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international conference [author names are linked to their abstracts, where applicable] Hal Abelson is professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is engaged in the interaction of law, policy, and technology as they relate to the growth of the Internet, and is active in projects at MIT and elsewhere to help bolster the intellectual commons. Abelson is a founding director of the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, and Public Knowledge and serves as consultant to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. email Katherine Aberbach is a graduate student in the Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown University. email Lanfranco Aceti is an honorary research fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London where his research focuses on the intersection of art, science and new media technology. email Lily Alexander has been teaching film and narrative/critical theory since 1997 in Toronto and New York, and is currently affiliated with New York University. email Mike Ananny is a doctoral candidate and Trudeau Scholar in Stanford University’s Communication Department where he researches technology-supported civic communication. email Bill Arning is curator at MIT's List Visual Arts Center. Since joining the List Visual Arts Center in 2000 he has organized such acclaimed exhibitions as America Starts Here - Ericson and Ziegler ( 2006), which was awarded first prize for best monographic show in a Boston museum by the International Association of Art Critics; Thoughts Unsaid, Then Forgotten (2005); Son et Lumire (2004); and Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude. As a writer on art and culture, Arning's essays have been published in Time Out New York, Apeture, The Village Voice, Art in America and Parkett. email Giovanni Boccia Artieri is professor of sociology of new media at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo.” Ivan Askwith (CMS '07) is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies. He is preparing chapters on Lost for publication in two forthcoming books. email Ben Aslinger is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communications Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. email Sanjay Asthana is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at Middle Tennessee State University. email Sule Atilgan is a faculty member in the Baskent University Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University where she also directs the Center for Social Media. She is the author of several books including Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (2007), The Daily Planet (2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest (1999). She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival. She received a career achievement award in 2006 from the International Documentary Association. email Alec Austin (CMS '07) is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies and a videogame designer involved in the GAMBIT Game Lab. email Burcu Bakioglu is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University where she is writing her dissertation on narrative in digital texts, including virtual worlds. email J.A. Ball is a doctoral candidate in the Theatre History & Cultural Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently a visiting assistant professor of dramatic literature at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. John Banks is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Federation Fellowship program, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. Jeffrey Bardzell ia an assistant professor of human-computer interaction design in the School of Informatics at Indiana University. email Jim Bell is an audio professional and new media artist based in Montreal studying fine arts at Concordia University. Fred Benenson is a graduate student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU where he co-founded the Free Culture@NYU chapter of FreeCulture.org. email Paul Benzon is a doctoral student in English at Rutgers University and a fellow at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis. email Jamie Skye Bianco is assistant professor in the English Department at Queens College and in the Women’s Studies Certificate Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. email Wafaa Bilal is an instructor in the Photography Department and the Art and Technology Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Matts Bjorkin is a senior lecturer in film studies and head of the Department of Culture, Aesthetics and Media at Goteborg University, Sweden. email Erik Blankinship is a co-founder of Media Modifications, a new start-up whose mission is to expose and enhance the structure of media to make its full learning and creative potential accessible to all. He has many years of experience working with children as an inventor of educational technologies and activities and as a researcher studying the potential of digital media for teaching and learning literature, history, mathematics, and game design. While an undergrad at the University of Maryland, College Park he was a recipient of the Jim Henson Award for Projects Related to Puppetry. email Heather Blatt is a graduate student at Fordham University. email Goran Bolin is professor in media and communication studies at Sodertorn University College, Sweden, and is research director at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies. He is the author or editor of eight books, most recently the edited volume The Challenge of the Baltic Sea Region. Culture, Ecosystems, Democracy (2005). email Maurizio Borghi is a researcher at ASK Research Center of Bocconi University of Milan. He has been visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley School of Law. email Martin Boyden is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Rochester. email Leonie Bradbury is gallery director and curator at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. Her specialty is 20th-century art, theory, and criticism. email Brent C.J. Britton is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and a lawyer. He writes and speaks extensively on issues of intellectual property and entrepreneurship. email Sarah Brouillette is an assistant professor in literature at MIT. Her current research is