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351 Contributors josé luis benítez (Ph.D. in communications from Ohio University) is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and director of the Master’s in Communication Program at the Central American University José Simeón Cañas in El Salvador. He coordinates the “Migration and Human Development” research project, which is sponsored by the United Nations Development Program, El Salvador, and the European Union. He has presented numerous papers at various academic conferences in Latin America and the United States on topics such as the Salvadoran media, freedom of expression, radio, Internet, migration, and transnational communication processes. victoria bernal (Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois) is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California–Irvine. Her work has addressed issues of gender, nationalism, war, transnationalism, development, civil society, cyberspace, and Islam. She has conducted research in Eritrea, Tanzania, and Sudan. She published Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village. Her articles have appeared in edited collections and in American Ethnologist, American Anthropologist, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cultural Anthropology, African Studies Review, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Global Networks, among others. jennifer m. brinkerhoff (Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Southern California) is an associate professor of public administration , international affairs, and international business at George Washington University. She is the director and cofounder of GeorgeWashington’s Diaspora Research Program. She consults for multilateral development banks, bilateral assistance agencies, ngos, and foundations. Combining her research with this work, she published Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? and Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement. She is also the editor of Diasporas and International Development: Exploring the Potential and completed an edited volume and commissioned research for the Asia Development Bank, culminating in Converting Migration Drains into Gains: Harnessing the Resources of Overseas Professionals. 352 c o n t r i b u t o r s javier bustamante (Ph.D. in philosophy and sciences of education from Complutense University in Madrid) is a professor of moral philosophy in the Department of Ethics and Sociology at Complutense University; Director of the Ibero-American Center for Science, Technology, and Society ; and vice president of fiap. He has been a v isiting Professor in several universities. He currently coordinates an international project for developing “Ibero-American Digital Citizenship” with the participation of several Spanish, Brazilian, and Bolivian universities. He was awarded the Fundesco Prize in 1993for his book Sociedad Informatizada, ¿Sociedad Deshumanizada? (Computerized Society, Dehumanized Society?). brenda chan (Ph.D. in communication studies from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore) is an assistant professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, where she teaches courses on cultural studies and qualitative research methods. Her research interests are in the area of media and mobility, particularly how media influence, and intervene in, the processes of migration and tourism. Her doctoral research examined how the Internet was used by Chinese migrants in the construction of their cultural identities , particularly national and ethnic identities. xabier cid is a visiting lecturer on Galician Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He holds a B.A. in Hispanic Studies with emphasis on Galician and Portuguese languages from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. He worked as a journalist and as an Internet consultant for more than a decade. He has also delivered papers at international conferences, such as “Galician Blog System: Can Bytes Pull Down the Concept of National Literature?” at Oxford University. cybergolem: andoni alonso (Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of the Basque Country in Spain) is a professor at the University of Extremadura , Spain. iñaki arzoz is a freelance cultural writer and artist. Together they form the Cybergolem Collective Author. Their work has focused on the effects of communication technologies on society and communities. Among some of their books on this issue are Basque Cyberculture: From Digital Euskadi to Cyber Euskalerria and La Quinta Columna Digital, which was the winner of the Epson Prize for the best book on technoethics. They have also developed diverse activist projects, including Artamugarriak (http://www.artamugarriak. org/) and La Quinta Columna Digital (http://www.quintacolumna.org). [54.160.244.62] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 13:15 GMT) c o n t r i b u t o r s 353 ron eglash (Ph.D. in history of consciousness from the University of California ) is an associate professor of science and...