Contributors to Volume I
Mark Andrejevic is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. He is the author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched and iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on popular culture, digital media, and surveillance.
Kevin G. Barnhurst is Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches philosophy of communication, history of media studies research, and qualitative research methods. He was Fulbright Vercelli Distinguished Chair in the History of Twentieth Century Communication in 2006 and held previous fellowships at Harvard and Columbia universities. He is co-author with John Nerone of The Form of News: A History, tracking the newspaper in American culture from the colonial to the digital era.
Shihua Chen, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism and Communication, Nanchang University, China. His research focuses on media history, the political economy of communication, and the history of the field of communication.
Sue Collins is an assistant professor in the Humanities Department at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests include media and cultural history, political economy of media and cultural industries, and critical cultural policy studies. She is writing a book, Calling All Stars: A Cultural History of Hollywood, World War I, and the Politics of Authority, which examines the inception of Hollywood celebrity/ star authority during the Liberty Loan Bond drives of World War I.
David Alan Grier is the author of the computing histories When Computers Were Human (2005), Too Soon To Tell (Wiley, 2009), and The Company We Keep (2012). He is the lead columnist for IEEE Computer and is an associate professor of International Science and Technology Policy at George Washington University.
Hanno Hardt, who passed away as this book went to press, was Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa (USA) and Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). He was author and co-editor of numerous books, most recently Des murs éloquents: une rhétorique visuelle du politique/Eloquent Walls: A Visual Rhetoric of Politics (2008) and co-editor (with Bonnie Brennen) of The American Journalism History Reader: Critical and Primary Texts (2010).
Richard R. John is a professor in the PhD program in communications at the Columbia School of Journalism, where he teaches courses on business, technology, communications, and political development. His publications include Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications (2010), which won the Ralph E. Gomory Prize for the best historical monograph on the consequences of business activity and the Best Book Prize in Journalism and Mass Communication History, and Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995), which won the Allan Nevins Prize. John has also won the Harold F. Williamson Prize for a scholar at mid-career who has made significant contributions to business history. He has been a fellow at the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson Center, a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and the president of the Business History Conference. John is co-editor of two book series: “American Business, Politics, and Society” with the University of Pennsylvania Press; and “How Things Worked: Institutional Dimensions of the American Past” with Johns Hopkins University Press. He serves on the editorial boards of the Business History Review, Enterprise and Society, and the Journal of Policy History, and was a founder of the Newberry Library's Seminar on Technology, Politics, and Culture.
Richard Kaplan, when not peddling products in a corporate marketing department, is an independent scholar. He is the author of Politics and the American Press: The Rise of Objectivity, 1865–1920 (2002) and varied articles on cultural theory and media history.
Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at the University of California Los Angeles and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan; Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; and Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond. He is also author of works in cultural studies such as Media Culture and Media Spectacle; a trilogy of books on postmodern theory with Steve Best; and a trilogy of books on the media and the Bush administration that includes Grand Theft 2000, From 9/11 to Terror War, and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy. Author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, Kellner is editing the collected papers of Herbert Marcuse, five volumes of which have appeared.
Sae-Eun Kim is Associate Professor, Kangwon National University, Korea. She graduated from Yonsei University (BA), Seoul National University (MA), and the University of Sussex (DPhil). Kim's work has focused on communication, culture, and democracy. Her recent works include “From Resistance to Power: A Reconstruction of Korean Journalism History through Dismissed Journalists' Career and Life” (Media and Society, 2010, in Korean) and “The Similarity and Difference of Korean Conservative Newspapers: An Analysis of Ideology in Chosun-Jungang-Donga Daily's Editorial” (Media, Gender and Culture, 2010, in Korean). She is the author of Newspaper Credibility as a Bridge to Readers (2003, in Korean) and Competition and Change of Newspaper Market (2004, in Korean). She also translated Roger Silverstone's Why Study the Media? (1999) into Korean (2009).
Juraj Kittler is Assistant Professor in the Performance and Communication Arts and English departments at St. Lawrence University. His research focuses on the comprehensive history of the public sphere. It traces the gradual transformation of the institution of the Greek agora – both as a normative ideal as well as social reality – from classical Athens through a sequence of hegemonically positioned urban centers of the Western world.
Jennifer Logue is Assistant Professor of Education at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She writes on youth, media, education, and culture.
