Advisory Board

Submitted by admin on 8 October, 2006 - 17:04.

Matthew Fuller, Goldsmith's College, University of London

Matthew Fuller is David Gee Reader in Digital Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture (MIT Press, 2005) and Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software.

Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester

Dr. Rachel Gibson is a Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Social Change (ISC), University of Manchester. She Joined the ISC in December 2007 having held previous appointments as Professor of New Media Studies at the University of Leicester, Senior Research Fello in the ACSPRI Center for Social Research (ACSR) in the Research Scool of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Lecturer in politics at the University of Salford. She completed her PhD thesis on the rise of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe in the late 20th century at Texas A&M University, USA. She has held visiting research and teaching positions at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), the Department of Politics at the UNiversity of Durham and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She has been a Principal Investigator on the Australian Electiopn Study (AES) and the Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) and a series of Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Australian Research Council (ARC) funded projects dealing with impact of the new media on politics. She sits on the editorial boards of a number of international political science and new media journals including the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Information Polity and Australian Journal of Political Science and regular peer reviews for funding bodies including the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy. Her current research interests cover a range of new media and elections-related topics including political parties and citizen participation, the professionalisation of political campaigning, Web linakage analysis and methodologies to map online political networks.She is currently Principal Investigator on a three year ESRC Professional Fellowship project examining the Internet, Electoral Politics and Citizen Participation in Global Perspective. This is a four nation study (U.S., UK, Australia and France) that examines the changes to parties and candidates use of new media in election campaigns, looking particularly at the extent to which they are offering new opportunities for citizens to participate in the campaigns process.

Philip N. Howard, University of Washington

Philip N. Howard (BA Toronto, MSc London School of Economics, PhD Northwestern) is an associate professor in the Communication Department at the University of Washington. His book New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) is about the role of information technology in campaign strategy and political culture. He has published a co-edited collection entitled Society Online: The Internet In Context (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003) as well as articles in New Media & Society, the American Behavioral Scientist, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Howard has been a Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington, D.C., and the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London.

Steve Jones, University of Illinois Chicago

Steve Jones has been Internetworking since 1979 when he was using and co-authoring educational materials on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (His first computer experience was with a PDP 8/e.) He received his Ph.D. in Communication from the Institute of Communications Research there in 1987, and is author of numerous books, including Society Online, Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety, Virtual Culture, and Pop Music and the Press. He is editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of New Media and co-founder and co-editor of New Media & Society. A social historian of communication technology, his books have earned him critical acclaim and interviews for stories in Time, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsweek and numerous other newspapers and magazines. He has also been interviewed on radio and TV, and has been a guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" and "Sounds Like Science." Jones serves as Senior Research Fellow for the Pew Internet & American Life Project and is co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers, serving as its president from 1999 to 2003.

Dr Jussi Parikka is media theorist, writer and Reader in Media & Design at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton). Parikka has a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland and in addition, he is Adjunct Professor (“docent”) of Digital Culture Theory at the University of Turku, Finland. In addition, he is a Senior Fellow at the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media.

Parikka’s books include Koneoppi, (2004, in Finnish) and Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (2007) and Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology (2010). His edited and co-edited books include The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture, Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, Implications (2011) and Medianatures: The Materiality of Information Technology and Electronic Waste (2011). His next book, What is Media Archaeology?, is forthcoming in Spring 2012 from Polity Press. Blog: http://www.jussiparikka.net.