speakers

[author names are linked to their abstracts, where applicable]

Lanfranco Aceti works as an academic, artist and curator. He is associate professor in contemporary art and digital culture at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul. email

Paul Arthur is a research fellow at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, and an adjunct fellow of the Australian National University. In 2008-9 he will be a visiting research fellow at Rutgers University. email

Ben Aslinger is an assistant professor of media and culture in the Department of English at Bentley University in Waltham, Ma. email  

Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University where she directs the Center for Social Media. email

Burcu Bakioglu is a doctoral student at Indiana University. She received a B.A. from the Department of English at Bogazici University, Istanbul. email

Gabriele Balbi is an assistant professor in the history of communication at the university of Lugano, Switzerland. email

Miranda Banks is an assistant professor of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College. She is co-editor of the forthcoming Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries (Routledge, May 2009). email

Brian Bantugan is the institutional research officer of St. Paul University in Manila. email

Paul Benzon teaches writing, popular media, and contemporary fiction at Temple University. email

Hanno Biber is a researcher at the AAC-Austrian Academy Corpus. email

Robert Biddle is professor of human computer interaction at Carleton University in Ottawa. email

Jim Bizzocchi is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. An alum of MIT CMS,  he is also a practicing video artist. email

Mats Bjorkin is a senior lecturer in film studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. email

Goran Bolin is a professor in the Department of Media & Communication Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. email             

Josh Braun is a Ph.D. student in communication at Cornell University. email

Evelyn Breiteneder is the head of the AAC-Austrian Academy Corpus, a research department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and part of the Austrian Digital Heritage Initiative. email

Pat Brereton is the acting dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dublin City University. email

Mark Bresnan is a doctoral student in English at the University of Iowa. email

Sarah Brouillette is an assistant professor in the Literature Section at MIT. email

Mary Bryson is professor and director of Network of Centers and Institutes in Education (NCIE) & Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI), Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. email

Anne Burdick is the chair of the Graduate Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. email

Jean Burgess is a research fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is the author with Joshua Green of the forthcoming book YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, to be published by Polity Press in 2009. email

Jonathan Butler teaches creative writing and American literature at Kainan University in Taiwan and is working on a critical study of the poet John Burnside. email

Alison Byerly is a professor of English, provost and executive vice President at Middlebury College. She is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University and is completing a book manuscript Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism. email

John Edward Campbell holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and works in the areas of critical media studies and political economy of communication. email  

Jami Carlacio is a lecturer in the Department of English at Cornell. email

J. R. Carpenter is a poet, fiction writer and web artist whose novel, Words the Dog Knows, was published by Conundrum Press (Montreal, 2008). She serves as president of the board of directors of OBORO New Media Lab in Montreal. email

Pieranna Cavalchini is curator of contemporary art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. email

Nicola Cavalli is a researcher in the QUA_SI projct at the University of Milan-Bicocca. email

Erik Champion is an associate professor and director of postgraduate studies and research at the Auckland School of Design, Massey University (NZ). email

Keidra Chaney is emerging media specialist at DePaul University, working on social media initiatives for the Office of Advancement. She blogs at The Learned Fangirl. email

Jessica Clark directs the Future of Public Media project in the Center for Social Media at American University. In addition, she is the editor-at-large of In These Times, a national monthly magazine of news, analysis and cultural reporting. With Tracy Van Slyke, she blogs about contemporary media issues at Build the Echo. email

Jody Clarke is a doctoral candidate in Learning and Teaching program and director of the Virtual Assessments project in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. email

Francis D. Coffey is pursuing graduate research in media, religion and culture while teaching religion to senior adolescents in a provincial high school in Toronto. email

Roderick Coover is a professor in the Department of Film & Media Arts at Temple University whose works blend aspects of media arts, humanities and social science research in the portrayal of places and their cultures. email

Elisabetta Costa is a is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Milano-Bicocca University. email

Robert Cullen is the information resource manager for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in Washington, D.C. and serves on the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Library and Information Science for Transportation.  email

Magda da Cunha teaches in the Graduate Program of Social Comunication at Catholic University in Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil. email

Leif Dahlberg teaches media and literature in the School of Computer Science and Communication at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. email

Kristen Daly works for Festival Film Jakmel, a foundation that runs a free film festival and year-long educational training workshops in video in Haiti. email

