- Ted Turner
Robert Edward Turner III (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is best known as the founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition to CNN, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is well known for his $1 billion pledge to the United Nations donated through his United Nations Foundation.
- Dan Kennedy
Daniel Hoffard "Dan" Kennedy (born July 22, 1982) is an American goalkeeper with the Puerto Rico Islanders, a football team in the USL First Division. Born in Fullerton, California, Kennedy attended El Dorado High School. After graduating, he went on to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he majored in Communication and also played for the soccer team, the UCSB Gauchos, setting a record for number of shutouts.
- Stevan Harnad
Stevan Harnad Stevan Harnad ( http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad ) did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Québec/Montréal. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition.
- Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts (born 1949) has been the Chief Executive Officer Worldwide of the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi since 1997. Roberts is a highly-regarded figure in the advertising industry due to his deep insight and creative mind. In September 2006, Saatchi & Saatchi won a US$430 million JC Penney contract because of the idea of "lovemarks", which was invented and promoted by Roberts. Kevin Roberts is currently attending UCLA.
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1946 -) is Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, which runs FactCheck, a nonprofit devoted to examining the factual accuracy of US political campaign advertisements. She is also a professor of Communication and the former Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Jamieson received a LL.D. from Bates College in 1997. Author of over 90 academic articles and 15 books, …
- Andrew Odlyzko
Andrew Odlyzko is a mathematician who is the head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center. In the field of mathematics he has published extensively on analytic number theory, computational number theory, cryptography, algorithms and computational complexity, combinatorics, probability, and error-correcting codes. In the early 1970s, he was a co-author of one of the founding papers of the modern umbral calculus.
- Warren Weaver
Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator. Weaver graduated in 1919 at the University of Wisconsin with degrees in civil engineering and mathematics. He became an assistant professor of mathematics at Throop College (soon to be re-named the California Institute of Technology) before returning to teach mathematics at Wisconsin (1920–32). He was director of the Division of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation (1932–55), …
- Matt Moore
Matt Moore (born August 9, 1984, in Van Nuys, California is an American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. He was the starting quarterback for the Oregon State Beavers football team from 2005 to 2006.
- Dayanidhi Maran
Dayanidhi Maran (born December 5, 1966, Kumbakonam, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India) is a member of parliament in India’s 14th Lok Sabha from Madras Central constituency. Till May 2007 he was Minister of Communications and IT in the Union Cabinet. He is the son of Late Mr.Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi. He is the younger brother of Kalanidhi Maran, the founder and managing director of Sun Network, …
- Brian Massumi
Brian Massumi is an academic, writer and social critic. He teaches in the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal. Massumi focuses on the philosophies of communication, electronic art, computer-aided design, architecture and the virtual. Massumi is also known for English-language translations of recent French philosophy, including Jean-François Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition (with Geoffrey Bennington) and Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus.
- Marcel Danesi
Marcel Danesi has a PhD in Italian linguistics, and taught Italian for twenty-five years at the University of Toronto, where he is now the director of the Semiotics and Communication Theory program and a professor of anthropology, specializing in youth culture. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999. Danesi is published extensively in English and Italian. He lives in Toronto.
- Karl Bartos
Karl Bartos was born on 31 May, 1952 in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Between 1975 and 1991 Bartos, along with Wolfgang Flür, was an electronic percussionist in the Electronic music quartet known as Kraftwerk. He was originally recruited to play on their US "Autobahn" tour, and his improvisations were an essential part of the earlier Kraftwerk recordings.
- Hal Riney
Hal Riney (born 1932) is an American advertising executive and founder of Publicis & Hal Riney. Riney was named number 30 on the "Advertising Age" 100 people of the 20th century. He was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2001. Riney grew up in Longview, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1954. After serving two years in the United States Army doing public relations in Italy, he joined BBDO San Francisco, …
- Denis McQuail
Denis McQuail is an academic and writer within the field of communications. He has written over a dozen books since 1968, mostly concerned with mass media. Best known is his contribution to the education of the public, concerning communication theory. His work has centered on explaining communication theories and their applications. He is adamant about informing the public on the benefits and dangers of mass communication.
- Janet Murray
Janet H. Murray , Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Ivan Allen College
- Sut Jhally
Sut Jhally is a professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, regarded as one of the world’s leading cultural studies scholars in the area of advertising, media, and consumption. He is the producer of several documentaries on media literacy topics and the founder and executive director of the "Media Education Foundation", …
- Nick Yee
Nick Yee is an American researcher who studies self-representation and social interaction in virtual environments. The Daedalus Project, his research into the psychology and sociology of MMORPGs, has collected survey data from over 40,000 game players. The research that has resulted from these interviews has been cited extensively by game scholars, game developers, and popular media. Yee's research has appeared in "The New York Times", …
- Mizuko Ito
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist at the University of Southern California and Keio University, specializing in studies of media technology use. Currently, her work focuses on Japanese technoculture, including children's media mixes and youth mobile phone use. She is co-editing a book on Japanese mobile phone use entitled "Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life."
- Stephen Toulmin
Stephen Edelston Toulmin (born March 25, 1922) is a British philosopher, author, and educator. Influenced by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toulmin devoted his works to the analysis of moral reasoning. Throughout his writings, he seeks to develop practical arguments which can be used effectively in evaluating the ethics behind moral issues. His works were later found useful in the field of rhetoric for analyzing rhetorical arguments.
- Brian Unger
Brian Unger is an American comedian, writer, producer, and commentator. He was an original contributor to "The Daily Show", from 1996 to 1998. Currently, he provides regular commentary for the NPR show "Day to Day" and guest hosts MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann". Unger is a native of Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University in 1987, where he majored in communication.
