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Joshua green is a Postdoctoral Associate in the MIT Program in Comparative
Media Studies. His work examines the future of television in a digital environ-
ment, especially the interaction between new distribution platforms, television
branding strategies, and changing audience practices. He has published on
user-generated content; Australian national identity and the composition of the
cultural public sphere; the memorialization of Australian television; television
branding and scheduling strategies; and youth media use.
robert a. hackett is Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University.
He co-directed NewsWatch Canada, a news media monitoring project, from
1993 to 2003, and has helped to found several community-based media action
and education initiatives, including Vancouver’s annual Media Democracy Day.
He is coeditor of Democratizing Global Media: One World, Many Struggles and
The Missing News: Filters and Blind Spots in Canada’s Press, and author of News
and Dissent: The Press and Politics of Peace in Canada and (with Yuezhi Zhao)
Sustaining Democracy: Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity.

DeeDee halleck is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication
at the University of California at San Diego. She is the author of Handheld Visions:
The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media, and is founder of Paper Tiger
Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass-
roots community television network.
margot hardenbergh is on the faculty of the Department of Communication &
Media Studies at Fordham University. She has a background producing docu-
mentaries and public affairs programming for television and published articles
and book chapters on values in the news, television history, and women in jour-
nalism.
C. Lee harrington is Professor of Sociology and Affiliate of the Women’s Stud-
ies Program at Miami University. Her areas of research include television stud-
ies, sociology of culture, and audience/fan studies. She is the coauthor of Soap
Fans: Producing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life and the coeditor
of Popular Culture: Production and Consumption, both with Denise D. Bielby,
and is coeditor of Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World with
Jonathan Gray and Cornel Sandvoss.
arthur s. hayes, an Associate Professor with Fordham University’s Communi-
cation & Media Studies Department, has published in the areas of ethnic media,
journalism ethics, and media law.
heather hendershot is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College
and Director of the Film Studies Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate
Center. She is the author of Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation be-
fore the V-Chip and Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evan-
gelical Culture. Hendershot is also editor of Nickelodeon Nation: The History,
Politics and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids.

Dov zacharia hirsch is Executive Director of Youth Media Worldwide and Mile
High Youth Media, where he manages and coordinates an organization in the