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303 About the Contributors Noor Al-Qasimi received her Ph.D. in film and television from the University of Warwick in 2007. Her research interests include sexuality, cybertechnology, the region of the Middle East, critical theory, postcolonial feminism, transnational feminism, queer theory, biopolitics, governmentality, and affect theory. She is currently a research fellow at the Center for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London. She recently held a research fellowship at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University, where she also taught in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. Spring-Serenity Duvall is Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of South Carolina, Aiken. Her research interests include celebrity culture, girlhood studies, and commodity activism. Her published work includes “Dying for Our Sins: Christian Salvation Rhetoric in Celebrity Colonialism,” in Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation, and Power in (Post)Colonial Cultures (2009). She has also presented her work at the International Communication Association , the Political Studies Association (UK), the National Communication Association , and the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication . Forthcoming publications include “Perfect Little Feminists? Young Girls in the U.S. Interpret Gender, Violence, and Friendship in Cartoons,” in the Journal of Children and Media. She has served on the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women. Nabil Echchaibi is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado–Boulder. His recent research focuses on the intersections between Islam, Arab popular culture, and the media. His current research in the political economy and reception of Islamic satellite media is an attempt to document and analyze the new public articulation of identity and religion among young Arabs. His book on the role of diasporic media among young Muslims in France and Germany is forthcoming. He is also interested in new media and their impact on journalism. His coedited book International Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked Publics was published in 2009. Karmen Erjavec is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she teaches mass communication, journalism, and media education. Her research interests extend to the areas of media and 304 About the Contributors minorities, nationalism, racism, media education, and the quality of journalism. Her numerous publications include“Eastern European Media Representation of the Discrimination against the Roma,” in Discourse and Society (2001); “Beyond Advertising and Journalism,” in Discourse and Society (2004); and“Hybrid Public Relation News Discourse,” in the European Journal of Communication (2005). Radha S. Hegde is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She has published in the areas of postcolonial and transnational feminism, globalization, and diaspora. Her earlier work examined violence and reproductive politics in south India. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Communication Theory, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Feminist Media Studies, and Violence against Women. Her current projects include a monograph on media and migration and an ethnographic project in India examining the role of language and training in the construction of digital futures. She has been the chair of the Feminist and Women’s Studies division of the National Communication Association. She serves on the editorial board of several major journals in the field of media and cultural studies . She is also the cofounder of Manavi, an organization that addresses issues of gender and violence in the South Asian immigrant community. Minoo Moallem is Professor and Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran (2005). She is also the coeditor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State (1999) and the guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East on Iranian immigrants, exiles, and refugees. She has recently ventured in digital media, and her online project “Nation-on-the Move” (design by Eric Loyer) was recently published in Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (special issue on difference, fall 2007). She is currently working on a book manuscript on the commodification of the nation through consumptive production and circulation of such commodities as the Persian carpet, a research project on gender, media, and religion, and a project on Iran-Iraq war movies and masculinity. Sujata Moorti is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Middlebury College . Her...

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