Michael Darroch is an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Windsor and is a co-investigator on the Visual City Project and Archive at York University. email

Ben Howell Davis is a principal in the new media consulting firm Bone-Davis International and an independent artist. email

Max Dawson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. email

Suzanne de Castell is professor and dean, pro tem of the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and editor of Worlds in Play: International Perspectives on Digital Games Research. email

Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. email

Hector del Castillo is a sociologist at the University of Alcalá in Spain. email

Katherine Del Giudice is a doctoral candidate in human factors and experimental psychology at the University of Central Florida. email

Imar de Vries is assistant professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. email

Josh Diaz is a master's student in MIT CMS. email

Ana Domb is a master's student in MIT CMS. email

Andre Donk is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Communication Science at the University of Münster/ Germany. email

Meghan Dougherty teaches information technologies and information ethics at SUNYIT. email

Dennis Downey is a writer, performer, and creative artist, and the original founder of TextTelevision, a Massachusetts new media startup. email

Jesse Drew is director and associate professor of technocultural studies at the University of California, Davis. email

Kevin Driscoll is a graduate student in the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. email

Peter Durant holds a BA honours degree from the University of Sunderland and is an online producer and editor for Sulake UK. email

Chris Eaket is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Mediations and researcher at Carleton University's Hypertext and Hypermedia Lab. email

Meral Ekincioglu is a Ph.D. candidate at Istanbul Technical University and is currently a Visiting Scholar in Columbia University's Graduate School of Design, Preservation and Planning. email

Madeleine Clare Elish is a master’s candidate in Comparative Media Studies and a research assistant at HyperStudio, Laboratory for Digital Humanities at MIT. email

Adeola Enigbokan is a doctoral student in environmental psychology at City University of New York and teaches courses in urban affairs and planning at Hunter College in New York. email

Michael Epstein is founder and creative director of Untravel Media and an alumn of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. email

Ingrid Erickson is a research fellow at the Social Science Research Council in Brooklyn. email

Staffan Ericson is an associate professor at Sodertorn University, Sweden, and the co-leader of Media Houses: Architecture, Media and the (Re)-Centralisation of Power, a project that studies the buildings of major media institutions. email

Eric Faden is an associate professor of English and film and
media studies at Bucknell University. email

Jason Farman is assistant professor and director of the Digital Technology and Culture Program at Washington State University. email

Andrew Feldstein is assistant professor of marketing at Virginia State University. email 

Paolo Ferri is an associate professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of University of Milano-Bicocca, where he coordinates the Observatory on New Media.

Caitlin Fisher holds a Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture in the Department of Film at York University, Toronto. She completed York’s first hypertextual dissertation in 2000 and she was co-recipient of the International Digital Literature Award Ciutat de Vinaròs 2008 prize in poetry for her augmented reality poem Andromeda. email

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is associate professor of English and media studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California and is author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television. email

Sarah Florini is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. email

John Miles Foley is Curators' Professor and William H. Byler Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the University of Missouri, Columbia.  He is the director of The Center for eResearch and The Center for Studies in Oral Tradition and editor of the journal Oral Tradition.  email

Martin K. Foys is associate professor of English at Hood College (on leave) and a visiting professor at Drew University. He has published extensively on the intersection of new technologies and medieval studies. email

Ieuan Franklin is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Broadcasting History Research at Bournemouth University in the UK. email

Russell Francis is a postdoctoral associate in the Program in Comparative Media Studies, MIT. email

Jacob Gaboury is a doctoral student in the Media, Culture & Communication Department, NYU where he worked for the Department of Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. email

Monika Kin Gagnon is associate professor in communication studies at Concordia University, Montreal. She is author of Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art, and with Richard Fung and 11 media artists, 13 Conversations about Race and Cultural Race Politics. email

Florence Gallez is a master's student in MIT's Comparative Media Studies program and a research assistant in the Center for Future Civic Media. email

Sean Galvin is an adjunct associate professor in the Communication Skills Department and director of the LaGuardia Liberty Partnership Program at LaGurdia Community College, Queens. email

Heidi Gautschi is a doctoral candidate in information and communication sciences at the University of Paris X. email

R. Stuart Geiger is a graduate student in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown University and administers a wiki on virtual worlds for the Federation of American Scientists. email

