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Contributors

JayG.Blumler is Emeritus Professor of the Social and Political Aspects of
BroadcastingattheUniversityofLeeds,England,andEmeritusProfessor
of Journalism at the University of Maryland. A Fellow and Past Presi-
dent of the International Communication Association and a founding
co-editor of the European Journal of Communication,hehas written ex-
tensively on the mass media and politics, including “The Crisis of Public
Communication” (1995, with Michael Gurevitch) and “The Third Age
of Political Communication: Influences and Features” (in vol. 16 (3),
1999, of Political Communication,with Dennis Kavanagh).

Wolfgang Donsbach is Professor of Communication and founding
director of the Department of Communication at the University of
Dresden, Germany. He received his Ph.D. and his postdoctoral Habili-
tation at the University of Mainz. Prior to his current position he taught
at the universities of Dortmund, Mainz, and Berlin. He was a Fellow
at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University, New
York,in 1989–90, and Lombard Visiting Professor at Harvard University,
Cambridge, in 1999. From 1995 to 1996 he was president of the World
Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), and from 2004 to
2005 he is president of the International Communication Association
(ICA). He also served as chair of the International Association for Media
and Communication Research (IAMCR) Psychology and Public Opin-
ion section and of the ICA Political Communication division. He is
managing editor of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
His main research interests are in journalism, political communication,
and media effects.

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