- Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture , Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games .
- Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows.
- Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall (born February 3 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica) works as a cultural theorist and sociologist in the United Kingdom. He has contributed to key works on culture and media studies, as well as to political debate.
- Michael Jackson
Michael Richard Jackson (born February 11 1958) is a British television producer and executive. He is notable for being one of only three people to have been Controller of both BBC One and BBC Two, the main television channels of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and for being the first media studies graduate to reach a senior level in the British media. He was also the Chief Executive of another major British television station, Channel 4, between 1997 and 2001.
- John Fiske
John Fiske is a professor of communication arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of interest include popular culture, mass culture, and television studies. He is the author of eight books, including "Power Plays, Power Works" (1993), "Understanding Popular Culture" (1989), "Reading the Popular" (1989), and the textbook "Television Culture" (1987), which is widely used in television studies courses.
- Laura Mulvey
Laura Mulvey (born August 15, 1941) is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She worked at the British Film Institute for many years before taking up her current position.
- Graeme Turner
Graeme Turner (born 1947) is an Australian professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Federation Fellow, President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, and Convenor of the ARC Cultural Research Network. Turner gained a Master's Degree from Queen's University, Canada, and his Doctorate from the University of East Anglia, in the UK.
- Stuart Ewen
Stuart Ewen is a New York-based author, historian and lecturer on media, consumer culture and the compliance profession. He is also Distinguished Professor at City University of New York in the departments of history as well as film and media studies.
- Laura Kipnis
Laura Kipnis is a professor of media studies at Northwestern University. She is also an active cultural and media critic who focuses especially on gender issues, pornography, and popular culture. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has received fellowships for her work from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Stuart Cunningham
Stuart Cunningham (born 1953) is Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. He is President of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). With degrees from the University of Queensland, and McGill University in Canada, Cunningham was awarded his Doctorate from Griffith University in Brisbane in 1988.
- Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux, born September 18 1943, is a US cultural critic. He is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. He is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
- Nicholas Garnham
Nicholas Garnham (born 1937) is a British Marxist academic in the field of media studies. He was earlier a documentary film maker. He is as of 2006 Professor at Westminster College.
- Elspeth Probyn
Elspeth Probyn (born 1958) is the Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney. She received her Doctorate in Communications from Concordia University, 1989. She lectures and publishes in fields including cultural studies, media studies and sociology, with a particular focus on food, sexuality and the body. She also writes a fortnightly column in the Higher Education Supplement section of national newspaper "The Australian".
- Johan Galtung
Johan Galtung (born October 24, 1930, in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian professor, founder and co-director of TRANSCEND - A Peace and Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means. He is seen as the pioneer of peace and conflict research and founded the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo. He is also one of the authors of an influential account of news values, the factors which determine coverage given to a given topic in the news media.
- Tony Conrad
Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. His father was Arthur Conrad, who worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing dazzle camouflage for the US Navy. Conrad's most famous film, "The Flicker" (1966), is considered a key early work of the structural film movement.
- Steve Maharey
Steven (Steve) Maharey (born 3 February, 1953) serves as New Zealand's Minister of Education, Minister of Broadcasting, Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Minister for Crown Research Institutes and Minister responsible for the Education Review Office. In recent times he has also been Minister of Social Development and Employment, Minister of Housing, and Minister of Youth Affairs. He is a member of the governing Labour Party.
- David Clarke
Dr. David Clarke is a British university lecturer. He obtained his Ph.D in "Folklore and Cultural Tradition" in 1999, and now teaches Media Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He also lectures on the subjects of supernatural belief and urban legends at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (part of the University of Sheffield). David Clarke is also a freelance journalist and author, …
- Borin van Loon
Borin Van Loon is a freelance illustrator (since 1976). He is an author, collagist and surrealist painter and has worked for a wide variety of clients in editorial, publishing and promotion. He has created an eclectic collage/cartoon mural on the subject of DNA and genetics for the Health Matters Gallery in London's Science Museum. Van Loon published The Bart Dickon Omnibus of his hero's derring-do in 2005 comprising a surrealist collage graphic novel.
- Michael Shanks
Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist who has been at the forefront of thinking and practice in archaeology (usually placed under the banner of post-processualism or interpretive archaeology). He has written widely on archaeology. His disciplinary impact was felt early through his collaboration with colleague Christopher Tilley.
- John Caughie
Professor John Caughie is a member of Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. He is appointed by the Foreign Office and is not paid for this appointment. ... Professor John Caughie has been appointed until 31 August 2007. He is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Film and Television Studies, Glasgow University. He is an active researcher in the field of film and television with interests in British television drama, and British and Scottish cinema.
- Paz Vega
Paz Vega (born Paz Campos Trigo January 2 1976) is a Spanish actress.
- Brigitte L. Nacos
Brigitte L. Nacos is a part time Lecturer in political science at Columbia University. She has written on the news media, the politics of Germany, and terrorism. She is a joint author of a paper which was delivered at the Summer 2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association; the paper addresses the correlation between increases in terrorism alert levels and the popularity of U.S. President George W. Bush.