Chris Gerben is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. email

Ananya Ghoshalis a Ph.D. student in the School of English Literary Studies at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. email

Tarleton Gillespie is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, and a fellow with the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford School of Law. He is the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture. email

Eric Gordon is an assistant professor on the Visual & Media Arts Faculty at Emerson College, Boston. email

Julio Gonzalez-Appling is an online instructor of music appreciation for Tiffin University (Ohio) and a technician for the Teaching and Learning Center at Clark College in Vancouver, Wa. email

Gavin J. Grant is the publisher and editor of Small Beer Press and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and coedits The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror with Kelly Link and Ellen Datlow. email

Jonathan Gray is assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. He is author of Television Entertainment and Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality. email

Sharron Greaves is an assistant professor of communications and speech at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. email

Brian Greenspan is associate professor in the Department of English and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University where he is the founding director of the Hypertext and Hypermedia Lab. email

Alexander Halavais is an assistant professor at Quinnipiac University. His most recent book is Search Engine Society. email

Mateusz Halawa is a Ph.D. student in the Anthropology Department at the New School for Social Research. email

Christopher Harper is an associate professor and co-director of the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab at Temple University. email

Justin Hayes teaches at Quinnipiac University, specializing in writing studies. email

Lance Heidig is a reference and instruction librarian in Research and Learning Services at Cornell University Library. email

Till A. Heilmann is an assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. email

Diana E. Henderson is Professor of Lierature and Dean for Curriculum and Faculty Support at MIT. email

Kate Hennessy is a Trudeau Scholar and doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of British Columbia. email

Bill D. Herman is an assistant professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at hunter College, NYC. email

Charles van den Heuvel  is senior researcher at the Virtual Knowledge Studio at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. email

Jennifer Holt is assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is currently finishing Empires of Entertainment, a manuscript about deregulation and the entertainment industry. email

Mary Hopper is president of K-Foundry and teaches the course Information Technology and Creative Practices at Northeastern University. email

Del R. Hornbuckle is associate director for information services in the Baker Library at the Harvard Business School. email

Katie Hornstein is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Michigan.  email

Theo Hug is associate professor of educational sciences at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and coordinator of the Innsbruck Media Studies research group. email

Ellen Hume is the research director for the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. She founded the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she created the New England Ethnic Newswire. Previously, she served as executive director and senior fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and as executive director of PBS's Democracy Project, where she developed special news programs that encouraged citizen involvement in public affairs. She was a White House and political correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, national reporter with the Los Angeles Times and regular commentator on PBS's Washington Week in Review and CNN's Reliable Sources. email

Bjorn Ingvoldstad is an assistant professor of communication studies at Bridgewater State College (Ma.), where he teaches media studies and communication technologies. email

Susan Jacobson is an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at Temple University. email

Andreas Jahn-Sudmann lectures on film, television and new media studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He is the author of Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon. email

Peter Jakobsson is a Ph.D. candidate in the research project Digital Media Cultures at Soderton university, Sweden. email

Dean Jansen is the outreach director for the Particapatory Culture Foundation. email

Henry Jenkins is co-director of Comparative Media Studies and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT. In summer 2009, he will leave MIT for a new position at USC. His most recent book is Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. email

Jennifer Jenson is associate professor of pedagogy and technology at York University and co-editor of Loading…:The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association. email

Juri Joensuu is a researcher at the Department of Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. email

Elizabeth Jones is a doctoral student at the Information School at the University of Washington. email

Colleen Kaman is a master's student in MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. email

Aleksandra Kaminska is a Ph.D. candidate in the joint program in communication and culture at York and Ryerson Universities in Toronto. email

Carolyn Kane is a Ph.D. candidate in the Media, Culture, and Communication Department at NYU. email

Tilottama Karlekar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Media, Culture & Communication at New York University. email

Vivi Katifori is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Capodistrian University of Athens. email

Kevin Kearney is a graduate student in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. email

Christian Keathley is assistant professor in the Film & Media Culture Department at Middlebury College. He is currently at work on a second book, The Mystery of Otto Preminger. email

Gary D. Keller is director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University, where he is a principal member of the AP Worlds project, a partnership of ASU, the College Board, and Google. email

