Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies

Notes on the Editors and Contributors

EDITORS ISAAC A. BLANKSON is associate professor and director of technology in the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He teaches public relations, communication research, electronic media, and intercultural/international communication. He has published on the topics of media in new and emerging democracies, language and broadcasting , public relations practices in developing societies, and media and civil society. His most recent works appeared in the International Journal of Communication , Global Media Journal, and a D. Tilson and E. Alozie edited volume , Toward the Common Good: Perspectives in International Public Relation (Allyn & Bacon, 2004). Dr. Blankson was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student in the School of Telecommunications, Ohio University, in 1999. He received his PhD in communications and MA in international affairs from Ohio University, MPhil. in human geography from the University of Oslo, Norway, and BA (Hons) in geography from the University of Ghana. A native of Ghana, Dr. Blankson continues to serve as a media and public relations consultant in Ghana. PATRICK D. MURPHY is professor and chair of the Department of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he teaches transnational media, mass communication theory, and documentary media. He is a former Fulbright-García Robles Fellow, and has served as a frequent visiting professor at the School of Communication and Humanities, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Querétaro Campus, Mexico. He has published on the topics of media reception , ethnographic method, the political economy of transnational media, and Latin American cultural theory. His work has appeared in Communication 259 Notes on the Editors and Contributors Theory, Cultural Studies, The Howard Journal of Communication, The Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of International Communication, Popular Communication , and Qualitative Inquiry. Murphy is coeditor of Global Media Studies : Ethnographic Perspectives (Routledge, 2003) and recently guest edited a special issue of the journal Global Media and Communication on communication and culture in Latin America. CONTRIBUTORS ELZA IBROSCHEVA is assistant professor in mass communications at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She received her MA in journalism and PhD in mass communication and media arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. In 2003, Ibroscheva was awarded a research fellowship to complete her dissertation on the mechanisms of creating stereotypes of Russians and eastern Europeans among U.S. opinion makers. She has also been the recipient of a number of research and study grants, including awards from the University of Oslo, Norway, and Central European University. Her research interests include international and political communication, effects of globalization on culture, and gender representations in the media. DAL YONG JIN is assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He received his MA from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas (Austin) in 2000, and he finished his PhD from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2004. Before coming to the United States in 1998, he worked as a newspaper reporter for 10 years in Seoul, Korea. His major research and teaching interests are the political economy of culture and media, globalization and international media, telecommunications policy, information and communication technologies, and critical cultural studies. Jin is currently interested in doing research on the macrolevel effects of the diffusion of information and communication technologies and their policy implications. He is the author of a book entitled Hands On/Hands Off: The Korean State and the Market Liberalization of the Communication Industry, and his recent work has appeared in several scholarly journals, including Media, Culture and Society, Telecommunications Policy, Television and New Media, Information, Communication and Society , and Gazette. MARWAN M. KRAIDY is director of the Arab Media and Public Life (AMPLE) project, assistant professor of international relations and international communication at American University, and scholar-in-residence at the Annenberg School for Communication. His books include Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives (co-editor with Patrick D. Murphy, RoutNOTES ON THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS 260 ledge, 2003) and Hybridity, or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization (singleauthored , Temple University Press, 2005). This chapter is reprinted by permission from Reality Television and Politics in the Arab World (Preliminary Observations), Transnational Broadcasting Studies [peer-reviewed paper edition ] 2 (1), 7–28, also available http://www.tbsjournal.com/Kraidy.html. It is drawn from Kraidy’s current book project funded by a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the United States Institute of Peace. LAURA LENGEL is associate professor...