About the Authors
Rachel Carnegie Rachel Carnegie is a consultant on life skills education, health promotion and participatory communication. She has worked in these fields for the past 16 years in South Asia and Africa. She was responsible for the creative development of the Meena Communication Initiative in South Asia, and core adviser to the Sara Communication Initiative in Africa. Email: [email protected]
Nico Carpentier Nico Carpentier (PhD, University of Antwerp, Belgium) is a media sociologist working at the Free University of Brussels. His research interests are mainly focused on the application of discourse theory in (media)domains as sexuality, conflict, journalism, (political and cultural) participation and democracy. He has recently completed his Ph.D. on ‘the construction of participation in television talk shows’. His publications include the articles Images of Prostitutes. The Struggle for the Subject Position (1999, in Dutch), Management of Voices. Power and Participation in North Belgian Audience Discussion Programmes (2000); The Identity of the Television Audience (2000, in Dutch) and Managing Audience Participation (2001). Email: [email protected]
Gary Coldevin in Collaboration with the Communication for Development Group of the FAO Gary Coldevin (PhD, University of Washington, Seattle) is a full- time international consultant specializing in development communication and distance education. Previously, he was a Professor for twenty-five years in the Graduate Programme in Educational Technology, Concordia University, Montreal. He has collaborated with FAO, principally as a communication campaign specialist, on several assignments since 1983. His research interests are focussed on the design, delivery, and quantitative evaluation of a mix of low- to high-end technologies for development, and emerging best practices.
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Email: [email protected]
For more information on the FAO Communication for Development Group, Extension, Education and Communication Service contact: L. Van Crowder, Senior Officer, Communication for Development, Extension, Education and Communication Service (SDRE), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy. Email: [email protected]
Royal Colle Royal Colle (PhD, Cornell University, USA) is Graduate School Professor of Communication at Cornell University in the USA. His research interests are primarily in the application of information and communication technologies in development programs. He has conducted communication workshops in Asia and Africa for the World Health Organization and has been engaged in development communication projects as a consultant for FAO, the World Bank, USAID, the Ford Foundation, and the Academy for Educational Development. Email: [email protected]
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron Alfonso Gumucio Dragon is a Bolivian development communication specialist with experience in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. He worked for seven years with UNICEF in Nigeria and Haiti, and as an international consultant for FAO, UNDP, UNESCO and other UN agencies. Since 1997 he has been part of the Rockefeller Foundation discussion group on ‘Communication for Social Change’. E-mail: [email protected]
Robert Huesca Robert Huesca (PhD, The Ohio State University, USA) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at Trinity University of San Antonio, Texas. His research interests include the role of communication in new social movements, alternative media, and labor organizing in Mexico. His most recent research has been
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published in ‘Communication Theory’ and in the ‘Handbook of International and Intercultural Communication’ (second edition). Email: [email protected]
Rico Lie Rico Lie (PhD, Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium) is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication and is a social anthropologist working at the Research Centre 'Communication for Social Change' (CSC) of the K.U. Brussel, Belgium. His research interests include cultural globalization/localization, identity and consumption, intercultural communication, and qualitative research methodologies. His most recent publications include: Spaces of Intercultural Communication. An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Communication, Culture and Globalizing/Localizing Identities (in press, Hampton Press); Globalization, Development and ‘Communication for Localization’ (2001, Journal of International Communication); Globalization: Consumption and Identity. Towards Researching Nodal Points (2000, Routledge). Email: [email protected]
Patchanee Malikhao Patchanee Malikhao is a senior consultant and researcher in mass communication and printing technology. She has been involved in projects for both public and private, national and international organisations, such as Agfa Gevaert, AMIC, the Europe-Asia Foundation, UNESCO, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has recently finished a major research project on culture and communication in Thailand. Email: [email protected]
Erma Manoncourt Erma W. Manoncourt is the Deputy Director, Programmes, UNICEF, India. She was Senior Advisor in the Gender, Partnerships and Participation Section, UNICEF, New York prior to her move to South Asia. She was formerly a professor at Tulane University, USA. Email: emanoncourt@unicef.org
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Neill McKee Neill McKee is a senior technical advisor for HIV/AIDS and adolescent health and coordinator of the techncal team on HIV/AIDS at the Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He was formerly a senior communication specialist with UNICEF in Asia and Africa. He is the originator of the Meena and Sara Communication Initiatives and co-founder of Visualization in Participatory Programmes (VIPP). Email: [email protected]
Jan Servaes Jan Servaes (PhD, Louvain University, Belgium) is Director of the Research Centre ‘Communication for Social Change’ (CSC) at the K.U. Brussel, President of the European Consortium for Communications Research (ECCR), and Vice-President of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), in charge of Research and Academic Publications. He has taught, and done research and consultancy work in countries all over the world, including Argentine, Australia, Bhutan, Mexico, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, South-Africa, Thailand and the USA. He is the author of journal articles and books on international communication, media policies, development communication, and critical studies. Email: [email protected]
Sujatha Sosale Sujatha Sosale (PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Her research interests include communication, development and social change; history, theory, structure, and cultural effects of globalization; gender and media representations (focus – South Asia); and media technology and society. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Communication in the making of democracy and development: Mapping a discourse.” Email: [email protected]
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Georgios Terzis Georgios Terzis (PhD, Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium) is the media programs director at European Centre for Common Ground and an adjunct assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Vesalius College in Belgium. He received a Post-doctoral fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel. He also studied Journalism and Mass Communication in Greece, U.K., U.S.A. and The Netherlands. He organized Media.and Conflict Resolution programs and trainings for journalists from Angola,.BiH, Cyprus, Greece, The Middle East, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Roma. Email: [email protected]
Pradip Thomas Pradip N. Thomas is Director, Studies & Publications at the World Association for Christian Communication. His research interests include Intellectual Property Rights and the Media and the Political Economy of Communications. He has recently co-edited Communication & Development: The Freirean Connection and Refugees and their Right to Communicate: Perspectives from South-East Asia. Email: [email protected]
Thomas Tufte Thomas Tufte is Associate Professor at the Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen. He is currently coordinating the interdisciplinary research project ‘HIV/AIDS Communication and Prevention – A Health Communication Research Project 2001-2003’, which deals with this issue in South Africa, Burkina Faso and Vietnam. His recent books include: Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation (In Press. Co-editor with Gitte Stald); Media, Ethnic Minorities and The Multicultural Society – Scandinavian Perspectives (In Press. Editor), Living with the Rubbish Queen – Telenovelas, Culture and Modernity in Brazil (2000) and Audio-Visual Media in Transition (1998. Co-editor with Stig Hjarvard). He is co-editor of the Danish Journal of Communication, member of editorial boards of a number of Latin America journals on culture and communication and associate member of the ORBICOM Network. Email: [email protected]
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Chris Verschooten Chris Verschooten is a researcher at the Department of Communication of the Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium. She is an Indologist and political scientist with an interest in intercultural communication and Indian politics and Indian media. Her doctoral research focuses on the representation and politicisation of caste. Email: [email protected]
Chin Saik Yoon Chin Saik Yoon is publisher for Southbound. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of an Orbicom-Unesco/PAN-IDRC/APDIP-UNDP initiative to publish a regional review on the application and diffusion of ICTs in the Asia-Pacific Region. He is also co-director of an Orbicom-Unesco intiative to develop an index for gauging the Digital Divide. Email: [email protected]
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