about transnational capital and the culture industries in post-Troubles Northern Ireland. email Axel Bruns lectures in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production and is developing From Production to Produsage: The Rise of Collaborative Content Creation, forthcoming from Peter Lang. email Jean Burgess is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. email Anne Burke is a doctoral student in the Center for Media Research, University of Ulster. email Kristina Busse teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Alabama and is the co-editor of Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet (2006). James Buzard is professor and head of the Literature Faculty at MIT. He has written two books, Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Justin Callaway is a graduate student in media studies at the New School University. email Candis Callison is a doctoral candidate in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, where she eanred a master's degree from Comparative Media Studies ('02). email Alison C. Carey is at Temple University. J.R. Carpenter is a poet, fiction writer and web artist based in Montreal. A two-time winner of the CBC Quebec Short Story Competition, she serves as president of the board of the Oboro New Media Lab in Montreal. email Manuel Castells is professor of communication and Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, USC. He is the author of 22 books including the trilogy, The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture. Michael Century is professor in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which he joined in 2002. Long associated with The Banff Centre for the Arts, Century founded the Centre's Media Arts Division in 1988. email Keidra Chaney is web content editor for the School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems at DePaul University. email Yi Chen is a master's candidate in film and media arts at American University. She was an intern at National Geographic TV & Film and a graduate associate at the Center for Environmental Filmmaking. email Shu-Hua Cheng is a professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan. Shira Chess is a doctoral student in communication and rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. email Alex Chisholm is founder of ICE CUB3D, a media research and development consultancy that creates transmedia entertainment and educational properties. He is co-director with Eric Klopfer of The Education Arcade, and has collaborated on research and product development with Microsoft, NBC Universal and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. email Kimberly Christen is an assistant professor in the Comparative Ethnic Studies Department at Washington State University. email Laurie Churchman is assistant professor of fine arts and graphic design at the University of Pennsylvania. email Anthony Ciolli serves as chief education director of AutoAdmit.com, and will join the law firm Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge as a litigation associate in its Boston office in the fall. email Tony Cokes, who teaches art at Brown University, uses videotapes and installations to explore personal, cultural and historical constructions. Cokes's works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum Soho, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and other venues. email Francesca Coppa is director of film studies and associate professor of English at Muhlenberg College. email Jay Critchley is a conceptual, visual and performance artist. email Giuliana Cucinelli is a doctoral student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. email Brady Curlew is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Graduate Programme in Communication & Culture, York University and Ryerson University, Toronto. email Jim Cypher is a multimedia artist who uses appropriated music and images to make social commentary and counter-cultural political statements. He has a weekly community access television show in Somerville Massachusetts. email Tracy Daniels (CMS '07) is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies where she works with the Convergence Culture Consortium (C3). email Drew Davidson is professor at Carnegie Mellon University where he is helping to launch the Entertainment Technology Center open-source multimedia press, ETC Press. email Hugh Davies is an Australian artist whose work is concerned with the authenticity of rarity in mass produced culture and collectables. email Maire Messenger Davies is professor of media studies and director of the Centre for Media Research in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, with special responsibility for policy research. email Suzanne de Castell is a professor in the Faculty of Education in Curriculum and Instruction at Simon Fraser University where he specializes in literacy, new media and educational technology studies. She has published widely across these fields, and was senior editor for the books Literacy, Society and Schooling; Language, Authority and Criticism; and Radical Interventions. email Peter Decherney is assistant professor of cinema studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite (2005). email Thomas F. DeFrantz is professor of theater arts and dance at MIT. He is the artistic director of SLIPPAGE Performance| Culture| Technology, in residence at MIT, and recently authored QUEER THEORY! An Academic Travesty. email Andy Dehnart teaches writing and journalism at Stetson University in Florida and publishes reality blurred. A contributing writer for MSNBC, his writing on television, culture, and media has appeared in Salon and elsewhere. email Joseph Delappe is chair of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno and the head of the digital media section. email Julia de Roeper is a lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of South Australia. She was director of industry development with the South Australian Film Corporation until 2000. email Juan Devis is a new media producer at KCET/PBS Los Angeles in charge of all original web content including Web Stories, KCETs multimedia webzine. He is currently working with the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy to develop a serious game based on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Devis was recently awarded a writer's