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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

on popular music for several newspapers. He is co-editor (with James Lull) of
Media Scandals: Morality and Desire in the Popular Culture Marketplace.
Steve Jones is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at
the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is author or editor of several books,
including Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety, Virtual Culture, and The Inter-
net for Educators and Homeschoolers. Additional information can be found at
http://info.comm.uic.edu/jones
Stephanie Kucker received a master’s degree in Communication from the
University of Illinois-Chicago in 1999, where she studied computer-
mediated communication and Internet technologies. She has co-authored
several articles on the role of computer-mediated communication in
scientific work and consulted for the Pew Charitable Trust on the role
of the Internet in education and everyday life. She currently works in
Chicago as marketing and communications coordinator for VRCO, Inc., a
hi-tech industry firm, and as Adjunct Instructor of Communication at the
University of Illinois-Chicago.
Mirja Liikkanen is a Senior Researcher in the Unit for Culture and Media
Statistics, Helsinki, Finland. Her licentiate’s degree is in Sociology from the
University of Helsinki. She has published several articles and chapters on
culture, leisure, cultural consumption, media use, and gender. She is especially
interested in the role of cultural hierarchies, processes of exclusion and
inclusion, and national cultures. Recently she has been consulting the
European Union and UNESCO on improving transnational information on
culture.

James Lull is Professor of Communication Studies at San José State University,
California. He also teaches regularly at several universities in Latin America.
He is author or editor of many books, including Media, Communication,
Culture: A Global Approach, Media Scandals, Popular Music and Communication,
China Turned On, Inside Family Viewing, and World Families Watch Television.
He holds an honorary doctorate in Social Sciences from the University
of Helsinki, Finland. Home page: http://members.aol.com/JamesLull

Paul Messaris is Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania. He teaches and does research in the area of visual
communication. His research has dealt with the way in which people make
sense of visual representations in still and moving images; with the persuasive
uses of visual media; and with the cultural implications of narrative conven-
tions in movies and other forms of visual storytelling. He is author of Visual
Literacy: Image, Mind, and Reality (winner of the National Communication
Association’s Diamond Anniversary Award) and Visual Persuasion: The Role of
Images in Advertising.

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