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 | Kelly McWilliam (M/C Reviews general editor) | |
| Having heard much about the famed "real world", Kelly remains enthusiastic about the opportunities associated with avoiding it. Indeed, alongside healthy obsessions with sugar, caffeine, public sneering and "creative microwave cooking", Kelly currently spends most of her time considering global hunger, existential guilt, ecological sustainability, world peace and the meaning of life. In her spare time, she is enrolled in a PhD at UQ, studying representations of female queerness in contemporary film. | | |
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| Emma Nelms ('events' section editor) | |
| Emma is a postgraduate at the University of Queensland. She has recently submitted her MA on national identity and masculinity within the texts of Hanif Kureishi. Her other interests include Nineteenth century English literature and culture and letting herself eat cake. | | |
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| Christine Dauber ('objects' section editor) | |
| Christine Dauber is a Ph.D Candidate and is also a confirmed museum hopper and art history buff. Her research interests lie in the area of national
museums and the representation of indigenous cultures and peoples. This has ensured that she has had, and will continue to have interesting places to
go, such as the Museum of Civilisation, Hull Quebec, Te Papa, Wellington and the Museum of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. | | |
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| Kate Douglas ('screens' section editor) | |
| This gig allows Kate to realise a life-long wish to ‘talk film’, long and often. In a previous life, she gained degrees in social work and arts (english) at the University of Newcastle before moving to Brisbane to commence her PhD at UQ in late 1999. Her current research interests include contemporary self-representations (autobiographies, confessionals, diaries) and reality TV. She maintains an amateur fascination with the Premier League, The Eurovision Song Contest, and the song lyrics of her favourite female singer-songwriters. | | |
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| Axel Bruns ('sounds' section editor) | |
| One of the major interests in Axel's life is music. Having realised he wasn't any good at playing an instrument, he became a collector -- his main focus is on the resurgent genre of Progressive Rock, and other styles similarly off the industry-polluted mainstream. He is also a passionate movie-goer, leaning particularly towards Canadian and French cinema. | | |
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| Catriona Mills ('words' section editor) | |
| Catriona Mills is currently a postgraduate student at the University of QLD. | | |
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| Mark Andrejevic is an assistant professor of communication at Fairfield University in the USA. His dissertation was on reality TV, and his ongoing
research interests include on-line surveillance, personal Webcams and digital aesthetics. | | |
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| Professor Paul Attallah is the Associate Director of the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. He has written extensively on communication and cultural theory, including two books: Les Théories de la Communication: Sens, Sujet, Savoir (Éditions Boréal, 1991) and Les Théories de la Communication: Histoire, Context, Pouvoir (1989). He is a leading expert on North American television and has produced many articles and commentaries on contemporary culture, in both academic and popular sources. Although he may remember how to, he rarely drives. His memory, as far as we know, is still intact. | | |
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| Dr. Atton is the author of Alternative Literature (Gower, 1996) and numerousarticles on radical media. He is particularly interested in the use of suchmedia by new social movements and in the development of fanzines and zinesunder new technology. In 1998 he was awarded the American LibraryAssociation's prestigious Eubanks Award 'in recognition of his outstandingachievements in promoting alternative media'. His second book, asociocultural study of alternative and radical media, will be published bySage. | | |
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| Gareth Barkin is a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at Washington
University. He is currently conducting ethnographic fieldwork on popular
television and the creation of class-cultural distinctions in Jakarta,
Indonesia. Other research interests include cultural and lifestyle modeling in
emerging and interactive media. His website can be found at: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~gsbarkin | | |
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Michael Beltz is a doctoral student in Cultural Studies at George Mason
University. His work focuses on television representations of political
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| Donna Lee Brien teaches and is completing a Ph.D. (in biography) in theCreative Writing Section at Queensland University of Technology,Brisbane. She is currently writing a fictionalised biography of Mary Dean(b. 1876), wife of infamous poisoner George Dean. | | |
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| Laurence Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at the University of Queensland. He is editor of the E-Journal Access: History, and is currently working at Ipswich for the LearningResources Development Unit which is dedicated to the development of flexible delivery inAustralian tertiary studies. | | |