fellowship at ABC/Disney for his original screenplay Welcome to Tijuana which is scheduled for production early in 2008. Devis is president of the board of Freewaves, a non-profit media arts organization, and the project manager for OpenPlay. email Denise DiIanni is director of WGBH (Boston) Labs and works in short form for the small screen with local filmmakers. email Peter Donaldson is professor of literature, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and director of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive. Since 1992, the Archive has used computers to develop new ways of studying the text, image and film records of Shakespearean publication and production. email Kristina Drzaic (CMS ’07) is a master's candidate in MIT Comparative Media Studies finishing on her thesis "Oh No I'm Toast! Videogame Secrets in Theory and Practice." She serves as a videogame designer for both The Education Arcade and the GAMBIT game lab. email Matt Dunleavy is director of Harvard Graduate School of Education Augmented Reality Programs who works on narrative development in educational mobile games. email Elena Dyakova is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. email Meral Ekincioglu is a research scholar in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture in the History of Art and Architecture Department, Harvard, and doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University. email Jan Egleson is a director and actor who has worked in all areas of film and theater production. He most recently directed Coyote Waits, based on the novel by Tony Hillerman, for the PBS Mystery! In 2000, he was awarded the Vision Award by the Boston Film and Video Foundation for Lifetime Achievement in Independent Film. email Nathan Epley is a doctoral candidate in media and cultural studies at the University of North Carolina and teaches media production and criticism at the University of Northern Iowa. email Michael Epstein (CMS '04) is the CEO of Untravel Media, a company that develops mobile media documentaries for cell phones and iPods, and is a research affiliate in the Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies, MIT. email Andrew Feldstein is a doctoral candidate in marketing at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business. email Anthony Fellow is chair of the Department of Communications in the College of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. email Kurt Fendt is research associate in Foreign Languages and Literatures and manger of the Metamedia Research Group in the Comparative Media Studies Program. He directs the HyperStudio, a development lab for digital humanities projects. emailPaolo Ferri is associate professor in the Department of Human Science at the State University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. email Amanda Finkelberg (CMS '07) is a master’s candidate in MIT Comparative Media Studies completing her thesis, “Space, Place and Database: Digital Cartography and the Network.” Before joining CMS, Finkelberg worked as a visual effects artist for feature films and is the founder of the Santa Monica VFX boutique Rig-Out. email Adam Fish is a graduate student in critical studies in film, television, and digital media at UCLA. He is completing a first-person documentary on spiritual tourism in Sikkim, India, called Tantric Tourists. email Amanda Ford is administrative assistant for MIT Comparative Media Studies. She has presented at the national Popular Culture Association conference on interdisciplinary studies in higher education and has taken further classes in history. email Sam Ford (CMS '07) is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies where his research focuses on storytelling in American popular culture. email Martin Fredriksson is a graduate student at Tema Q (Department of Cultural Studies) at the University of Linkoping, Sweden, where his dissertation is on the history of Swedish copyright law. email Alisa Freedman is assistant professor in Japanese Literature and Film in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon.email Yair Galily chairs mass media studies at Zinman College, Wingate Institute, Israel. email Sean Galvin is an urban folklorist in New York City and adjunct professor at LaGuardia Community College. His doctoral dissertation was on satiric ballads in the Faeroe Islands. He is author of a monograph on Southern African-American quilters living in New York City, and co-author of Jews of Brooklyn. email Cristobal Garcia (CMS '04) is a research affiliate in MIT Comparative Media Studies and an associate at Columbia University's Network Architecture Laboratory (NetLab). email Cabell Gathman is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a visiting scholar in MIT Comparative Media Studies this spring. email Robert Gehl is a doctoral student in cultural studies at George Mason University. email Rahilya Geybullayeva is head of the Journalism and Azerbaijani Literature Department at Baku Slavic University. email Fabio Giglietto is author of To the Roots of the Future, From Information Theory to Social Systems: An Introduction (2006) and member of the Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics (International Sociological Assosciation). email Joan Giglione is an accountant business lecturer at California State University, Channel Islands whose corporate clients include ABC, A&M Records, MTM Television and The Family Channel, Hanna Barbera, and Tri-Star Pictures. She participates in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by judging Emmy entries for student and regional professional competitions. email Tarleton Gillespie is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, and currently a fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford School of Law. His first book is Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (2007). email Marissa Gluck, formerly a senior analyst at Jupiter Research, is co-founder and managing partner of Radar Research. email Eric Gordon is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston. His book The Urban Spectator: Emerging Media and the Consumption of the American City is forthcoming from Wayne State University Press. email Wendy Gordon is a professor of law and Paul J. Liacos Scholar in Law at Boston University. In many well-known articles, she has argued for an expansion of