Information about the contributing authors:

Bruce Allen lectures at the Macquarie University Centre for International Communication and is a Media Consultant specialising in media regulation. He is a former Member of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and has produced television programs in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. His Master of Journalism is from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
E-mail: ballen@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au

Belinda Barnet is eCommerce Producer for NRMA Insurance Limited, a member company of NRMA Insurance Group. She is doing her PhD in Hypermedia at the University of New South Wales, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Baltimore in late 2000. Her work has appeared in journals such as Continuum, Metro, Convergence, M/C and (soon!) the American Book Review.
E-mail: belinda@senet.com.au

Melissa Butcher completed the chapter in this book on the basis of research undertaken for her PhD thesis, completed at Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Sydney, Australia.
E-mail: m.butcher@uws.edu.au

Naren Chitty is Director of the Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of International Communication, Convenor of the Under-Represented Areas Network for Media and Communication Research, and a former Secretary General of the International Association for Media & Communication Research. His PhD in International Relations is from American University, Washington DC, USA.
E-mail: nchitty@ocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au

Hart Cohen is a Senior Lecturer in media in the School of Communication, Design and Media at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He coordinates media production in the Bachelor of Communication (Media) and the MA in Communication and Cultural Studies. He is currently editor of the journal, Australian-Canadian Studies and recently guest edited a special supplement on the work of Marshall McLuhan for Media International Australia (No. 94 February 2000). In 2001, Dr Cohen wrote and directed a one hour documentary film on the life and work of T.G.H. Strehlow, titled, Mr Strehlow's Films for SBS TV.
E-mail: h.cohen@uws.edu.au
Stephen McElhinney lectures at the Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Sydney, Australia. He has worked previously in policy research for the Australian Department of Communications, the Communications Law Centre and the Privacy Commission. He received his PhD from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
E-mail: skmcelhinney@yahoo.com.au

Anura Goonasekera is Deputy Director General of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) Singapore and is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Communication Studies of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a former Director General of National Television and a Permanent Secretary in Sri Lanka.
E-mail: amicline@singnet.com.sg

Suda Ishida is a graduate of the Macquarie University Centre for International Communication. She is a candidate for a PhD at the University of Iowa.
E-mail: suda-ishida@uiowa.edu

Adam Knee , Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania, holds a doctorate in Cinema Studies from New York University. He has previously taught at universities in Australia, Taiwan, and Thailand. E-mail: adamknee@hotmail.com

Sripan Rattikalchalakorn lectures at the Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Sydney, Australia. She is a graduate of Chulalongkorn University. She is a candidate for a PhD at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. E-mail: srattika@ocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au

Jan Servaes and Patchanee Malikhao are members of the Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Sydney, Australia. A former Dean of the Faculty of Social Science of the Free University in Brussels, Belgium, Jan Servaes is President of the European Consortium for Communication Research and a Vice President of the International Association for Media & Communication Research.
E-mail: freenet002@pi.be

Scott Shaner lectures at the Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Sydney, Australia. He is a graduate of State University of New York.
E-mail: S.shaner@unsw.edu.com

Momoyo Shibuya completed this chapter on the basis of research being undertaken currently for her PhD thesis, at Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Sydney, Australia.
E-mail: mshibuya@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au

McKenzie Wark is Associate Director of the Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Sydney, Australia.
E-mail: mwark@ocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au

Yong Zhong completed the chapter in this book on the basis of research undertaken for his PhD thesis, completed at Macquarie University Centre for International Communication, Sydney, Australia.
E-mail: Y.zhong@unsw.edu.au