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| Candice Burgess is a librarian by day but by night she is an aspiring singer
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| Alex Burns writes and edits content for Disinformation,the award-winning subcultures search-engine, and is author of the forthcoming book DivineInterventions: Essays & Reflections on the Century ofIdentity Confusion (21.C Books). | | |
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| Yesim Burul is a PhD student at ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural
Analysis) and a teaching assistant at the Department of Communication,
Istanbul Bilgi University (on leave). She is currently researching for
her PhD thesis, which focuses on identity formation and the uses and
abuses of and by media among 2nd and 3rd generation European Turks. As
a former radio producer and editor, she has an obsessional interest in
all forms of popular culture, and still dreams about going back to good
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| Lara Cain is a student and tutor at the Queensland University of Technology where she is currently researching aPh.D. thesis. Her work looks at the international transfer of Australian novels and the ways in which Australianismsare translated for outside readers. Her research also considers issues of funding, promotion and definitions ofcultural identity, and legitimates her voracious reading of grotty novels full of swearing and pop culture. | | |
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| If it's got spaceships in it, you can guarantee that Nick Caldwell will beinterested. Whether this is a result of some deep-seated Freudiananxieties, or merely a love of giant cylindrical objects that commandthe apocalyptic forces of nature, who can say? But anyone who trieswill be hearing from his solicitor. | | |
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| Dianna is a PhD student at the University of Queensland, writing a thesis which examines images of the witch in contemporary fiction and culture. | | |
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| Diane Caney is a writer, poet and freelance web-manager/author. She is currently assistant editor and web-manager of "Australian Humanities Review", an online journal. In 1999 she was awarded an Australia Council grant with Robin Petterd to complete "Archiving Imagination", an array of net.lit. Caney's works/collaborations, can be accessed from her web-site "over there". | | |
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| Sam Carroll is wading through her Research Masters at the University ofQueensland, carefully balancing her obsessive-compulsive tendency tolist-making with brief moments of grammatical sloth, so demonstrating thefact that self-indulgence is generally a very satisfying thing (particularlywhen it involves spelling, the vernacular and high-cal. sweeties). In afurther demonstration of the Inscrutability of Woman she likes botheasy-read and extra-complex texts (hence a thesis analysing Brisbane'sbroadloid Courier-Mail and a passion for hard-core science fiction and crimenovels). As a feminist, she slavers at the thought of political debate, andas a student she relishes the actuality of institutional gossip. | | |
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| Linda Carroli is a writer, curator and artist. She has produced several hypertexts both collaboratively and independently including an award winning collaboration with Josephine Wilson, *Water writes always in *Plural. Her most recent work is a hypertext essay, speak. | | |
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| Nick's currently wading through a PhD in pure mathematics, but is more
well-known as an occasional drag performer, tap-dancer and socialite. He
likes a film that is well thought through. He is running a queer
reading group based at UQ called Quook (email him for details). His ideal
first date is a game of scrabble, and he avoids men who wear white jeans. | | |
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| Nathan Cook is a 1998 graduate of Newberry College in South Carolina andwill begin graduate work at Hollins College in Virgina this September. Hehas recently ended a stint working for the Cartoon Network where he was, fora time, Space Ghost's male secretary (a job that is exactly as interestingas it sounds). | | |
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| David Cox is a film maker, writer and lecturer in digital screenproduction at Griffith University's School of Film Media and CulturalStudies. He's into japanese animation, videogames, The Situationists,media archeology and all that kind of culture jammer stuff. His Website ishttp://www.netspace.net.au/~dcox/dcox.html. | | |
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| Over the past few years Joseph has developed a passion for the popular. A devourer and devotee of magazine culture, gossip, and celebrities, hehas developed a strong interest in the development and movement oftrends. By absorbing music, movies, and literature, from classic totrash, he has attempted to incorporate, de-bunk, and analyse thesetrends from a "generation next" (insert groan of distaste here)perspective. | | |
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| Sunanda Creagh has co-produced the zines Spammy and Spill the Soup,and her own production Untitled. She is studying journalism at theUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS). | | |
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| Pierina Curties is a fan of just about anything, though she knows what about anything she likes. She has a degree in English Literature and Psychology from the Uni of Queensland and is currently studying Creative Writing at QUT. Pierina dabbles in the Visual Arts and is currently smitten with the creation of kitschy sculpture. | | |