fair use utilizing economic, Lockean, and ethical perspectives. email Michael Grabowski is assistant professor of communication at The College of New Rochelle. He won two Emmy Awards while working in television. email Jonathan Gray is assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. He is author of Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality, and co-editor of the forthcoming Fandom: Identities and Communites in a Mediated World. email Matthew Gray is assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. He also lectures at the Tepper School of Business, and is an associate lecturer and director at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. email Joshua Green is postdoctoral associate in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and research manager of the Convergence Culture Consortium. Before coming to MIT, he worked as a researcher in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology. email Tor Grenness is associate professor in the Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo. email Neal Grigsby is a graduate student in CMS currently finishing his thesis on adolescence narratives. He is also a research assistant on the New Media Literacies project. email Slawomir Grzonkowski is a researcher at Digital Enterprise Robert Gustafson is associate professor in cinema and television arts and option head in the media management sequence at California State University, Northridge, where he is the director of the Entertainment Industry Institute. email Elizabeth Guzick is ABD in the English Department at the University of Southern California. email Paul Ham is working on his J.D. at Boston College Law School. He was the co-founder and CTO of YourCompass, developing personalization software. email Naomi Hamer is a doctoral student at the School for Culture, Language and Communication, Institute of Education, University of London. email Jessica Hammer is a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University, and a member of the EGGPLANT games research group. email Darlene Hampton received her MA in English Literature from the University of Oregon where she plans to enter a doctoral program. email Christine "xtine" Hanson is an assistant professor of visual communications at California State University, Fullerton, and a media artist who engages viewers via the Internet. Recent projects include delocator.net, mailavirus.net, and dosomethingmoreamazing.com. email Marina Hassapopoulou teaches writing and film studies at the University of Oregon. email Christopher Hastings is post production supervisor for Boston Media Productions at WGBH and has been with the foundation for four years. His projects at WGBH have included ZOOM, Teaching Reading 3-5, and the Living with TSC website. email Robin Hauck (CMS ’03) is founder of the website Misstropolis, writer for the film program at the Museum of Fine Arts and a consultant to Chelsea Pictures. Previously, she worked in television commercials assisting directors such as Spike Jones, David Fincher and Simon West at Propaganda Films. email Kate Hennessy is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and a recent Trudeau Scholar. As assistant editor of the Visual Anthropology Review, she designed its first multimedia CD-ROM edition. email Bill Herman is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Todd Herreman teaches recording, producing and music business at Southern Illinois University. A music industry veteran as producer, songwriter, composer, engineer and session musician, his clients have included Prince, Michael Jackson, Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck. email Lucas Hilderbrand is a postdoctoral fellow in critical studies at the University of Southern California. His manuscript Inherent Vice: Access, Aesthetics, and Videotape Bootlegging is under review at Duke University Press. email Benjamin Mako Hill is a graduate student at the MIT Media Laboratory. He has been an leader, developer, and contributor to the free and open source software community for more than a decade as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects. email Renee Hobbs is associate professor of communication and education at Temple University where she directs the Media Education Lab. She has worked extensively with state departments of education in Maryland and Texas, and her new book Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English (2007) provides empirical evidence to document how media literacy improves adolescents' reading comprehension skills. email Michael Hoechsmann teaches media and technology in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. Previously, he was the director of education for Young People’s Press. Alina Hogea is assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest. email John Hopkins practices a nomadic form of performative art and teaching that has taken him to more than 20 countries and 50 institutions across Europe and North America. He studied film with experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage and was recently artist-in-residence at the Sibelius Academy's Center for Music and Technology in Helsinki, Finland. Mary Hopper is an instructor in Northeastern University’s new Digital Media Program and president of Knowledge Foundry, a firm that specializes in the construction of virtual knowledge spaces. email He Huang is a Master of Science candidate in MIT Comparative Media Studies. She is now finishing her thesis on Chinese animation cinema and the Chinese nation. At the same time she works for metamedia research group. email Theo Hug is associate professor of educational sciences at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. email Aldon Hynes founded Connecticut for Dean and received credentials from the Democratic Party to cover its national convention as a blogger. He went on to help instigate Ned Lamont's run for Senate, and served as Lamont's technology director. Lewis Hyde is the Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College and a fellow of the Berkman Center on Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. He is a poet and essayist whose current book project is a defense of cultural commons. His book Trickster Makes This World (1999) is a portrait of the kind of disruptive imagination needed to keep any culture flexible and lively. email Sandra Indian is