Notes on Contributors

Daniel A. Berkowitz is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and associate dean in the Graduate College at the University of Iowa. His research includes social and cultural approaches to the study of news and news production, with an emphasis on mythical narrative and collective memory. He has published in journals such as Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Memory Studies, and the International Communication Gazette. He has also published two edited volumes, Social Meanings of News and Cultural Meanings of News.

Amy Bleakley is a senior research scientist in the Health Communication Group at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on investigating media effects on health risk behaviors and on using theory to create evidence-based health interventions.

Brett A. Borton is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort. A former print journalist and integrated communications specialist, his research interests are in sustainability of journalism, communication and culture, and media law.

Catherine Cassara is Associate Professor of Journalism, Bowling Green State University, and the author of articles and book chapters on international news coverage and human rights in American newspapers, media use, protest, and the impact of Al Jazeera in Tunisia. She worked for six years with colleagues at universities in Tunisia and Algeria.

Guo-Ming Chen is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island. His research interests are in intercultural/organizational/global communication. Chen has published numerous articles and books. Those books include Foundations of Intercultural Communication; Communication and Global Society; Chinese Conflict Management and Resolution; and Theories and Principles of Chinese Communication.

Clifford G. Christians is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Journalism, and Professor of Media Studies Emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana. He co-auhored Normative Theories of the Media (2009), and is editor (with Kaarle Nordenstreng) of Communication Theories in a Multicultural World (forthcoming).

Yoel Cohen is Associate Professor, School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel. His research interests include media and religion in Israel and in Judaism; religion and news; foreign news reporting; defence and the media. His book publications include God, Jews & the Media: Religion & Israel’s Media (2012); Whistleblowers and the Bomb: Vanunu, Israel and Nuclear Secrecy (2005); The Whistleblower of Dimona: Vanunu, Israel & the Bomb (2003); Media Diplomacy: The Foreign Office in the Mass Communications Age (1986). His research has appeared in the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Gazette, the Journal of Media & Religion, Israel Affairs, the Review of International Affairs, and the Encyclopaedia of Religion, Communication & Media. He was Israel Media editor of Encyclopaedia Judaica.

Jeffrey Crouch is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Presidential Pardon Power (2009).

Kevin Cummings is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Mercer University and is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Women and Gender Studies. His research examines the rhetoric surrounding domestic terrorism. More recently, his work has explored the figure of the terrorist and the figure of the citizen.

Xiaodong Dai is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages at Shanghai Normal University, China. His major research interests are cultural identity, identity negotiation, and intercultural communication theory. Dai has published numerous articles. His most recent books are Identity and Intercultural Communication: Theoretical and Contextual Construction and Intercultural Communication Theories.

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, Denzin is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Searching for Yellowstone; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Voyeur’s Gaze; and The Alcoholic Self. He is former editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln) of four editions of the landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of five plenary volumes from the annual Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, co-editor (with Lincoln) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, and editor of three book series.

Wimal Dissanayake teaches at the Academy for Creative Media, University of Hawai’i and is a Senior Fellow at the East–West Center Hawai’i. He was formerly director of international cultural studies at the East West Center. Dissanayake is the author and editor of a large number of books on cinema and culture published by prestigious presses. He is the founding editor of the East–West Film Journal.

P. Mark Fackler is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois. His recent books include Ethics and Evil in the Public Sphere (edited with his present co-editor, Robert Fortner) and Ethics for Public Communication (co-edited with Clifford Christians and John Ferre). He teaches and does media research in East Africa.

Robert S. Fortner is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Bulgaria. His research interests include media theory, international communication, media ethics, philosophy of technology, media cultural history, and political economy of the media. He has written and edited nine books and published essays in several others, along with publications in communication and media journals. He has conducted field research in twenty-two countries examining the application of new technologies and the credibility of the media, mostly in the developing world. His last work was a co-edited (with P. Mark Fackler) Blackwell International Handbook of Journalism and Mass Communication Ethics.

Ana Cristina Correia Gil teaches Portuguese culture, culture and identity, journalism, and media and mass culture at the University of the Azores. She is currently the director of the mass media communication and culture degree. Her research interests are identity issues and their relation to theory of culture, national culture and mass culture. She frequently participates in conferences and she is the coordinator of the newspaper (S)Em Rede, produced by students and teachers of the mass media and culture degree and published in Açoriano Oriental, Portugal’s most ancient newspaper. In Açoriano Oriental she publishes a weekly opinion column.

Ellen W. Gorsevski researches contemporary peacebuilding rhetoric (persuasive advocacy) in social and environmental justice movements. Her recent articles appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, the Western Journal of Communication, and Environmental Communication. Her books are Peaceful Persuasion: The Geopolitics of Nonviolent Rhetoric (2004) and Dangerous Women: The Rhetoric of the Women Nobel Peace Laureates (2013).

Cynthia Gottshall is the Davenport Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Mercer University and is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Women and Gender Studies. Her teaching and research interests are in representations of sex, gender, and sexuality in the American media.

Shelton A. Gunaratne is Professor of Mass Communications Emeritus at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He earned a doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 1972. Thereafter he taught journalism for 35 years in Malaysia, Australia, and the United States. He started his career as a journalist in Sri Lanka (1962–1967). After retirement he published an autobiographic trilogy in 2012, one titled Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate, the other two titled From Village Boy to Global Citizen. The first bears the subtitle The Life Journey of a Journalist; the second and third, The Travels of a Journalist.

Lei Guo, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, has, together with Maxwell McCombs, initiated a new line of research, explicating the third level of agenda setting.

Kai Hafez is Professor of International and Comparative Media and Communication Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He was a senior associate fellow at the University of Oxford and a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo. Hafez is on the...