Raivo Kelomees is a professor in the New Media Department at Estonian Academy of Arts. email

Mark Kelsey is a multimedia specialist in the Cambridge Public School System. email

Bette U. Kiernan is a psychotherapist in private practice in Palo Alto, where her area of specialty is crisis intervention within Silicon Valley corporations. email

Natalie King is a graduate student at Carleton University in Ottawa. email

Adam Klein is a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University. email

Flourish Klink is a graduate student in MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. email

Melanie E.S. Kohnen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Civilization at Brown University. email

Hillary Kolos is a master's student in MIT CMS. 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 and the forthcoming CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. email

Raine Koskimaa is a professor of digital culture at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. email

Kirsten Kozolanka is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. email

Marc Kosciejew is a doctoral candidate in library and information science at the University of Western Ontario. email

Virginia Kuhn is associate director of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. She works with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on the intersection of the humanities and cyberinfrastructure. email

Petra Kwong is a graduate student in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. email

Pilar Lacasa is a professor in developmental psychology at the University of Alcalá in Spain. email

Sybille Lammes is assistant professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Faculty of Art, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. email

Kurt Lancaster is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University, where he teaches courses on multimedia storytelling. email

Lori Landay is an associate professor of cultural studies at Berklee College of Music. For 2008-09, she is on sabbatical in Second Life as L1Aura Loire. email

Al Larsen is a media artist living and working in Buffalo. email

Catalina Laserna is a lecturer in anthropology and the Educational Technologies Program Director at Harvard University.   email

Lan Le is a master's student in the Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. email

Mark Leccese is an assistant professor of journalism at Emerson College in Boston. Leccese spent almost 30 years covering politics and government as a wire service reporter and a daily newspaper reporter. email

Joonseong Lee is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at the California State University, San Marcos.  email

Michelle Moon Lee is s master's student in MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. email

Elizabeth Lenaghan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Northwestern University’s Media, Technology & Society Program. email

Koen Leurs is a Ph.D. student at the Research Institute for History & Culture at Utrecht University where he works on the Netherlands Wired Up project. email

Amalia S. Levi is a student in the the HILS (master's in library sciences and master’s in history) graduate program at the University of Maryland, College Park. email

Paula Levine is an associate professor of art in the in Conceptual Information Arts Program at San Francisco State University. email

Xiaochang Li is a graduate student in the MIT's Comparative Media Studies program and a researcher with Convergence Culture Consortium. email

Raizel Liebler is research services librarian at John Marshall Law School and a copyright scholar for the American Library Association. She blogs at The Learned Fangirl. email

Michael Lithgow is a Ph.D. student in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. email

Rory Litwin is a reference librarian at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. email

Robert Logan is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto where he collaborated with and published with media theorist Marshall McLuhan. His books include Understanding New Media: Extending Marshall McLuhan (forthcoming in 2009). email

Cortney Lohnes is a master’s student in dramatic theory and criticism at the University of Alberta. email

Geoffrey Long is a researcher and communications director for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, a research project of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. email

Bernadette Longo is a professor in the Rhetoric Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. email

Lisa Lynch is an assistant professor of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal. email

Robert MacDougall is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Curry College in Milton, Ma. email

Andrea Mangiatordi is a is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Milano-Bicocca University. email

Marlene Manoff is the associate head of the MIT Humanities Library. email

Stella Marrs is an artist working in social practices and new media who recently completed her MFA in visual studies at the University at Buffalo. email

Rut Martinez is assistant professor in educational psychology at the University of Alcalá in Spain. email

Artur Matuck is an associate professor in the School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, and is a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in Media, Art and Text at Virginia Commonwealth University in spring 2009. email

Nancy Mauro-Flude a.k.a. sister0 is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tasmania and a lecturer in the E-media department Tasmanian School of Art. email

Aysha Mawani is a Ph.D. candidate in communication studies at McGill University. email

John W. Maxwell is assistant professor in the Master of Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University. email

Steven James May is a Canadian-based documentary filmmaker who recently earned a master's degree from Ryerson University. email

Kimberley McLeod is a master’s student in dramatic theory and criticism at the University of Alberta. email

Joanne McNeil is a journalist in Boston and founder and editor of The Tomorrow Museum. email