the principal at the Onigaming Mikinaak School, Nestor Falls, Ontario, Canada. email Bjorn Ingvoldstad is an assistant professor of media studies and communication technologies at Bridgewater State College. email Ismael Isfandiary is a graduate student of communication at Allametabatabai University, Tehran, Iran. email Digdem Isikoglu is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Istanbul University. Mizuko (Mimi) Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She has been conducting ongoing research on kids’ technoculture in Japan and the US, and is co-editor of Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. She is a research scientist at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and a visiting associate professor at Keio University in Japan. email Helen Jackson is a lecturer at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster. Josh Jackson is a doctoral student in the Department Communication Arts, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. email Brian Jacobson (CMS '05) is a doctoral student in the Critical Studies Program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. email Ravi Jain is a Boston-based artist who develops interactive content for the PBS series American Experience and teaches at Northeastern University and the Massachusetts College of Art. email Henry Jenkins is co-director of Comparative Media Studies and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT. He is the author and/or editor of several books on various aspects of media and popular culture including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and is the author of the blog Confessions of an ACA/Fan. email Jennifer Jenson is associate professor of pedagogy and technology in the Faculty of Education at York University. She is lead author on the book Policy Unplugged forthcoming from McGill-Queen's University Press. email Liwen Jin (CMS '08) is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies where her research focuses on the role of media in facilitating political democratization and international cultural understanding. email France Jobin aka i8u is a sound / installation / web artist from Montreal. Her web work/ installations have been shown at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Toronto's Images independent film festival and at MIVEAM 06. contact Derek Johnson is a doctoral candidate in media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. email Robert Jones is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Culture & Communication, NYU. email Will Jordan is a doctoral student in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. email Masahiko Kambe engages in new media development projects at Hakuhodo, a Japanese advertising company. He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. email Marja Kankaanranta is a senior researcher at the Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, where she leads Agora Game Lab. email Peter B. Kaufman associate director of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, president of Intelligent Television, and director of the Open Education Video Project. email Gary Keller is director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles about Mexican-American and Latino literature, art, film, linguistics and language policy. email Adam Kendall is a multimedia artist living and working in Brooklyn. Through his own work and the A/V series he curates, he explores the limits of video improvisation. contact Lori Kendall is an associate professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. email Paul Kim is an MFA candidate in film and media arts at American University where he serves as a research assistant for the Center for Environmental Filmmaking. email Leila Kinney is an art historian and taught in the History, Theory and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at MIT before joining CMS. Her research and publications address hybrid genres, new visual technologies in the nineteenth century, and the virtual museum. email Kasja Klein is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Media, Journalism and Communication, Stockholm University. She is also an activist involved in web-based initiatives such as DemocracyAid.net, TalktoUS.org and TheWorldSpeaks.net. email Eric Klopfer is director of MIT's Teacher Education Program and assistant professor of science education. email Nicholas Knouf is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab where his research focuses on robotic creatures as psychological and social catalysts. email Melanie E. S. Kohnen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Civilization at Brown University. email Derek Kompare is an assistant professor in the Division of Cinema-Television in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television (2005). email Nariyo Kono is an assistant professor in the Applied Linguistics Department and the Native American Studies Program at Portland State University. She has been working with the Native American communities in the Northwest. email koosil-ja is a New York-based radical dance artist who tests limits of dancers, movement, technology, space and audience and continues to develop a new paradigm for performance. She is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow. email Martin Koplin of SHARE Bremen is coordinator of the research group mobile2culture at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen, where he is a doctoral student in computer science. contact Orit Kuritsky is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies, writing a thesis on American makeover programs. email Anne Kustritz is a doctoral candidate in the University of Michigan's American Culture program. email Pilar Lacasa is professor of developmental psychology and education at the University of Alcala, Spain where she directs the Cultures, Technology and New Literacies Research Group. email Kurt Lancaster is the author of several books and teaches filmmaking at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. email Elsa M. Lankford is an assistant professor in the electronic media and film, audio track at Towson University where her current projects include Eight Ways to Find and Tell a Story and Lawn Culture. email Andres Laracuente approaches art making as adventure, and frequently focuses on the idea of existence in mediation. With