The Editorial Board
General Editor
Dr Daniel Chandler
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Editors
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Dr Chris Arthur University of Wales, Lampeter |
Dr David Buckingham University of London Institute of Education |
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Dr Ron Burnett President, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Canada |
Cynthia Carter University of Wales, Cardiff |
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Sean Cubitt Liverpool John Moores University, England |
Mike Enders Charles Sturt University, Australia |
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Alan Finlayson Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Dr Dan Fleming University of Ulster at Coleraine, Northern Ireland |
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Dr Gregory B. Lee University of Hong Kong |
Jamie Medhurst University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
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Professor Peter Medway Carleton University, Canada |
Kristina Ross University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
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Martin Ryder Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, Colorado, USA |
Dr Michael A Shapiro Cornell University |
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Dr Brian Shoesmith Edith Cowan University, Australia |
Dr James Slevin University of Amsterdam |
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Dr Ilana Snyder Monash University, Australia
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Associate Editors | |
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Dr Stuart Allan University of Glamorgan, Wales |
Bob Morris Jones University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
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Meic Llewellyn University of Wales, Aberystwyth | |
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The Editorial TeamOur intention is for the IJMCS editorial team to be approachable. Brief background details on the team are given in the next section (below this frame). Gradually, we will also offer more detailed introductions by each of the editors which will help both readers and contributors to judge our interests and biases. In the meantime...
Meet the Editors
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| Dr Stuart Allan is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Glamorgan in Pontypridd, Wales. He holds a doctorate in sociology from Carleton University, and came to Britain in 1991 as a post-doctoral fellow at the John Logie Baird Centre for Media and Cultural Studies in the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. He is the Deputy Editor of Time & Society and has co-edited, with Barbara Adam, Theorizing Culture: An Interdisciplinary Critique After Postmodernism. His publications are primarily in the areas of news media sociology, cultural studies, critical discourse analysis, nuclear issues, and time-space studies. |
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| Dr Chris Arthur is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He has worked briefly as a TV researcher and has held a postdoctoral research fellowship on the University of Edinburgh's Media and Theology Project. He edited Religion and the Media: An Introductory Reader (University of Wales Press: 1993) and is a regular reviewer for the journal Media Development. Among his interests are: the impact of different media on religious thinking; the way in which religious stories are handled by the media; the methodological significance of media in the study of religion; and the apparent religiousness or quasi-religiousness of some forms of modern mass media. |
 Dr David Buckingham is a Reader at the University of London Institute of Education. He was formerly media resources officer/media studies teacher for the Inner London Education Authority. He was a visiting fellow at the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania from 1995-96. His current interests include media education, children/young people and media/new technologies, and children's media culture. |
| Dr Ron Burnett, President, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia is the former Director of the Graduate Program in Communications at McGill University. He recently published Cultures of Vision: Images, Media and the Imaginary with Indiana University Press. His home page is at http://www.eciad.bc.ca/~rburnett/englishhome.html. |
| Cynthia Carter is a lecturer in Mass Communication Studies in the Centre for Journalism Studies at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She is currently completing a doctorate analysing British national daily press reports of violence against women and girls. She is co-editing a book with Gill Branston and Stuart Allan entitled News, Gender and Power (Routledge) and is involved in co-organising a symposium, with Barbara Adam, Stuart Allan and Ian Welsh, on the theme of 'Media, Risk and the Environment' due to be held in Cardiff on 3rd-4th July, 1997. Her publications are primarily in the area of the media and familial ideology, gender and news history, crime news and around issues related to the of the 'gendering' of journalism. |
| Dr Daniel Chandler is a lecturer in media theory in the Education Department of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth with research interests in children's understanding of television and in the phenomenology of engagement with media. He is the author of The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach. Dr Chandler teaches undergraduate courses on Media Theory, Learning from TV and Media Education and supervises research students in this field. He is the coordinator for an MA in Television Studies. He is also a member of the Virtual Faculty and webmaster of the Media and Communication Studies Site. |
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| Sean Cubitt is a Reader in Video and Media Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, England. He is on the boards of Screen and Third Text - the latter a journal dedicated to third world perspectives on the arts. Key interests include: digital cultures, media arts, diasporan media and art. He has also published on pop music and design. |
