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versity (CEU) in Budapest. She has been producing radio and organizing
media campaigns for the past 20 years and has helped build community
radio stations in the United States and Tanzania with the Prometheus Radio
Project. She is coeditor of the Handbook of Alternative Media and the author
of numerous chapters and articles.

garry Crawford is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Salford.
His research focuses primarily on media audiences and fan cultures. In particu-
lar, he has published on sport fan culture, including the book Consuming Sport:
Sports, Fans and Culture, and more recently, on digital gaming patterns. He is
review editor for Cultural Sociology.

John D.h. Downing is Director of the Global Media Research Center in the
College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois Univer-
sity, Carbondale. His most recent books are Radical Media: Rebellious Com-
munication and Social Movements; the Sage Handbook of Media Studies, of
which he is editor-in-chief; and Representing “Race,” coauthored with Charles
Husband. Previous books include Film and Politics in the Third World; Ques-
tioning the Media: A Critical Introduction; and Internationalizing Media The-
ory. He has also recently published a series of shorter studies of the global
Independent Media Center movement, is editing an encyclopedia of social
movement media, and is an editor of the new journal Global Media and Com-
munication.

Diane Farsetta is the Senior Researcher at the Center for Media and Democ-
racy (CMD), a nonprofit media watchdog group that focuses on the public re-
lations industry. She heads CMD’s “No Fake News” campaign and coauthored
two investigative multimedia reports on video news releases, “Fake TV News”
and “Still Not the News.” She also contributes to WIMN’s Voices, a group blog
hosted by Women In Media & News, and hosts radio news and public affairs
shows on Pacifica Network affiliate WORT in Madison, Wisconsin.

katherine Frith is Associate Professor of Communication and Information at
Southern Illinois University. Her books include Advertising in Asia: Communi-
cation, Culture and Consumption; Undressing the Ad: Reading Culture in Adver-
tising; and (with Barbara Mueller) Advertising and Societies: Global Issues; and
she has published in multiple collections and journals.

Brian goldfarb is a digital media artist, curator, and Associate Professor of
Communication at the University of California, San Diego. His research and cre-
ative production focuses on media studies and contemporary visual and digital
culture. He is the author of Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the
Classroom. His current projects include Global Tourette, a digital documentary
and transnational media exchange project.
Tom goldstein is Director of the Mass Communications program at the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley. Goldstein, the former dean of the journalism
schools at Columbia University and at Berkeley, has published widely on jour-
nalism standards. His most recent book is Journalism and Truth.