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Contributors

assistant director of the American Journalism Center in Budapest. He is
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authorofGlobalCommunicationinthe21 CenturyandCommunication,
Development, and the Third World – The Global Politics of Information
and coeditor of Foreign News and the New World Information Order.He
was associate editor of Journalism Quarterly and president of the regional
Southern Association for Public Opinion Research.

David L. Swanson is Associate Provost and Professor of Speech Com-
munication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. His research concerns the social effects of mass commu-
nication, with particular attention to the role of media in politics. His
scholarlyworkonthesesubjectshasappearedinvariousjournalsandvol-
umes in the United States, Europe, and Asia and includes “The Uses and
Gratifications Approach to Mass Communication,” “New Directions in
Political Communication” (with D. Nimmo), and “Politics, Media, and
Modern Democracy” (with P. Mancini).

Werner Wirth is Professor of Empirical Communications at the Uni-
versity of Zurich, Switzerland. He previously taught as Professor of
NewMedia and Online Communication at the University of Munich,
Germany. He has edited three books and published numerous book
chapters and journal articles in different areas, including media exposure
and media effects research, infotainment, online research, and empirical
methods.

Thomas Zittel is John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de
Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Cam-
bridge. He studied political science and German and holds an M.A. from
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and a Ph.D. from the University of
Mannheim, Germany. From 1990 to 2001, he was assistant professor at
the University of Mannheim; from 1996 to 1997 he was Congressional
Fellow of the American Political Science Association. His current re-
search deals with the impact of computer networks on democracy. He
has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on this topic
and directs a research project on parliaments, representative democracy,
and new digital media.

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