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THE AUTHORS

JOHAN FORNÄS is Professor at the Department of Culture and Society at Campus
Norrköping of Linköping University, where he is also Director of the national centre
for interdisciplinary cultural research called the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute
of Sweden (ACSIS). His background is in musicology, and media and communica-
tion studies, and he has done extensive research on popular music, youth culture and
media culture. He has also published widely in English, with articles in journals like
Black Renaissance; Convergence; Cultural Studies; European Journal of Cultural Studies;
New Formations; Nordicom-Review; Popular Music; Popular Music and Society; Social
Science Information; Theory, Culture and Society; and Young: Nordic Journal of Youth
Research. His nearly thirty published books and anthologies include Moves in
Modernity (A&W International, 1992), Cultural Theory and Late Modernity (Sage,
1995), Youth Culture in Late Modernity (Sage, 1995), In Garageland: Rock, Youth and
Modernity (Routledge, 1995), and Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and
Interactivity on the Internet (Peter Lang, 2002).

KARIN BECKER is Professor at the Department of Culture and Society, Campus
Norrköping of Linköping University, and the Department of Journalism, Media and
Communication, Stockholm University. She began her career in the mass communi-
cation and journalism programs at Indiana University and the University of Iowa,
specializing in documentary photography and photojournalism, and moved to
Sweden in the mid 1980s. She has also worked as Professor at the National College
of Art, Craft and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm. Her research focuses on cultural
histories and contemporary contexts of visual media practices, in the press, in
museums, in private settings and in ethnographic research. Her English publications
include Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition (Louisiana State University
Press, 1980), The Strip: An American Place (University of Nebraska Press, 1985) and
Picturing Politics. Visual and Textual Formations of Modernity in the Swedish Press
(JMK/Stockholm University, 2000), as well as numerous journal articles and
anthology contributions.

ERLING BJURSTRÖM is Professor at the Department of Culture and Society,
Campus Norrköping of Linköping University. He has a background in sociology, and