Carolyn Marvin is the Frances Yates Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous works in cultural studies, media history, and freedom of expression, including Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (with David W. Ingle, 1999) and When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (1988), which won the Fellows Book Award of the International Communication Association.
Cameron McCarthy is Professor in Education and Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies the relationship between culture, power, and education with a focus on intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in theory and in the classroom. He has published widely on topics related to postcolonialism, problems with neo-Marxist writings on class, race, and education, institutional support for teaching, and school ritual and adolescent identities in journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Oxford Review of Education, and the British Journal of the Sociology of Education. Professor McCarthy has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at Jesus College, the University of Cambridge, York University, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Newcastle, Monash University, the University of Salamanca, Spain, the University of Queensland, and the Saint Louis University of Madrid, Spain. He is the author of The Uses of Culture: Education and the Limits of Ethnic Affiliation (1997) and co-editor of Transnational Perspectives on Popular Culture and Public Policy (2009), Globalizing Cultural Studies (2007), and Race, Identity, and Representation in Education and Society (2005). With Angharad Valdivia, he is co-editor of the “Intersections in Communication and Culture” book series published by Peter Lang and the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. He is also one of the Senior Editors of the “Global Studies in Education” book series with Peter Lang.
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He writes widely on the history and political economy of the media. His books include Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy (1993), Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times (1999), The Problem of the Media: US Communication Politics in the 21st Century (2004), Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media (2007), and The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again, with John Nichols (2010). He is co-founder of Free Press and host of the syndicated radio show Media Matters.
Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Canada. He is formerly Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society and Professor of Sociology. Mosco is the author of numerous books on communication, technology, and society. His most recent include Getting the Message: Communications Workers and Global Value Chains (co-edited with Catherine McKercher and Ursula Huws, 2010), The Political Economy of Communication, second edition (2009), The Laboring of Communication: Will Knowledge Workers of the World Unite (co-authored with Catherine McKercher, 2008), Knowledge Workers in the Information Society (co-edited with Catherine McKercher, 2007), and The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (2004). The Digital Sublime won the 2005 Olson Award for outstanding book in the field of rhetoric and cultural studies.
John Nerone is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He writes on media history, journalism history, and normative media theory, and is the author or editor of Violence against the Press (1994), Last Rights (1995), and, with Kevin Barnhurst, The Form of News: A History (2001). He co-edits (with Robert W. McChesney) a book series in the History of Communication for the University of Illinois Press.
Kaarle Nordenstreng is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere, Finland. His main research interests are theory of communication, international communication, and media ethics. He has been Vice-President of the International Association for Mass Communication Research (1972–1988) and President of the International Organization of Journalists (1976–1990). He has written or edited over 40 books, including Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies (with Christians et al., 2009). He has published over 400 articles in scholarly journals and books, including The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy (2011).
Laurie Ouellette is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is co-author of Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship, co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, and author of Viewers Like You? How Public Television Failed the People. Her work has also appeared in a wide range of anthologies and journals, including Cultural Studies, Television and New Media, and Media, Culture and Society.
Jeremy Packer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University and a faculty member in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media PhD program. He is the author of Mobility Without Mayhem: Cars, Safety, and Citizenship (2008) and the editor or co-editor of Communication Matters: A Materialist Approach to Media, Networks, and Mobility (with Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, 2012), Secret Agents: Popular Icons Beyond James Bond (2009), Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History (with Craig Robertson, 2006), and Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality (with Jack Bratich and Cameron McCarthy, 2003).
John Durham Peters is A. Craig Baird Professor of Communication Studies, and Professor of International Studies, at the University of Iowa. He is the author of two books, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (1999) and Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (2005). He has written more than 50 journal articles and book chapters on the philosophy of communication, intellectual history of communication research, democratic theory, and cultural history of media. He co-edited, with Elihu Katz, Tamar Liebes, and Avril Orloff, Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? Should There Be? How About These? (2002) and, with Peter Simonson, Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919–1968 (2004).
Terhi Rantanen is Professor in Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published extensively on a range of topics related to global media and especially news. Her publications include When News Was New (2009), The Media and Globalization (2005), The Global and the National: Media and Communications in Post-Communist Russia (2002), and The Globalization of News (edited with Oliver Boyd-Barrett, 1998).
Craig Robertson is an assistant professor at Northeastern University. He is the author of The Passport in America: The History of a Document (2010), the editor of Media History and the Archive (2010), and the co-editor with Jeremy Packer of Thinking With James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History (2006).