Joanne McNeish is pursuing a Ph.D. in management at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. She is a fellow of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association. email  

Isabel Meirelles is an assistant professor of graphic design in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University. email

Shari J. Metcalf is director of the EcoMUVE project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. email

Andrew Miller is assistant professor of media studies and digital culture at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Previously, he worked for six years as an assistant director in film and television on features such as Of Mice and Men and television series like Beverly Hills 90210. email

Jason Mittell is associate professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture, and chair of Film & Media Culture, at Middlebury College. His most recent book is Television & American Culture (Oxford UP, 2009). email

Jun Mizukawa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. email

Thoko Mnisi is a master’s student in educational psychology and an intern for the project, “Digitizing Data: Giving Life to Data to Save Lives in the Age of AIDS” at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.  email

Fiona McQuarrie is a professor of human resources and organization studies at the University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. email

David Mimno is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and was previously head programmer for the Perseus Project at Tufts University. email

Karlheinz Moerth is a researcher at the AAC-Austrian Academy Corpus. email

Emilie Moreau recently received her Ph.D. in information and communication sciences from the University of Lille III.  email

Eggo Muller is an associate professor in film and television at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University (NL). In 2007-08, he was a visiting professor at the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan. email

Rekha Murthy is director of projects and partnerships for Public Radio Exchange (PRX). She is an alum of MIT CMS. email

Claude Mussou is project coordinator for the Web legal deposit at INA-France. She has master's degrees in American studies and journalism from the Sorbonne. Mussou is also a member of the FIAT / IFTA Television Studies Commission. email

Philip Napoli is an associate professor of communications and media management and director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University. email

Annika Olsson is lecturer at and vice director for the Centre for Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. email

Jamie O’Neil is an assistant professor of digital media arts at Canisius College in Buffalo and a video and performance artist. He is the creator of the mock motivational speaker Kurt Weibers. email

Jessica Paganoni is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Milano-Bicocca University. email

James Paradis is head of the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and the Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of Writing at MIT. His areas of interest and research include communication studies, media history and Victorian popular culture. email

David Parisi is a postdoctoral fellow in new media literacies at the Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis. email

John Pascarella is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. email

Eduardo Campos Pellanda is professor and researcher at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. email

Daniel Pereira is research manager of the Convergence Culture Consortium research group in CMS. email

Benjamin Peters is a doctoral candidate in communications at Columbia University and a visiting fellow in the Information Society Project at Yale Law. email

John Durham Peters is a professor of communications studies at the University of Iowa. email

Karen Petruska is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. email

Thomas Pettitt is an associate professor at the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Southern Denmark, where he lectures on late-medieval and early-modern literature and theatre, and on folk traditions. email

Dominic Pettman is associate professor of Culture & Media, Eugene Lang College, The New School. His most recent book is Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age. email

Greg Peverill-Conti is vice president for digital/ social media at Weber Shandwick public relations and a research fellow for the Society for New Communication Research. email

Joana Pimenta is a Ph.D. candidate in media studies at the New University of Lisbon and during the 2008/09 academic year she is a visiting fellow in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. email

Elliot Pinkus is a master's student in MIT CMS. email

Andrew Piper is an assistant professor in the Department of German Studies and an associate member in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University. His book, Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age, is forthcoming). email

Hector Postigo is an associate professor in broadcast telecommunications and mass media at Temple University. email

Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker and founder of Prelinger Archives whose collection of 51,000 advertising, educational, industrial and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years operation. Prelinger has partnered with the Internet Archive to make 2,000 films from Prelinger Archives available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. He sits on the National Film Preservation Board as representative of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and is board president of the Internet Archive. He is co-founder of the Prelinger Library. email

Bob Rehak is an assistant professor of film and media studies at Swarthmore College. email

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh is an associate professor in the School of Education and Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. email

Ryan M. Rish is a doctoral student in the Adolescent, Post-Secondary and Community Literacies program at The Ohio State University’s School of Teaching and Learning. email

Craig Robertson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and co-editor of Thinking with James Carey: Essays on Communications, Transportation, History. email

Alice J. Robison is an assistant professor of English at Arizona State University and previously worked for the New Media Literacies project at MIT. email

Vincent F. Rocchio is assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and author of Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism and Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood’s Construction of Afro-American Culture. email

Jason Rockwood is a master's student in the Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. email

