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  • Contributors

Dr. Chiu-chi Angela Chang received her Ph.D. in Marketing from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She is currently Associate Professor of Marketing at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. Her research interests include green marketing, health marketing, prosocial behavior, and consumer welfare. She has published in such academic journals as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, and Health Marketing Quarterly.

Dr. Edgar Huang is an associate professor from the School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University on the Indianapolis campus. His research articles on healthcare new media, media convergence, streaming media, copyright issues related to DVD ripping, online imaging, documentary photography history, digital imaging manipulation, and the Internet and national development have been published in many prestigious journals, including e-Service, Convergence and Journalism and Communication Monographs. He has taught more than 20 different kinds of courses from Online Video Streaming, Advanced Web design, Video Production and Editing, to Media Convergence, Research Methods, and News Writing at eight universities in the last 30 years.

Göran Goldkuhl, PhD, is professor in information systems at Linköping University Sweden. He is currently developing a family of theories and methods, which all are founded on socio-instrumental pragmatism: workpractice diagnosis, business process modelling, policy analysis, problem analysis, communication analysis, e-service design, user-interface design, information modelling and IS actability evaluation. He has a great interest in pragmatic and qualitative research methods and he has contributed to the development of Multi-Grounded Theory (a modified version of Grounded Theory) and Practice Research (integrating evaluation research, design research and action research). He has published more than 150 research papers at conferences, in journals and as book chapters. He has published in conference proceedings of ECIS, DESRIST, ICIS among others. He has published in journals as Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Business Process Management Journal, Communications of ACM, Communications of AIS, European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Organization, Semiotica, Transforming Government, among others. [End Page 62]

Erik Perjons, Ph D, holds a position as senior lecturer (assistant professor) at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University. His research and teaching interest includes areas such as enterprise modeling, service oriented architecture, business process management, model-driven development, system integration, and decision support systems. A main research focus has been to design methods based on modeling techniques and scientific approaches for analyzing practical problems in organizations, and designing business and IT solutions addressing these problems. He has published around 60 publications in international journals and conferences, participated in several domestic and international research projects in domains such as health care, e-government and telecom. He has also a university exam in journalism and has worked as journalist at several Swedish newspapers, and as a media analyst, analyzing how organizations and products are described in different media.

Ali Sunyaev is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interests include design and management of information systems, health IT, and information systems security. His research has been published in Communications of the ACM, ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Business and Information Systems Engineering, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and other journals. Dr. Sunyaev is also affiliated at the Intelligent Health Laboratory, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University, U.S. [End Page 63]

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