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262 Edit or s a nd Cont r ibu t or s Contributors St ua r t Al l a n is a professor of journalism in the Media School, Bournemouth University, U.K. He is the author of News Culture (1999), Media, Risk and Science (2002), and Online News: Journalism and the Internet (2006). His edited collections include News, Gender and Power (1998; with Carter and Branston), Environmental Risks and the Media (2000; with Adam and Carter), Journalism after September 11(2002; with Zelizer), Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (2004; with Zelizer), and Journalism: Critical Issues (2005). He is a book series editor for the Open University Press and serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals. Jack Zel jko Br at ich is an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. As a visiting research associate at the University of Illinois, he was comanaging editor for three scholarly journals. He authored Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture (2008) and coedited Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality and Mobile Identities, Mobilized Knowledges : Technology and Culture in a Global Society, a special issue of Information, Theory, and Society. He has published in Cultural Studies–Critical Methodologies, Cultural Studies, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Communication Theory, Television and New Media, and Information, Theory, and Society. Nor ma n Denzin is a research professor of communications as well as a professor of sociology, of cinema studies, and of criticism and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois. His research covers the span from theory to institutional practice. His books The Alcoholic Self and The Recovering Alcoholic won the Charles H. Cooley Award of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction . His recent publications include Screening Race: Hollywood and a Cinema of Racial Violence, Interpretive Ethnography, The Cinematic Society, Images of Postmodern Society, The Research Act, Interpretive Interactionism, and Hollywood Shot by Shot. He is a past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, the editor of The Handbook of Qualitative Research, a coeditor of Qualitative Inquiry, the editor of Cultural Studies—Critical Methodologies, and the series editor for Studies in Symbolic Interaction. Ma r k Fack l er is a professor of communications at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a coauthor of Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning (8th ed.) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press. He has written and Edit or s a nd Co nt r ibu t or s 263 edited several other chapters and volumes. Fackler teaches ethics and media and development at Daystar University, Nairobi, and helps American students understand, through lived experience, processes of development and democratization in rural areas, principally among the Maasai of the Serengeti plain. He has lectured recently in the Netherlands, Mongolia, and Ethiopia. Robert Fort ner is the director of the Media Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization that carries out fieldwork and analysis on behalf of other nonprofits working in the developing world. He is also a professor of communication arts and sciences at Calvin College. He has authored four books in the areas of international communication and communication theory and is editing three others on communication ethics with his colleague Mark Fackler. He has also authored more than one hundred reports, monographs, and essays. He has lectured or taught in more than twenty countries. Lawr ence Gro ssberg is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and an Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, American Studies, and Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has won numerous awards from the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association, as well as the University of North Carolina Distinguished Teaching Award. He has been a coeditor of the international journal Cultural Studies for over fifteen years. His work has been translated into a dozen languages. His most recent books include Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics and America’s Future (2005), New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (with Tony Bennett and Meaghan Morris, 2005), and MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (with Ellen Wartella, D. Charles Whitney, and MacGregor Wise, 2005). His forthcoming book is Cultural Studies, Intellectual Labor, and the Challenges of the Contemporary. Jol i Jensen holds the Hazel Rogers Endowed Chair in Communication at the University of Tulsa. She has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Is Art Good for Us? Beliefs about High Culture in American Life...

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