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Denver metro area that provides media training to youth in digital video and audio
production, sound engineering, Web design, press coverage, and various other
skills. His research analyzes the democratic potential of your media production.

John hutnyk is Professor and Academic Director of the Centre for Cultural
Studies at Goldsmiths College. He is the author of several books including The
Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation, Critique
of Exotica, and Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies.
gwenyth Jackaway is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Stud-
ies at Fordham University. She is author of Media at War: Radio’s Challenge to
the Newspapers, 1924–1939. Her research and teaching interests include free-
dom of speech, children and media, and media effects.
L. s. kim is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on racial discourse, postfeminism, and
intertextuality. Her current book, Maid for Television: Race, Gender, and Class on
the Small Screen, examines the intersection of race and class relations embodied
in a long history of television maids as integral (rather than marginal) to the
idealized American family. She is also developing writing on “New Orientalism”
(theory and criticism about cross-cultural media forms, for example, the action
genre, and anime) and has published on Asian American media culture.
Jeffery klaehn’s professional work has been published in a wide range of noted
scholarly journals. He is the editor of several books, including Filtering the News:
Essays on Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model, Bound by Power: Intended
Consequences, Inside the World of Comic Books, and Roadblocks to Equality:
Women Confronting Boundaries.
Beth knobel is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at
Fordham University. Before joining the Fordham faculty, she spent 15 years
working in Russia as a journalist, most recently as Moscow Bureau Chief for
CBS News. Dr. Knobel, the winner of an Emmy and several other awards, is cur-
rently working on a book about the coverage of foreign news by U.S. network
television.

Deepa kumar is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers
University. She is author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and
the UPS Strike and has published on media and gender, war, imperialism, glo-
balization, and class.
william m. kunz is Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
program at the University of Washington Tacoma. He is the author of Culture
Conglomerates: Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries.

Paul Levinson is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham
University. His books include The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the
Information Revolution, Cellphone: The Story of the World’s Most Mobile Medium,
Realspace: The Fate of Physical Presence in the Digital Age, and Digital McLuhan:
A Guide to the Information Age.