Tara Rodgers is a doctoral candidate in communication studies at McGill University and was a 2006-07 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar. email

Rebecca Ross is senior lecturer and an interactive design tutor in graphic design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UK. email

Luca Rossi is on the Advanced Communication Laboratory Faculty of Sociology at "Carlo Bo" University, Italy. email

Doris C. Rusch holds a postdoctoral position with the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab in the Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. email

Jon Saklofske is an assistant professor in the English Department, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. email

Erinc Salor is a doctoral student at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. email

Sarah Salter is a professor at the New England School of Law and an adjunct at Northeastern University Law School. email

Eirini Savaidou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (University of Athens/National Technical University of Athens, Greece). email

Philipp Schweighauser is assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Göttingen and author of The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. email

Nick Seaver is a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. email

Francesca Scenini is a is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Milano-Bicocca University. email

Mirko Tobias Schaefer is an assistant professor in the Department for Media and Culture Studies at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.  email

Claudia Schwarz is assistant professor at the Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck.email

Andrea Sciacca is a Ph.D. student at the European Graduate School of Saas-Fe, Switzerland and is an adjunct teacher for Bard College, Marist College and The Culinary Institute of America. email

Sheila Murphy Seles is a master' student in MIT CMS. email

Digdem Sezen is a doctoral candidate at Istanbul University, Graduate School of Social Sciences and also a Fulbright Scholar at the Georgia Tech School of Digital Media. email

Tonguc Sezen is a doctoral candidate at Istanbul University, Graduate School of Social Sciences and also a Fulbright Scholar at the Georgia Tech School of Digital Media. email

Jake Shapiro is the exective director of the Public Radio Exchange. email

Yongsuk Shim is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. email

Shawn Shimpach teaches film, television, media, and cultural studies as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. email

Sangita Shresthova is a Czech/Nepali dancer who recently earned a Ph.D. in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. She holds a master’s degree from MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program where she focused on Hindi cinema. email

J.A.A. Simons is associate professor of new media in the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. email

Aram Sinnreich is a visiting assistant professor at New York University Steinhardt School's Department of Media, Culture and Communication. email

sam smiley is a media artist and educator who works within the intersection of video art, community media, video music, and the technosciences. She is an assistant professor at Lesley University in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Creative Arts in Learning, and a member of the AstroDime Transit Authority media art collective.
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Pelle Snickars is head of research at the National Library of Sweden (which also holds the national audiovisual collections). Snickars received his Ph.D. in 2001, and has since devoted his research to media historical issues in relation to archival practices. With Patrick Vonderau, he is preparing an international anthology on the richest repository of popular culture on the web – The YouTube Reader (forthcoming in June 2009). email

Young Imm K. Song is an assistant professor at the Creative Arts in Learning Division, Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, at Lesley University (Cambridge, Ma.). email

Ramesh Srinivasan is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. email

Louisa Stein is an assistant professor of film, television and new media at San Diego State University. email

Robert Stein is founder and co-director of the Institute for the Future of the Book. He also founded The Voyager Company where, for 13 years, he led the development of over 300 titles in The Criterion Collection, a series of definitive films on videodisc, and more than 75 CD ROM titles including the CD Companion to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Who Built America, and the Voyager edition of' Macbeth. Previous to Voyager, Stein worked in the research group at Atari on a variety of electronic publishing projects. email

Fredrik Stiernstedt is a Ph.D. student of media and communication at BEEGS (Baltic and East European Graduate School). email

Maggie Burnette Stogner is on the Film and Media Arts Faculty at American University and is founder and president of Blue Bear Films. email

Lana Swartz is a master’s student in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program where she studies the social life of consumer goods. email

Shari Y. Tamashiro is an information technology specialist and “cybrarian” at Kapi’olani Community College, University of Hawaii where she is the project manager for the HI Nisei Story.  email

Ilan Tamir is a Ph.D. candidate at the communications program at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. email

Nell Taylor is the founder and director of the Chicago Underground Library and is the studio manager for generative video installation artist Lincoln Schatz. email

David Thorburn is Professor of Literature and director of the Communications Forum at MIT. He is the author of Conrad’s Romanticism, and, most recently, co-editor of Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition. email

Samuel Tobin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at The New School for Social Research. email

