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Contributors

political public sphere, mass media, and gender studies. In her current
research project on mobilizing urban publics, she investigates changes
of local publics in German and U.S. cities.

Paolo Mancini is Professor of Communication and Academic Direc-
torof the School of Broadcast Journalism at the Universit´ adiPerugia,
Italy. He has published several books, including Videopolitica (1985),
Come Vincere le Elezioni (1989), Guardando il Telegiornale (1991), and
Il Giornalismo e le Sue Regole (1992). Many of his works appeared in
international journals such as Theory and Society, European Journal of
Communication, and Journal of Communication.His research concerns
primarilypoliticalcommunicationandcomparativeanalysisofmassme-
dia systems. He recently published, with Dan Hallin, Comparing Media
Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics (2004).

Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. A politi-
cal scientist, her research compares election and public opinion, political
communications,andgenderpolitics.Shehaspublishedmorethanthirty
books, including AVirtuousCircle (2000), Digital Divide (2001), Demo-
cratic Phoenix (2002), Rising Tide (2003), Electoral Engineering (2004),
and Sacred and Secular (2004) for Cambridge University Press.

Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press
in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He
previously taught for many years at Syracuse University, where he took a
position after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. His
recent book The Vanishing Voter, published in 2002, is based on a study of
thedeclineofcitizenparticipationinU.S.elections.Earlierbooksinclude
Out ofOrder,which was recipient of the American Political Science As-
sociation’s Graber Award for the best book in political communication,
and The Unseeing Eye,which was selected by the American Association
for Public Opinion Research as one of the fifty most influential books of
the past half century in the field of public opinion.

Barbara Pfetsch is Professor of Communication and Media Policy at
the University of Hohenheim, Germany. She previously held a position
as senior researcher at the Science Center Berlin for Social Research
(WZB) and taught at the Free University of Berlin and the University of
Mannheim. She was a Fellow at the J. F. Kennedy School of Government

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