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| Lincoln Dahlberg is in the final stages of his doctoral thesis insociology at the School of Sociology and Women's Studies, MasseyUniversity, New Zealand. His thesis research focusses on the possibilityof the Internet enhancing the public sphere. In the near future heplans to continue to pursue questions around the role of new informationand communications technology in local and global processes ofdemocratisation and social justice. | | |
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| Anne is a librarian with interests in both standard library work andcomputing/electronic issues. Working with the Electronic Unit at theNational Library of Australia since its inception in April 1996 has given herthe opportunity to combine both her working passions. On a personal level, sheis an animal lover (especially cats), enjoys reading, walking, movies, goodfood, wine and company and enjoys watching high quality rugby union matches(she's a Brumbies and Wallabies supporter). | | |
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| Eleonora is unrehabilitatively addicted to linguistics and is likely todie of frustration without it. Her current area of interest is firstlanguage attrition in a second language environment, as opposed to firstlanguage attrition due to slovenliness. | | |
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| Karen Gai Dean received her PhD for her Cultural Studies
dissertation on the image of Richard Nixon (English, La Trobe). She currently lectures in Humanities
(literature and film/media) at the University of Ballarat. | | |
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| Anything to do with the entertainment industry and you have Damien's undivided attention. He is a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the University of Queensland and strives for a career in the film industry. He derives immense pleasure from listening to a diverse menu of music. To him there is simply nothing more captivating than a senstadium cinematic experience or the sensation of a live concert. He also enjoys the outdoors and works as a lifeguard. Would you put your life in this guy's hands? | | |
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Peter Donnelly is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Sport Policy Studies in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto. He is interested in sport policy and politics, and identity issues in sport. Recent books include, Taking Sport Seriously (Thompson); and (with Jay Coakley) Inside Sports (Routledge).
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| Nicola Doering is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Psychology Department at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Socialpsychological aspects of computer-mediated communication are among her major research interests. For more details visit her homepage at http://www.nicoladoering.de/. | | |
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| Paul Elliott (aka Gonzo Macmillan) | |
| Gonzo Macmillan (aka Paul Elliott) is showing his age by proclaiming hiszine experience as the publisher of 7 issues of the zine Eyeball inSydney between 1972-73, and ensuring its credibility by being charged with5 counts of publishing an obscene publication. These days Gonzo amuseshimself operating PolyEster Books, Melbourne's centre for counter-culturaldissemination. He has aspirations to become a film-maker. Listen toGonzo on Mondo PolyEster live on the internetevery Tuesday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. | | |
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Christine Fogg is a writer who returned to Brisbane 18 months ago from a decade in Sydney, and after recovering from her shock at finding so much live performance happening in Brisbane, dived right into enjoying it, in between tutoring in journalism and media studies with the Faculty of Creative Industries at QUT.
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| Professor Field is a founding member of the Franklin Pierce Law Center faculty and has taught copyright and otherintellectual property law for nearly 30 years. As an author, teacher, editor of a refereed journal published inhard copy and, belatedly, online, Field has ample opportunity to see problems addressed here from each of several,often competing, perspectives. He says, "you bail; the hole is on your end of the boat" is a bad strategy. His home page is at http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/tgf.htm. | | |
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| Megan Foley recently received her undergraduate degree from Mary Baldwin College at the age of 18, and is now fervently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She plans on continuing the investigation of mediated (quasi-)personal
relationships in the context of reality television, and is currently conducting research on emotion management in partner selection and the influences of hegemony on hate and anti-hate speech. | | |
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| Adam Ford is the editor of the zine Duck Fat, the poetry journal &, and the creator of the comics The Amazing Atavistic Adventures of the Fish and Neuronn, the Creature from a Human Brain! He is currently working on two new comics, as well as the latest issues of & and Duck Fat (as always). In his other life he is an editor at Lonely Planet. In yet another life he is the author of a collection of poetry called Not Quite the Man for the Job. Contact him at ihaveseenthefish@jahoopa.comor PO Box 1297, North Fitzroy, Victoria 3068, Australia. | | |
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| Holly Forsythe is currently a doctoral student at the University of