past exhibits in Chicago, New York, Berlin, and Paris, he is currently developing a documentary of art making in collaboration with artists across the U.S. email Catalina Laserna is a lecturer in social anthropology at Harvard and director of the Educational Technologies Program at the Harvard Extension School. email Mark Latonero is assistant professor of communications at California State University, Fullerton. email Aubree Ann Lawrence is pursuing a master's degree in the Visual Media Arts Department at Emerson College. email Shawn Lawson is an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a media artist and programmer examining the phenomena of interaction and experience between human-machine and reality-simulation. email Katherine Liberovskaya is a video and media artist and a founding member of SHARE Montreal. Her recent work revolves around collaborations with new music composers/ sound artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If, Bwana and David Watson. Michael Liegl teaches sociological theory, science and technology studies, ethnography and visual studies in the sociology departments of the University of Munich and University of Mainz. He is exploring the collaborative practices of digital media artists by focusing on the SHARE community. Chi-Jui Lien is a professor in the Department of Science Education, National Taipei University of Education. Mathew Lincez works for the Beal Institute for Strategic Creativity at the Ontario College of Art & Design. email Rikard Lindell is a doctoral student and is teaching interactive design and game development at Mlardalens University, Sweden. email Anastasia Logotheti is assistant professor of English at Deree College, The American College of Greece, and author of the forthcoming book From History to Storytelling: Confession and Redemption in the Novels of Graham Swift. email Andres Lombana (CMS '08) is a first year graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. He has been involved in different projects as an electronic music maker since 1999 and has designed sound for film, video art, theater, interactive media and contemporary dance. Lombana is currentrly producing music with elektrodomestika. emailGeoffrey Long (CMS '07) is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies and researcher for the Convergence Culture Consortium. email Yu-ling Lu is professor in the Department of Science Education at National Taipei University of Education. She will be a visiting scholar in MIT Comparative Media Studies this fall. email Debora Lui (CMS '08) is a graduate student in MIT Comparative Media Studies where she works with the New Media Literacies research group. email Susan Luckman is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of South Australia. email Mary Madden is a senior research specialist with the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington, D.C. She has authored numerous publications for the Project, including "Artists, Musicians and the Internet." email Stewart Mader publishes the blog Using Wiki in Education, which focuses on using the wiki for collaborative curriculum development and group learning, and includes interviews with wiki makers and users, example wiki uses, and product reviews. email Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the founder and director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and author of the book The Future of Work. Malone has published over 75 articles, research papers, and book chapters and is an inventor with 11 patents. email Marlene Manoff is the associate head of the MIT Humanities Library. She has written about the impact of electronic access on scholarly research, the symbolic value of libraries in a digital age, and the broader historical context in which digital objects and collections are created. email Anton Marini is a New York-based video engineer and new media programmer who frequently collaborates at SHARE. He has participated in events such as Anyware, Share Montreal, Eyewash, Rake, Share @ The Kitchen, and Share at Club Transmediale. Martin Marks is a senior lecturer in music at MIT who specializes in film music, and performs and records piano accompaniments for many silent films. His work is featured on two award-winning DVD collections for which he served as music curator: Treasures from American Film Archives: 50 Preserved Films (2000), and More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931 (2004), both produced by the National Film Preservation Foundation. email Michelle Materre is assistant professor of media studies at The New School University and an independent media consultant, advising filmmakers and organizations on fundraising, distribution, marketing, and exhibition. She sits on the board of directors of New York Women in Film and Television. email Geoff Matters is a DJ who uses homemade and repurposed physical controllers in live and interactive music performances. He composed and performed music and video for dance pieces including Live Processing (2006) and Dance Without Bodies (2006). Artur Matuck is a visual artist and professor at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. email Michael Maynard is associate professor and chair of the Department of Advertising at Temple University, where his research includes cultural and textual analyses of television and print advertising in Japan. email Cahal McLaughlin is a senior lecturer at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at the University of Ulster. A documentary filmmaker, he most recently directed Inside Stories: Memories of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison (2005). John McMurria is assistant professor of communication at DePaul University. email Karl Mendonca is a graduate student in film and media at The New School University. email Amanda Michel was national director of Generation Dean, Howard Dean’s official youth outreach program as well as director of the Media Corps program on the Kerry campaign. She is currently director of participation for the test phase of NewAssignment.Net Kim Middleton is an assistant professor of English and the director of American studies at The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY. email Michael Mittelman is founder and editor of ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD periodical. He is also an active artist with exhibitions