Jaak Tomberg is a researcher in the Estonian Literary Museum and a Ph.D. student at the University of Tartu. email

Aumnat Tongkaw is an assistant professor at Songkhla Rajabhat University, Thailand, and a Ph.D. student at the University of Manchester, UK. email

Sarah Toton is a Ph.D. Candidate in Emory University’s Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts. email

Whitney Anne Trettien is a graduate student in MIT's Comparative Media Studies program. email

Laura Tropp is an associate professor of communication at Marymount Manhattan College. email

Dina Tsoulos is a Ph.D. student at McGill University. email

Aristotle Tympas is assistant professor-elect on the history of technology in modernity at the University of Athens, Greece. During 2008-2009, he is a visiting scholar at MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society. email

William Uricchio is Professor and Co-Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT and professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. email

Nancy Van Leuven is an assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department of Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. email

Diane Varner is a doctoral student in mass media and communication at Temple University. email

Lalitha Vasudevan is an assistant professor of technology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. email

Nanna Verhoeff is associate professor at the Department for Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and author of The West in Early Cinema: After the Beginning. email

Piret Viires is professor of Estonian literature at Tallinn University, Estonia and a senior research fellow in the Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia. email

Hanna Wallach is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. email

Peter Walsh has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and book contributions on the visual arts, culture, and media history. He has served on the staff, written for, or consulted to the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Harvard University Art Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Public Radio, Wellesley College, Dartmouth College, and Andover Newton Theological School, where he is currently webmaster. email

McKenzie Wark is chair of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, The New School. email

Muhammad Waseem is a project manager for Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission. email

Geoff Way is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University. email

Courtney Weida is an assistant professor of Art and Education at Adelphi University. She is a working ceramic artist and sculptor, and her dissertation and recent publications concern issues of feminism and artistic ambivalence. email

Margaret Weigel works at Harvard’s Project Zero as the project manager and a researcher for the Developing Minds and Digital Media project (DM2). She earned a master's degree from MIT CMS. email

Brett Werenski is a graduate student in the American Studies program at Purdue University. email

Andrew Whitacre is the communications manager for the Center for Future Civic Media and the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. He is the fiction editor for Identity Theory. email

Jennifer R. Whitson is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. email

Eva Hemmungs Wirten is a professor and director of graduate studies in library and information science in the Department of Archival Science, Library and Information Science, and Museology (ALM), Uppsala University, Sweden. email

D.E. Wittkower is a lecturer in philosophy at Coastal Carolina University and the editor of the books iPod and Philosophy and Facebook and Philosophy. email

Sarah Wolozin is the program manager for MIT's Comparatrive Media Studies. email

Ann J. Wolpert is director of MIT Libraries responsible for MIT's libraries and MIT Press. The MIT libraries consist of five major collections, a number of smaller branch libraries in specialized subject areas, a fee-for-services group, and the Institute archives. The Institute archives and special collections preserve the historical records of MIT and the personal papers of many faculty members. The MIT Press publishes about 200 new books and more than 40 journals each year in fields related to or reliant upon science and technology. Wolpert chairs the management board of the MIT Press and the board of directors of Technology Review, Inc. email

Andrew Wong is a senior research scientist in Telenor where he researches ICT practices among various groups in developing countries.  email

Trevor Wood-Harper is a professor of business systems at Manchester Business School, UK. email

Richard D. Wright is preservation specialist for BBC Archive. He has lead and participated in various research projects at the European level since 1995, including Euromedia, Amitica, Presto, PrestoSpace, Birth of Television, Video Active, Semedia and PrestoPRIME. He is the author of the PrestoSpace Preservation Guide: http://wiki.prestospace.org and has worked in acoustics, speech and signal processing for US and UK Government research laboratories, University College London, Royal National Institute for the Deaf, and Cirrus Research as well as the BBC. email

Marilyn Yaquinto is an assistant professor of communication at Truman State University in Missouri. She is a former Los Angeles Times reporter who shares in the Pulitzer Prize awarded the paper for its coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. email

Irina Yegorova is a senior lecturer at the Foreign Philology Department at Immanuel Kant State University of Russia (Kaliningrad). email

Jason Zalinger is a Ph.D. student in communication and rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. email

Lin Zhang is a graduate student in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU. email

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