Toronto who is writing a dissertation on "P.R." in George Eliot's early
fiction whenever she manages to ignore the television. Her research
interests include Victoriana; scandals, celebrity/public image and "the
author"; intersections between biography and literature; publishing
practices and fads; Rezeptionsästhetik, cultural studies, feminist and
queer theory approaches; history of the novel | | |
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| John Fraim is President of The GreatHouse Company. Located in northernCalifornia's wine district of Sonoma County, GreatHouse is a research,consulting and publishing firm in the area of symbolism and popular culture.Before starting GreatHouse, he worked in a number of businessmanagement positions. He was Staff Analyst with Chevron USA (San Francisco),President of Pacific Marketing Strategies, a marketing consulting firm withoffices in Berkeley and Los Angeles, and Marketing Manager for AcuSportCorporation in Ohio. He has a BA in History (Cum Laude) from UCLA and a JDfrom Loyola Law School (Los Angeles). His book Spirit Catcher won the 1997 Small Press Award. His forthcoming booksare Symbolism of Place: The Hidden Context ofCommunication and The Symbolism of Popular Culture: Dynamics of LeadingBrands, Products and Entertainment Genres. His articles have appeared ina wide range of publications such as The Marketing Journal (officialpublication of the American Marketing Association), Sonoma Business andPsychological Perspectives. He is a member of Publishers MarketingAssociation and the San Francisco Chapter of the American MarketingAssociation. | | |
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| Vida Zorah Gabe is a fresh graduate from the Ateneo de Manila University in
the Philippines. Currently unemployed, she spends her time reading, watching
movies, and trying to find ways to bring peace and goodwill to everyone on
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| Radhika Gajjala, Assistant Professor in the Department of Interpersonal Communication, Bowling Green State University. Member Spoon Collective and co-moderator for postcolonial email discussion list. Founder of Third-World-Women list, Sa-cyborgs list and Women-Writing-Culture list. One of several moderators for SAWNET (South Asian Women's Network) since 1994. Has published poetry and experimental prose here and there over the last 18years. Has published articles related to cyberfeminism/cyberculture in journals such as "Gender and Development" and "Works and Days." | | |
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| Michael D. Giardina is a doctoral student in Kinesiology and Cultural Studies Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. His current research focuses on the intersecting planes of trans/national identity, popular culture, and sport from a postmodern cultural studies perspective. | | |
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| Kathryn Goldie completed her MA thesis at the University of Queensland in 1998 on representations of gender andsexuality in the popular TV show Gladiators. Sustained by occasional doses of Polish, Hungarian and Austriantelevision, she spent three months backpacking through Eastern Europe, and has returned to Brisbane to embark on amagnificent career in university administration. | | |
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Gerard Goggin, PhD is Lecturer in Media Studies, School of Humanities, Media and Cultural Studies, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW.
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Chloe Goodyear studied Theatre at QUT and currently works for the producers of the Woodford Folk Festival. She is growing more and more interested in the strange divide between folk and pop culture. | | |
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Lisa Gunders is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Queensland. She is interested in a range of things, including media, politics, and education, and especially how language functions in these areas as a way of creating 'realities' and maintaining power relations. | | |
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| John Gunders is enrolled in a Ph.D. at the University of Queensland,where he is studying the symbolism of food in cultural texts. His favourite theorists are Pierre Bourdieu, Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright. | | |
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| Roger Haden is a Ph.D. candidate at UTS working within the discipline of cultural studies, on a thesis that is a history and philosophy of the sense of taste. | | |
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| Jay Hamilton teaches courses on advertising and society, and cultural-criticaltheory at the University of Georgia. His research interests focus on thehistory, theory and practice of alternative media, and on critical mediapedagogy as assisted by digital technology. He is currently writing acritical history of alternative media and producing a Website thatillustrates the pedagogical value of montage as a form and practice ofcritique. | | |
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| William Hatherell is a lecturer in written communication at QUT and is writing a PhD at UQ on Brisbane cultural history. He has masters degrees in literature and organisational communication, and has dabbled in linguistics. | | |
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| Byron Hawk is a Ph.D. candidate in English (Rhetoric and Critical Theory) at the University of Texas at Arlington, working on his dissertation entitled "On Vitalism: An Ethics, Politics and Pedagogy of Decomposition." He has published review articles in Enculturation and Post Script, hyper | |