at the List Visual Arts Center, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and ArtSpace, New Haven. email Jason Mittell is assistant professor of American studies and film and media culture at Middlebury College. He is author of Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (2004) and a forthcoming introductory book on television and American culture, and authors the blog Just TV. email Maria Lilla Montagnani is assistant professor in commercial law at Bocconi University of Milan. email Nick Montfort is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, author of Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (2003), and co-editor of The New Media Reader (2003). Montfort's digital media collaborations include the Grand Text Auto and The Ed Report. email Patrick Moore is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Douglas Morgenstern is senior lecturer in Spanish at MIT, where he directs the MITUPV Exchange, a multimedia web project with the Universidad Politcnica de Valencia in Spain. email Joanne Morreale is associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. email Dustin Morrow is a lecturer in the Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media at Temple University. email Eggo Mueller is assistant professor in the Institute Media and Culture, Utrecht University. email Warwick Mules is a teacher and researcher in the School of Arts and Creative Enterprise, Central Queensland University, Australia. He is the co-author of Introducing Cultural and Media Studies, and is currently writing a book entitled Contact Aesthetics on media sense and the interface. email Colm Murphy teaches journalism at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Rekha Murthy (CMS '05) is an information architect in Boston whose research interests include social content for Web and mobile platforms and how people use the streetscape to communicate. email James Nadeau is a video artist, curator and independant film programmer based in Boston. He is a 2006 graduate of MIT Comparative Media Studies. email Keertia Nagappa is at the University of Law, Hyderabad, India. email Meena Nair is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada. email Alok Nandi is an artist whose work focuses on cross-media design, combining the Internet with other communication channels, articulating verb and space. email Vinicius Navarro is a professor in the Department of Television, Film, and Digital Media at the Methodist University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. email Elizabeth Neely is an MBA candidate at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and manager of Museum Information Systems at the Art Institute of Chicago. email Michael Newman teaches film and media studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. email Thinh Nguyen is counsel for Science Commons. email Liz Nofziger is a Boston-based multimedia artist who is creating a large-scale solo exhibition for the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College, Chicago to open this spring. email Anna Notaro is programme leader in contemporary media theory at the School of Media Arts and Imaging, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee (Scotland). email Azuka Nzegwu is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture (PIC) at Binghamton University, whose area of specialization is on theoretical approaches that engage and utilize web-based technologies. She uses open source technology as the primary language for developing research-based multimedia rich modules, localized portals and networks, electronic publication, digital archives, digital cultures and histories, and global repositories that would expand our knowledge base. Casey O'Donnell is a doctoral candidate in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. email Cory Ondrejka is the chief technology officer at Linden Lab where he leads the team developing Second Life. He also spearheaded the decision to allow users to retain the IP rights to their creations and helped craft Linden's virtual real estate policy. While an officer in the United States Navy, he worked at the National Security Agency and graduated from the Navy Nuclear Power School. email Jamie O’Neil is assistant professor in the Digital Media Arts Communication Studies Department, Canisius College, Buffalo. 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I that role, he has written/ produced/ directed a number of productions including From the Bard to the Bounce: A Hip-Hop Shakespeare Experience, Kwanzaa Song, The Great Battle for the Air, About Me and the Adventure (with Community Prep and the Rhode Island School for the Deaf) and four Annual Black History Month Celebrations at Portsmouth Abbey. Pitts-Wiley was resident artist at Brown University Summer High School in 2001. Jennifer Porst is a doctoral student in critical studies in UCLA’s graduate school of Film, Television, and Digital Media. She has worked on film productions in New York and Los Angeles. email Jeff Porter is an assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa. email Henry Puente is an assistant professor in entertainment studies at California State University, Fullerton. email Alexandre Quessy is a student in communication at Universite du Quebec Montreal specialized in interactive medias. 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As a video and sound artist, she works almost exclusively with "found" film. email Maggie Burnette Stogner teaches at American University where she is New Media Literacy project co-director at the Center for Social Media. She is owner of the independent production company Blue Bear Films. She has worked in documentary film for over 20 years, and is a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. email Thomas Streeter is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vermont and author of Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States. email Morgan Sully is an electro-acoustic composer, performer and dj, and founder of the San Diego node of SHARE. 