- Marina Lewycka
Marina Lewycka (born 1946, Kiel) is a British writer of Ukrainian origin long resident in Sheffield, England. Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II. Her family then moved to England where she now lives. She was educated at Keele University and is now a lecturer in media studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
- Phil Redmond
Phil Redmond CBE (born 1949 in Liverpool, brought up in Huyton, Merseyside) is an English television producer and scriptwriter. He is well-known for having created several popular television series such as "Grange Hill" (BBC One, 1978-present), "Brookside" (Channel 4, 1982-2003) and "Hollyoaks" (Channel 4, 1995-). For over twenty years he also ran his own independent production company, Mersey Television, before selling the company off in 2005.
- Mike Nickel
Mike Nickel is a politician in Alberta, Canada. He is a current Municipal Councilor in Edmonton, Alberta. Nickel was born in Edmonton and attended the University of Alberta, earning a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Master's degree in Statistics and Media Studies. During his time at university, Nickel served as President of the University of Alberta Students' Union from 1985 to 1986 and was active in the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
- Jim A. Kuypers
Jim A. Kuypers is an American Academic specializing in communication studies at Virginia Tech. He has written on the news media, rhetorical criticism, and presidential rhetoric. He is particularly known for his work in political communication which explores the qualitative aspects of Framing (social sciences) analysis and its relationship to presidential communication and news media bias.
- Donald N. Wood
Donald N. Wood (born September 20, 1934) is an American environmentalist, educator, critical thinker, media theorist, and writer best known for his works in media production, communication, and postmodernism. A graduate of Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) with a B.A. in Speech and Music, he went on to the University of Michigan, earning both a M.A. and Ph.D. (emphasizing Radio-TV).
- James Halloran
Prof. James Halloran (? - May 16, 2007) was a British communication scholar known for his contribution for the establishment of the field of media studies in the UK. He was also a founder of the International Association of Media and Communication Researchers (IAMCR).
- Kristie Lu Stout
Kristie Lu Stout is an American journalist and news anchor for CNN International. As of 2007, she is the host of CNN's monthly program "Global Office", and co-hosts the daily "CNN Today" with Hugh Riminton, which earned her a 2006 Asian Television Award as Best News Presenter or Anchor. Stout previously hosted CNN's technology program "Spark" and their daily "Tech Watch" segment, wrote the "Beijing Byte" column for the "South China Morning Post", …
- Max Carlish
Max Carlish is a British documentary filmmaker and former lecturer in media studies at the University of Central England in Birmingham, he was born to Jewish parents in the city of Birmingham. Carlish helped produce an Emmy and Bafta-award-winning television series about the Royal Opera House. He is most famous, however, for his attempts to produce a so-called rockumentary about Pete Doherty, singer and guitarist with The Libertines and Babyshambles.
- Precious Lara Quigaman
Precious Lara San Agustin Quigaman (January 3, 1983, Taguig, Philippines) is a model and freelance webpage writer who won the 2005 Miss International beauty pageant held in Tokyo, Japan. She is the fourth Filipina to have won the crown, after Gemma Cruz in 1964, Aurora Pijuan in 1970, and Melanie Marquez in 1979. She was also the Binibining Pilipinas International title holder for 2005.
- Fareed Armaly
"Fareed Armaly" (*1957 Iowa) is an Arab American artist, curator, and editor who lives and works in the US and Berlin, Europe. He became known as an important agent in the field of Context-Art (developed and influenced from Conceptual Art) during the 1990s through several major exhibition projects combining Installation / Architecture, Media, and Information Design. His productions focus on a contemporary artistic practice linked to issues of culture, …
- Kate Edmondson
Kate Edmondson (born November 19, 1983) is a British television presenter, who, in 2006, was selected after a nationwide search to present "The Loaded Hour", sponsored by "Loaded magazine", on Freeview channel TMF. Kate has since gone on to present "TMF Live", as well as "Totally Boyband Live" on sister channel MTV. She currently attends the University of Portsmouth where she is a Media student and a radio presenter on Pure FM, …
- Lola Young Baroness Young of Hornsey
Margaret Omolola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, OBE, (born 1 June 1951), known as Lola Young, is a British artist and teacher. Young was educated at the Parliament Hill School for Girls in London and went then to the New College of Speech and Drama, where she received a diploma in dramatic art in 1975, and a teaching certificate one year later. In 1988 she graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Arts in contemporary cultural studies.
- Becki Pipette
Becki Pipette (also known as RiotBecki born Rebecca Louise Stephens on July 30 1982) is a singer with the band The Pipettes. Brighton-born Becki, who normally stands stage left, is the Pipette with darker blonde hair, glasses and nose ring (she is often described as looking like a librarian).
- Petter Schjerven
Petter Wilhelm Blichfeldt Schjerven is a Norwegian television host, known from Typisk norsk on NRK. He is the partner of Norunn Blichfeldt and has two children. Schjerven has previously worked as the host and scriptwriter for "Midt i smørøyet" and as the producer of the radio program "Holger Nielsens metode" on NRK P3, among other things. During his education, he has studied psychology, Norwegian, media studies, …
- Lia O'Sullivan
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- Martin Lindner
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- Tim Saunders
hey peeps!!me name is tim and im always up up for a laugh!i like to drink alot!!!blue boar every weekend hahahaha!!!i like goin out wit me m8s aswel and always up for meetin some new people!!!so hope to speak to u all soon.