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List of Contributors

Francisco J. Ricardo, Ph.D. is Research Associate in the
University Professors Program and codirector of the Digital Video Research
Archive at Boston University, and teaches critical theory at the Rhode Island
School of Design. His work investigates historical and conceptual
intersections between new media and contemporary art.

Sheizaf Rafaeli, Ph.D. (http://sheizaf.rafaeli.net) is director of
INFOSOC - Center for the Study of the Information Society and Professor -
Graduate School of Management (Business Administration) University of
Haifa, Israel.

Tsahi Hayat (http://com.haifa.ac.il) is a graduate student at the
Department of Communication, University of Haifa, Israel.

Yaron Ariel (http://yaronariel.com) is a doctoral student at the
Graduate School of Management, University of Haifa, Israel.

Mahmoud Eid, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Department
of Communication, University of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) and the editor of
Global Media Journal – Canadian Edition. His professional expertise,
teaching experience, research interests, and publications concentrate on
international communication, media studies, communication research
methods, terrorism, crisis management and conflict resolution, modernity,
and the political economy of communication.

Rita Zaltsman, Ph.D. is currently working at the GFL (German as a
Foreign Language) Project at the Catholic Education Center in Reutlingen,
Germany. She is also publishing articles and taking part in German and
international conferences. Her main research interests include
psycholinguistics, web-based discourse analysis, cross-cultural e-learning,
and intercultural conflicts in e-learning communities.

Nicole Ridgway is an interdisciplinary scholar whose most recent
publications, ‘Of the Between - Thinking the (Im)Mediate,’ and ‘In Excess of
the Already Constituted: Interaction as Performance,’ explore the intersection
of philosophy and art. She currently works in the MSc Programme in
Multimedia at Trinity College Dublin.