| Mike Enders is currently lecturing in policing studies at the Professional Development Centre (Policing), Charles Sturt University, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. Mike has a Master of Business in media studies and is developing a subject on police and the media. He is a member of the Centre for Cultural Risk Research and is carrying out research into the relationship between film and society, in particular, film depictions of indigenous peoples. Mike is currently editing a book on police corruption. |
| Alan Finlayson is in the department of Politics at the Queen's University of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. He teaches mainly theory, primarily contemporary social theory, but also courses on popular culture and media. He is also running a new minor degree option in Cultural Studies. |
| Dr Dan Fleming is a lecturer in Media Studies and heads the Media Studies Division in the School of Media & Performing Arts at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He previously taught in a secondary school and a Further Education college and was an Educational Development Officer at Robert Gordon Institute, Aberdeen. He is the author of Media Teaching (1993) and Powerplay: Toys as Popular Culture (1996). He has had a long-term involvement with community media, has been a visiting research fellow at BT Labs, Martlesham Heath (working on qualitative audience research methodology in relation to video-on-demand trials) and currently co-directs the Formations Project within the UK Electronic Libraries Programme. |
| Bob Morris Jones is a Senior Research Associate in the Education Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He researches within the field of linguistics. In 1995 he co-edited (with his departmental colleague Dr Paul Ghuman) Bilingualism, Education and Identity (Cardiff: University of Wales Press), to which he also contributed a chapter on: 'Schools and Speech Communities in a Bilingual Setting'. |
| Dr Gregory B Lee is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He has taught at Cambridge and London universities and in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. After postgraduate studies at Peking University (1979-81, 1982-3) he returned to the University of London where he was awarded a PhD in Chinese studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1985. He once worked for the BBC World Service (1988-90) and is still an occasional broadcaster on Chinese culture. His interests are in China, Occitania, diaspora, hybrid and marginal cultures, MTV and popular music in the non-white world, and culture and the impact of new technologies in the Chinese-speaking world. |
 Meic Llewellyn is a PhD research student in the Education Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, investigating popular music in the Welsh language with particular reference to questions of identity. He is also interested in parallel situations in other small cultures. He was formerly Head of Media Studies at Shiplake College in Oxfordshire. |
| Jamie Medhurst is a lecturer in the Theatre, Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Wales, Aberyswtyth. His main research interests include: the information needs and information-seeking behaviour of journalists; press and broadcasting structures; communication trends in the information age; media and ethical issues; the structure of news and news values; and the information skills of radio and television researchers. |
| Professor Peter Medway taught in high schools and the University of Leeds in England and in 1991 moved to Carleton University, Ottawa, where he is associate professor and Director of the Centre for Research on Language in Education and Work. His research interests include the interface between education and work, discourse in architectural education, and school curriculum in technology and English. He has recently co-edited Bringing English to Order, Learning and Teaching Genre and Genre and the New Rhetoric. He is Visiting Professor in Education at Middlesex University. |
| Kristina Ross is a lecturer at the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is interested in media history and computer-mediated communication, and is the webmaster of the Media History Project. She is currently ABD in media studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. |
| Martin Ryder has been a student of media for over twenty years as a practitioner in commercial radio and print journalism and more recently in education and cognitive science. Mr Ryder holds a master's degree in Instructional Technology and his current work involves computer-mediated communication in support of human task performance. He is a senior development engineer for Storage Technology Corporation in Louisville, Colorado. |
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Michael A. Shapiro, is the
Director of Graduate Studies and an Associate
Professor in the
Department of Communication at Cornell University. His
research focuses on the mental processes involved in
communication, including mental processes people use to interpret messages
and to make decisions. He teaches courses in
Psychology of Television,
Communication and Persuasion, and Psychology of Communication.
Email: mas29@cornell.edu
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| Brian Shoesmith is the General Editor of Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture; Director of the Centre for Asian Communication, Media and Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University (Perth) and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at that university. His research interests include Asian cinema, the influence of new communication technologies in Asia, and reconfiguring temporal and spatial relations through electronic media and capitalism. |
| Dr James M Slevin is assistant professor in Information Studies in the department of Communication Studies, at the Faculty for Political, Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His professional interest is in cultural transmission through mass- and computer-mediated communication. He was awarded a PhD from King's College, Cambridge in 1994 for 'A critical account of the conceptualization of moral responsibility in Dutch and British state broadcasting policy'. |
| Dr Ilana Snyder is a senior lecturer in the School of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include: language and literacy education; literacy as a social practice; on-line literacy; reading and writing with computers; issues of access and equity in on-line literacy; critical literacy and the new technologies; and hypertext and contemporary literary theories. Her recent book, Hypertext: The Electronic Labyrinth, is published by Melbourne University Press. |