Eric W. Rothenbuhler is Associate Dean of Scripps College of Communication and Professor of Media Arts and Studies, Ohio University. His teaching and research address media anthropology, media history, and communication systems ranging from ritual through community to media industries, with special interest in music, sound, and radio. He is co-editor (with Mihai Coman) of Media Anthropology (2005), author of Ritual Communication: From Everyday Conversation to Mediated Ceremony (1988), which has been translated into Polish (2003) and Persian (2008), co-editor (with Greg Shepherd) of Communication and Community (2001), and author or coauthor of over 60 articles, chapters, essays, and reviews on media, ritual, community, media industries, popular music, and communication theory. He earned his PhD in 1985 from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, was director of the Media Studies MA Program at New School University (2001–2004), and a faculty member at the University of Iowa (1985–2001) and Texas A&M University (2004–2010).
Peter Simonson is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has published or edited a number of works on the intellectual history, theory, and rhetoric of mass communication, including Refiguring Mass Communication: A History (2010) and Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919–1968 (with John Durham Peters).
Gretchen Soderlund is assistant professor of English and gender, sexuality, and women's studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. A media historian by training, she earned her doctorate in communications research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her forthcoming book considers the relationship among sensationalism, objectivity, and sex scandals over trafficking that transformed journalism at the turn of the last century. At Virginia Commonwealth University, she teaches in the interdisciplinary Media, Art, and Text PhD program.
Catherine Squires is the John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is the author of Dispatches from the Color Line: The Press and Multiracial America (2007) and African Americans and the Media (2009) and the co-editor with Heather Harris and Kimberly Moffitt of The Obama Effect (2010), along with numerous articles on journalism, the media, and race/ethnicity.
Inger L. Stole is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her work focuses on the history of consumer movements and present-day consumer activism, and the institutional history of the American advertising industry. She is the author of Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s (2006) and the co-editor with Janice Peck of A Moment of Danger: Critical Studies in the History of US Communication Since World War II (2011).
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University. She is the author of two books, Journalists and the Public (2007) and Citizens or Consumers? (coauthored with Justin Lewis and Sanna Inthorn, 2005), and is currently writing about Disasters and the Media (co-authored with Mervi Pantti and Simon Cottle). She is the editor of the Handbook of Journalism Studies (with Thomas Hanitzsch, 2009) and Mediated Citizenship (2007).
Qian Wang is a graduate student in the Department of Journalism and Communication, Nanchang University, China.
Frederick Wasser is Professor and Chair of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College. He is the author of many articles and books on the culture industries, including Steven Spielberg's America (2010) and Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR (2001), which won the Marshall McLuhan Award for the best book in the field of media ecology from the Media Ecology Association. His eclectic experience includes translating from Norwegian, editing cult classic grinder films, and working on a Mississippi tow barge.
Haidee Wasson is Associate Professor of Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University, Montreal. She has taught previously at the University of Minnesota and Harvard. She is author of the award-winning Museum Movies, co-editor (with Lee Grieveson) of Inventing Film Studies, and co-editor (with Charles Acland) of Useful Cinema. Her essays on film history, technology, and culture have appeared in numerous journals and edited collections, including Cinema Journal, Film History, Frameworks, The Moving Image, Continuum, and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies. She is currently writing a cultural history of small film technologies.
Jürgen Wilke is Professor for Communication Research (Publizistik) at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany. He is the author of numerous works on media history and sociology, news agencies and news selection, political communication, propaganda, and international communication. He has been Professor for Journalism at the Catholic University of Eichstält, President of the German Association for Communication Research (1986–1988), Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mainz (1998–2003), and Head of the History Section of IAMCR (1996–2000). He has taught at the University of Washington and the Lomonossow University, Moscow (Russia) and is a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna) and Visiting Professor at the University of Lugano (Switzerland).
Ronald J. Zboray is Professor of Communication and Director-Designate of Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where Mary Saracino Zboray is a Visiting Scholar in Communication and Affiliate Faculty Member in Cultural Studies. They teach courses there in media history. He is the author of A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public. The Zborays co-authored dozens of articles on book history in addition to A Handbook for the Study of Book History in the United States; Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People's History of the Mass Market Book; Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders (winner of the 2007 Book Prize of the AEJMC History Division); and Voices Without Votes: Women and Politics in Antebellum New England (winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award of the Eastern Communication Association).