orleans.
Richard Maxwell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at City University of New York, Queens College. He is author of Herbert Schiller, The Spectacle of Democracy: Spanish Television, Nationalism, and Political Transition (2003); co-author (with Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Ting Wang) of Global Hollywood 2 (2005); and editor of Culture Works: The Political Economy of Culture (2001).
John McMurria is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to articles in anthologies and journals, he is co-author, with Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, Richard Maxwell and Ting Wang, of Global Hollywood 2 (2005). Currently he is working on a history of US cable television and citizenship.
Lothar Mikos is Professor at the University of Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, where he teaches film and television studies and serves as Head of the Department of Media Studies. He is also managing director of the Erich Pommer Institute for Media Law, Media Economics and Media Research. He is member of the editorial board of several academic journals, and he is currently editing a book on transnational serial culture and quality TV His latest publication in English is “How the Pumpkins Conquered Germany! Halloween, Media and Reflexive Modernization in Germany,” in Treat or Trick? Halloween in a Globalising World, edited by Malcolm Foley and Hugh O'Donnell (2009).
Laura J. Miller is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University. She is the author of Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption (2006). Her research focuses on the intersection of cultural and economic factors within industries characterized by moral commitments to their products.
Quinn Miller is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oregon. Miller's writing has appeared in Spectator, Flow, The New Queer Aesthetic on Television, and in the volume Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition, edited by Trystan Cotten (2011). His PhD in screen cultures was awarded by Northwestern University's Department of Radio, Television, and Film. Miller is currently working on a book manuscript titled Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Television History.
Toby Miller is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His teaching and research cover the media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy. Toby is the author and editor of over 30 volumes, and he has published essays in well over 100 journals and books. You can follow his adventures and his podcast via tobymiller.org.
Marta Perrotta (Rome, 1977) is researcher at Dipartimento Comunicazione e Spettacolo, Roma Tre University, and she teaches writing for television and the history of broadcasting. She has a PhD in communication and new technologies from IULM University, Milan. Her publications include Ilformat televisivo: Caratteristiche, circolazione internazionale, usi e abusi (2007); and L'ABC del fare radio (2003). Her articles can be found in Media, Culture and Society and in The Radio Journal. She has been working as writer, editor, and author with radio and TV production companies such as Rai and Mediaset.
Katrien Pype earned her doctoral degree in social and cultural anthropology at the University of Leuven (Belgium, 2008), with her ethnography of the production of local TV drama in Kinshasa. She has been a Newton International Fellow (British Academy) at the University of Birmingham (UK), where she has worked on TV journalism, memory, and politics in contemporary Kinshasa. Currently she is a Marie Curie Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the University of Leuven, examining the intersections between ICT, sociality, and religion, especially in the everyday lives of Kinshasa's senior population. Her articles appeared in Africa, Visual Anthropology, Popular Communication, Journal of African Media Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Journal of Modern African Studies. A monograph based upon her dissertation and entitled The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Media, Religion and Gender in Kinshasa was published in 2012.
Ellie Rennie is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University (Australia). Her work focuses on community and Indigenous media, digital storytelling, and broadband policy. She has written two books: Life of SYN: A Story of the Digital Generation (2011) and Community Media: A Global Introduction (2006).
David Michael Ryfe is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Scholar in the Reynolds School of Journalism, Univeristy of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on presidential communication, deliberative practice, the history of American journalism, and the ethnography of journalism. His current major project is a five-year ethnographic study of American newspapers, to be published in 2012.
Katharine Sarikakis is Professor of Communication and Media Governance in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. Previously she held tenured and visiting positions at the University of Leeds, UK, Karlstad University Sweden, and McGill University Canada. She is founding co-editor of the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics and author of articles and books on media and cultural policy and international communications; these include Media and Cultural Policy in the European Union (2007); Feminist Interventions in International Communication (2008); and Media Policy and Globalisation (2006). She was Chair of the Communications Law and Policy Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) from 2008 to 2012. She is also Honorary Research Fellow at the Hainan University, China. She has served as elected vice-president at the International Association of Media and Communication Researchers, where she is currently serving as an elected member of the International Council.
Shawn Shimpach is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Hero (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). His research has also appeared in such journals as Social Semiotics and Cultural Studies and in the collections Media and Public Spheres (edited by Richard Busch, 2007) and The Handbook of Media Audiences (edited by Virgina Nightingale; Blackwell 2011).
Lora Taub-Pervizpour is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication at Muhlenberg College. She has been engaged in collaborations with young people, making media for more than two decades in communities as diverse as San Diego, California and São Paulo, Brazil. In Allentown, Pennsylvania, she collaborates with community partners on HYPE (Healthy Youth Peer Education), a youth leadership development program that leverages new digital media as tools for advocacy and community change.
Timothy D. Taylor is Professor in the Departments of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of many articles and several books – most recently, The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture.
Serra Tinic is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. Her larger research program focuses on the global dimensions of television drama production and distribution and the cultural geography of transnational industry practices in the neo-network era. She is the author of On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market (2005). She has published on television production cultures and media globalization in several anthologies and journals, including Television and New Media, Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, Journal of Communication, Communication, Culture and Critique, Social Epistemology, and The Velvet Light Trap. Her current project is entitled Trading in Culture: The Global Cultural Economy of Television Drama.
Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. He has authored nine books, has edited five books, and has written more than 100 articles on mass media industries. His recent books include: The Daily You: How the New Advertising Industry Is Defining Your Identity and Your Worth (2011); Playing Doctor: Television, Storytelling and Medical Power (2010); Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age (2006).
Eric Vanstrom is a doctoral candidate in cinema and media studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interrogates movie market and audience research practices from an audience perspective. He has published an article in Mediascape: UCLA's Journal of Cinema and Media Studies and has co-authored a chapter in the volume New York, Los Angeles II (forthcoming).
Espen Ytreberg is Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. His work on media production and performance has appeared in several Norwegian-Sanguage books. He has also published articles in Media, Culture and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, New Media and Society, Convergence, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, and Television and New Media.
Anna Zoellner is Lecturer in Media Industries at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on media production, cultural industries, and creative labor. She has a professional background as a television producer.