- Joseph Tainter
Joseph A. Tainter is a U.S. anthropologist and historian. He studied anthropology at the University of California and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. He is Project Leader of Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has taught anthropology at the University of New Mexico, and is the author or editor of many articles and monographs.
- Karl Deutsch
Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912 - 1992) was a German-American social and political scientist. His work focused on the study of war and peace, nationalism, co-operation and communication. He is also well known for his interest in introducing quantitative methods and formal system analysis and model-thinking into the rather rhetorical field of political and social sciences, and is one of the most well known social scientists of the 20th century.
- Terri Seymour
Terri Seymour (born Theresa Helene Seymour in 1975 in Hertfordshire, England) is a British television presenter and sometime actress best known for being the girlfriend of "The X Factor" and "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell since 2002. She first found success as a commercial model appearing in catalogues and commercials, …
- Howard Rheingold
howard rheingold & mark earl @ nesta I'm at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts ( NESTA ) office in London where Howard Rheingold (who I've known online for many years and have had the pleasure of meeting, and interviewing , on a number of occasions) has just taken the stage to give a presentation about "mass collaboration".
- Jean Aitchison
Jean Aitchison is a Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. In 1987, she identified three stages that occur during a child's acquisition of vocabulary: labelling, packaging and network building.
- Barry Truax
Barry Truax (born 1947) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes. He developed the first ever implementation of real-time granular synthesis, in 1986, the first to use a sample as the source of a granular composition in 1987's "Wings of Nike", and was the first composer to explore the range between synchronic and asynchronic granular synthesis in 1986's "Riverrun".
- Christine L. Borgman
Christine L. Borgman is Professor and University of California Presidential Chair in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She was previously visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University), Loughborough University, Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University (University of Budapest), …
- Rob Frieden
Rob Frieden holds the Pioneers Chair and serves as Professor of Telecommunications at Penn State University. Frieden holds a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania (1977) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia (1980). Before accepting an academic appointment, Frieden practiced law in Washington, D.C., and served as Assistant General Counsel at PTAT Systems, Inc.
- Thierry Bardini
Thierry Bardini is a Canadian sociologist. He is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada, where he co-directs the Workshop in Radical Empiricism (with Brian Massumi). He has authored papers and books on hypermedia: he is the author of "Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace", …
- Rollo Carpenter
Rollo Carpenter is the British-born creator of Jabberwacky, a learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatterbot that models, in part, the way humans learn. Carpenter has worked as CTO of a business software startup in Silicon Valley, but returned to the UK to work at Icogno. As Managing Director of Icogno Ltd, Carpenter is developing AI for entertainment, companionship and communication. His AI entries George and Joan were #1 for Loebner Prize (2005) and (2006).
- Vincent Covello
Dr. Vincent Covello is the founder and Director of the Center for Risk Communication. He is a leading contributor in the field of risk communication - a science-based approach for communicating effectively in high concern situations. Over the past 25 years, he has held numerous positions in academia and government, including Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Clinical Medicine at Columbia University. Prior to his joining the faculty at Columbia, Dr.
- Ivana Markova
Ivana Markova (born 1938) is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Stirling, known for her work on language and the constructs of communication. She was born in Czechoslovakia and studied philosophy and psychology at Charles University in Prague. In 1968 she moved to the United Kingdom. She initially worked as Research Fellow at Industrial Training Research Unit, …
- Alexander Halavais
Alex Halavais, professor of informatics at the University at Buffalo, said students are so accustomed to instant information that "the idea of spending an hour or two to find that good source is foreign to them."
- Lewis A. Coser
Lewis Coser (27 November 1913-8 July 2003) was an US-American sociologist. Born in Berlin ("Ludwig Coser"), Coser was the first sociologist to try to bring together structural functionalism and conflict theory; his work was focused on finding the functions of social conflict. Coser argued - with Georg Simmel - that conflict might serve to solidify a loosely structured group. In a society that seems to be disintegrating, conflict with another society, …
- Ellen Feiss
Ellen Feiss (born circa 1987) became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 Errol Morris-directed television commercial for Apple Computer's Switch campaign grew into a cult hit. In the commercial, the then-14-year-old American high school student complained that her father's Windows PC had broken. Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of illicit drugs during the filming of the commercial, …
- Nick Clooney
Nicholas Clooney (born January 13, 1934) is an American television journalist, anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host, as well as a politician from the state of Kentucky. He is the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney, and the father of actor George Clooney.
- Friedemann Schulz von Thun
Friedemann Schulz von Thun is a famous German psychologist and communication scientist who works as a professor at the University of Hamburg. He wrote a very popular three part German book "Miteinander Reden" ("To talk with each other") which deals with communication. In 2007 the Schulz von Thun Institute for Communication was founded.
- Noah Samara
Noah A. Samara is an Ethiopian-born lawyer better known for being the founder and Chief Executive Officer of WorldSpace,the world's first to launch satellite radio. He also played a pivotal role in the foundation of XM Satellite Radio. He claimed in many instances that the driving motive for the foundation of WorldSpace is to give millions of people in Asia and Africa access to information, so as to facilitate the curbing of the spread of disease in those regions, …
- Adel Iskandar
Adel Iskandar (aka Adel Iskandar Farag) (born March 15 1977) is a Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist and media reform activist. He is the author and co-author of several seminal works on Arab media, most prominently the first major analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera. Born to an Egyptian family of physicians in Edinburgh, Scotland, he grew up in Kuwait, escaping the Iraqi invasion and the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
- Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. At one point, he was the most widely read non-English-language science fiction author in the world.. His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, …