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A journalist turned cultural historian and media scholar, he is the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (2006) and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (2001). email Rebecca Tushnet is an associate professor of law at Georgetown who clerked for Supreme Court Associate Justice David H. Souter, and who has represented several fan fiction websites in disputes with copyright and trademark owners. email Keiko Uenishi (o.blaat) is a sound artivist, composer, creator of interactive environments, and core member of SHARE, an organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities. contact Maura Ugarte is an MFA candidate in film and media arts at American University and a graduate associate at the Center for Social Media, where she works in video production and web technologies. Among the documentaries she has edited, Waiting for Spring won the 2003 IDA Student Documentary Achievement Award for best documentary. email William Uricchio is co-director of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and professor of comparative media history at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. His most recent book is Media Cultures, on responses to media in post-9/11 Germany and the U.S. email Siva Vaidhyanathan is associate professor of culture and communication at New York University and a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (2004) and Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity (2001). Vaidhyanathan's writings appear in many publications and on his Sivacracy blog. email Jose van Dijck is professor of media and culture in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. email Joost van Dreunen is a doctoral student at Columbia University, where he is project manager on a study of media ownership at the Columbia Business School. email Anna van Someren is video producer for the MacArthur Foundation's New Media Literacies (NML) project. email Philipp von Hilgers is a visting scholar in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. email Nanna Verhoeff is assistant professor at the Institute for Media and Re/ presentation, Utrecht University, where she teaches media theory and historical media comparison. 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She is co-editor of World of Warcraft, forthcoming from the MIT Press. email Andrea Walsh, who teaches in the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, is a sociologist whose research has focused primarily on the representation of women and gender in visual media, such as documentary and feature film, as well as television. email Peter Walsh is consultant to the president of Colby-Sawyer College. An art and architecture critic and former chairman of the Massachusetts Art Commission, he has worked as a staff member, writer, editor, or consultant for Dartmouth College, the Harvard University Art Museums and National Public Radio. email McKenzie Wark is associate professor of media studies at Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research. email Yuichi Washida is a research affiliate of MIT Comparative Media Studies and works for Hakuhodo Inc., a Japanese advertising firm. email S. Craig Watkins writes about race, youth, media, and technology. His most recent book is Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement. He is currently working on a book examining the social consequences and implications of young people's changing media behaviors. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin. email Craig P. Webb is a printmaker with a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design who incorporates digital images extensively in his work. Heather Tillberg Webb is doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia and an instructional designer and digital media educator. email Courtney Weida is a doctoral candidate in art education at Columbia University Teachers College. email Margaret Weigel (CMS '02) is the research manager for New Media Literacies where she coordinates a team of graduate students, consultants, and media and education professionals. She produces content for the AR handheld gaming company Urban Interactives, and contributes to WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, on digital and visual culture. email Evan Wendel (CMS ‘08) is currently doing research on alternative models for the production, marketing, and distribution of independently produced music. Specifically, he is considering how social networking sites (like MySpace Music), high-quality digital formats, and artist-run pay-to-play sites can reinvigorate the DIY ethic of music-making by effectively cutting out the middleman (i.e., the “record industry”). email Agnieszka Wenninger is a scientific staff member at the Social Science Information Centre Bonn/Berlin. email Virginia Wright Wexman is Professor Emerita of English and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently at work on a book about the Directors Guild of America. email Andy White is a research associate in the Centre for Media Research at Northern Ireland’s University of Ulster. Mark Willis is a writer and disability activist who works as a research administrator at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. email Dan Winckler is a performing artist and teacher of improvisational theater, networked collaboration and new media performance. He is one of the volunteer organizers of Share NYC and co-directs Kids Connect. contact Eva Hemmungs Wirten is associate professor in library and information science and comparative literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her most recent book is No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization (2004). email D.E. Wittkower is a visiting assistant professor at Virginia Tech. email Sarah Wolozin is the program administrator for MIT Compoarative Media Studies. Before arriving at CMS, she produced documentaries and websites for PBS and cable for over 10 years on topics ranging from African-American arts to American healthcare. email Winnie Wong, a doctoral student in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art at MIT, studies transnational issues in consumer culture, intellectual property, and 20th century art and visual culture. She will be writing her dissertation on Dafen village, the global production center for handmade oil paintings located in Shenzhen, China. email Weihua Wu is a postdoctoral fellow in the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. email Joanne Teoh Kheng Yau is a Singapore-based journalist and filmmaker with an interest in internet culture. 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