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Contributors PÉter Bajomi-lázár is professor of communication at the social Communications institute of the Budapest Business school and, starting in october 2009, senior research fellow at the department of Politics and international relations of the university of oxford. He earned his Phd in political science at the Central european university in 2004. His book A magyarországi médiaháború (The Hungarian Media War) won the Pulitzer Memorial award in 2002. e-mail: bajomilp@gmail.com. miyase cHristensen is assistant Professor in the department of Media and Communication studies at Karlstad university, sweden. she obtained her Ph.d. from the department of radio-TV-Film, the university of Texas at austin. Her dissertation work on the eu’s is Policies vis-à-vis Turkey’s harmonization of its is strategies and telecoms sector was awarded with Jesse H. Jones endowed Centennial Fellowship by the uT at austin. Her research areas include globalization; media and information society policies (with an emphasis on the eu); and media and politics. she is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Shifting Landscapes: Media and Film in European Context, (Christensen, M. & erdogan, e. eds), and the author of a number of articles and book chapters on information society policies and the digital divide. e-mail: miyachristensen@yahoo.com Fausto colomBo is Professor of Mass Communication at the Faculty of Political sciences, Catholic university, Milan. He acts as a director of Communications observatory (osservatorio sulla Comunicazione), a media and communication research center involved in numerous projects both with public institutions and private companies. He took an active part in various academic collaborative networks and research evaluation committees, including Cost action 20 (The impact of internet on the mass media in europe). He is a member of the editorial board of Comunicazioni Sociali. Rivista di Media, Spettacolo e Studi Culturali and Problemi dell’Informazione. His scientific activity concerns sociology of media, with particular attention at the global development of digitalization and at the processes of incorporation of iCTs in everyday life. He is author of several articles on refereed journals and of books on i4 Beata book.indb 331 2010.05.09. 10:22 332 Contributors media and communications, including the recent TV and Interactivity in Europe (2006). e-mail: fausto.colombo@unicatt.it Kate coyer is a post-doctoral research fellow with the Center for Global Communication studies at the annenberg school for Communication, university of Pennsylvania and the Center for Media and Communication studies at Central european university (Ceu) where she is currently researching community broadcasting policies and practices across europe. Kate has helped build community radio stations and has been a radio producer and media campaign organizer for over twenty years. she received her Phd from Goldsmiths College, university of london and her most recent publication is the Handbook of Alternative Media (co-authored, routledge 2007). e-mail: CoyerK@ceu.hu miHály GáliK (Phd in economics) has been Professor at the Corvinus university of Budapest since 1996. He heads the department of Media, Marketing Communications and Telecommunications since 2000. From 1993 to 1996 he was associate Professor. Before he acted as a Managing director at the Hungarian radio (1990–1992) and editor of the economic Program department (1976–1990). He has been co-ordinating numerous research projects on the media in Hungary in the last twenty years and been involved in a couple of international media research projects, as well. e-mail: galik@uni-corvinus.hu arne Hintz is director of the Center for Media and Communication studies (CMCs) at Central european university (Ceu) in Budapest, Hungary. He holds a Phd in Political science from university of Hamburg, Germany, and an Ma in international Political economy from university of Warwick, uK. His research focuses on media and communication policy, community/alternative /activist media, global governance and civil society. He has also been a journalist, media activist, and a policy advocate for community media. e-mail: Hintza@ceu.hu HalliKi Harro loit is associate Professor and Head of the institute of Journalism and Communication at the Tartu university. she gained her Phd from oslo university in 2002. Her teaching and research interests include media law and ethics, media policy, communication history, media economy and management, journalistic genres and discourse analysis. she has published about 30 articles in scholarly journals and three monographs (including Phd thesis). e-mail: halliki.harro@ut.ee Karol jaKuBowicz, Ph.d. He heads Working Group 2 of the CosT a30 aCTion East of West: Setting a...

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