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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. A cataloguing record for this book is available from the British Library. Legal deposit, France: Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Dépôt légal: novembre 2014. Notes on Contributors The Editor Jonathan D. James, Ph.D., is a researcher and writer on media, religion and culture. His research interests include: cultural globalization, the social effects of new media, new religious movements, indigenization, and diaspora Asians in the West. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia and oversees a church-based development and training organization in the Asia-Pacific region. He is the author ofMcDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India (Sage, 2010) and editor of A Moving Faith: Mega Churches go South (Sage, forthcoming, November, 2014). The Reading Committee Assoc. Prof. Panizza Allmark is the program director in Communications at the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, Australia and general editor of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Prof. Michael J. Day is a professor of English at Northern Illinois University, USA and co-editor of the book The Online Writing Classroom (2000). Dr Joyce E. James was formerly a visiting associate professor in Linguistics at the National Institute of Education in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and editor of the RELC Journal. She is the author of Grammar in the language Classroom (SEAMEO, 2003). Dr Beate Josephi is an adjunct lecturer in the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, Australia and author of Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom (2010). iii Notes on Contributors Prof. Sudakar Reddy is professor and head of the Centre for Folk Culture Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. He is the editor of FOSSILS (Folklore Fellows of South Indian Languages) and serves on the editorial boards of Folklore Journal of South Indian Folklorist and Indian Folklore Research Journal. The Authors Michael Jaffarian, a researcher with World-Venture (formerly the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society), is a senior research associate with Operation World. He served for six years as executive director of the Singapore Centre for Evangelism and Missions and for seven years as an editorial associate for the World Christian Encyclopedia, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2001). Nicola F. Johnson, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, Gippsland, Victoria, in the Faculty of Education and Arts of the newly established Federation University, Australia. Her research interests include Internet over- use, technological expertise and the use of digital technologies within formal and informal spaces of learning. She is the author of two books: The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction: The Misrecognition of Leisure and Learning (Ashgate, 2009), and Publishing from your Ph.D.: Negotiating a Crowded Jungle (Gower, 2011). Iremae D. Labucay is a senior survey analyst at Social Weather Stations (SWS), a non-stock, non-profit, social research organization in the Philippines. She has presented papers at international conferences and symposiums including the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) conference held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Carmel O’Reilly has recently completed an online module in Technology Enhanced Learning Teaching and Assessment (TELTA) at level 9 as a component of the MA in Education with the Learning Teaching and Technology Centre at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). She has been researching Mind Mapping as an eLearning tool for the enhancement of learning. She is currently assistant lecturer with DIT specialising in French as a foreign language. Her research iv Notes on Contributors interests include Culinary French and French film and food. Her most recent publication, À table: An exploration of the uses of food in Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion, 1937, appears in the journal of Food & History, Food & History, volume 11, issue 1. Anne Rice, Ph.D., graduated with a BSc. in Sociology and MSc. in Communications in 1997. Since then, she has worked for several years in the community and voluntary sectors. She has extensive experience in managing a wide-range of research projects, such as, emigration research, art therapy research, community audits and feasibility studies. As an independent researcher, Anne is particularly interested in the role of new technologies such as social media in rural communities. Paul Emerson Teusner, Ph.D., completed his graduate studies at the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne. His research explored how people used blogging to negotiate relationships within local communities and online networks in their construction of religious identities. Paul currently manages youth services in a not-for-profit organization in Melbourne. His research interests include how Cyborg Theory may inform us on how young people use mobile devices in their presentations of gender, family and tribe. Etáin Watson is a lecturer in Italian in the School of Languages, Law and Society at Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland. She is a graduate of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, the University of Sussex and University College Dublin. Her research interests are in the use of technology and media in foreign language teaching, Italian film studies and Irish and Sardinian folklore. She has presented papers at conferences in Italy, Spain, Ireland and Albania and has published peer reviewed papers and book chapters in Ireland, the U.S., Italy, Spain and Iran. v Acknowledgements This book would not have been possible without the assistance and encouragement of several institutions and people. I thank the wonderful contributors for their concise and thought-provoking studies. It’s been a real pleasure to collaborate with each one of you. I’m grateful to Edith Cowan University and Dr John Hall for providing valuable editorial support. The preparation of the manuscript for typesetting was in the capable hands of Avrille Wasserman; and I appreciate her labor of love. I’m deeply indebted to the editorial committee for reading the chapters and offering helpful suggestions along the way. To Sylvie Thouësny and the team at Research-publishing.net, I offer sincere appreciation for all your hard work in coordinating this project. Finally and most importantly, I thank my wife Elizabeth and children Ben and Mel for their support, assistance and prayers in enabling me to complete this task. While every effort has been