Notes on Contributors

Kirsty Best is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of communication technologies. Recent articles have appeared in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Social Semiotics, and Television and New Media. kbest@uottowa.ca

Kevin DeLuca is Associate Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. His book, Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism, is available through Guilford Press. kdeluca@uga.edu

Shane Gunster teaches advertising, political economy, and critical media studies in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the author of Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2004), and his work has been published in journals such as Cultural Critique and Television and New Media. sgunster@sfu.ca

Mark Halsey teaches in the School of Law at the Flinders University of South Australia. From mid-January 2005 he will be based in the Department of Criminology at the University of Melbourne. His book, Becoming Contested: Deleuze and the Lexicon of Ecological Struggle (forthcoming, Ashgate), expands on matters raised by his article in this issue. mhalsey@unimelb.edu.au

Christine Harold is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. Her current book project is titled Brand Politics: Rhetoric, Resistance, and Consumer Culture. charold@uga.edu

Andy Opel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Florida State University, teaching documentary video production and critical media studies. He recently co-edited a book, Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience and the Global Justice Movement. In addition, his work has appeared in Enviropop: Studies in Environmental Rhetoric and Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture. His research interests include the intersection of consumer culture and the environment as well as the emerging media and democracy movement. Andy.Opel@comm.fsu.edu

Jason Smith is a third-year Ph.D student in the Department of Communication at Florida State University. His research interests include popular music, greenwashing, and the environmental movement. He is currently working on his dissertation that examines android response to environmental IMAX films. jks02g@garnet.acns.fsu.edu.

Anne Marie Todd is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at San José State University. amt@sisu.edu