Measuring Press Freedom and Democracy: Methodologies, Uses and Impact. A Workshop
November 5th, 2007
Participants Bios
As of 10/23/07
Susan M. Abbott works as Sr. Research Coordinator at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, with Prof. Monroe Price on increasing international and comparative research and activities. Her research interests include media development and democratization of media in transitioning and developing countries. Susan has previously worked as a consultant for Central European University in Budapest, where she helped establish CEU's Center for Media and Communication Studies and at Stanhope Centre in London on various projects. Prior to her arrival at Annenberg, she was a program officer in the Media Development Division at the International Research & Exchanges Board, in Washington, DC, on the USAID-funded Serbia Professional Media Program. As an editor for Central Europe Review, she commissioned stories and worked with a variety of journalists on an award-winning online journal. Earlier in her career, as a communications officer at The Media Institute in
Washington, DC, and as a legal intern at the International Federation of Phonographic Industry in Brussels, Susan developed her interest in comparative media law and policy issues.
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Ann- Katrin Arnold
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C. Edwin Baker
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Sylvie Beauvais works with Prof. Price on increasing international and comparative research and activities. She facilitates the participation of ASC faculty and graduate students in conferences and seminars abroad, hosts visiting lecturers and foreign scholars at ASC, and serves as the administrative hub for CGCS's ongoing projects, classes, and events.
Prior to her arrival at Annenberg, she worked with the Chair of the Wharton Health Care Systems Department and completed her Masters in Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Before moving to Philadelphia, Sylvie had various editorial, communications and marketing positions with internet start-ups (including WetFeet.com) in San Francisco, financial services companies (such as J&W Seligman in New York City), and non-profits (Bar Association of the City of New York and the American Lung Association). She is French-American, and moving back and forth between the United States and France made her acutely sensitive to the differences in content and national values embedded in media. She has a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is still defining her core research interests.
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Lee B. Becker (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison) is Professor and Director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research in the Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. He has written extensively on various forms of journalism education and training, on journalistic practice, and on the journalism and mass communication labor market. His recent books include the edited volumes, The Evolution of Key Mass Communication Concepts, and Copyright and Consequences, both published by Hampton Press.
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Jeanne Bourgault serves as Internews’ Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), overseeing the operation of 23 offices and programs worldwide. Internews Network is a $25 million organization, dedicated to supporting independent media and access to information worldwide.
Prior to joining Internews, Ms. Bourgault served for six years with the U.S. Agency for International Development (1990-1996), including three years working on Latin America programs followed by three years in Moscow. While in Moscow, Ms. Bourgault managed a $250 million portfolio of democracy assistance and educational exchange programs.
From 1997-2000, Ms Bourgault served as a strategic advisor for media development programs in post-war Kosovo and as manager of community development projects in Serbia and Montenegro. She also consulted on international development to the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Triangle Institute, and the United Nations Centre for Human Rights.
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Kate Coyer is a post-doctoral research fellow with the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University (CEU). In addition to teaching at CEU during the spring term, during her fellowship, she will be conducting a comparative study of community broadcasting policies among European Union member countries, with specific focus on Central and Eastern Europe. Kate has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Goldsmiths College, University of London where she received her P.h.D. in Media and Communications in 2005. She has been producing radio and organizing media campaigns for the past twenty years and has helped build community radio stations in the US and Tanzania. Her recent publications include Handbook of Alternative Media (co-edited, forthcoming 2007), a media policy brief in Global Media and Communications, and chapters in Global Media, Global Activism, and News Inc: Corporate Media Ownership and its Threat to Democracy (co-authored with Pete Tridish). You can read her journal account of the station-building project in Tanzania at: www.prometheusradio.org/tanzania.shtml
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Tony Curzon Price
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Peter Dahlgreen
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Satarupa Dasgupta
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Michael X. Delli Carpini, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1975) and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (1980). Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in July of 2003, DeanDelli Carpini was Director of the Public Policy program of the Pew Charitable Trusts (1999-2003), and member of the Political Science Department at Barnard College and graduate faculty of Columbia University (1987-2002), serving as chair of the Barnard department from 1995 to 1999. Dean Delli Carpini began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Rutgers University (1980-1987). His research explores the role of the citizen in American politics, with particular emphasis on the impact of the mass media on public opinion, political knowledge and political participation. He is author of Stability and Change in American Politics: The Coming of Age of the Generation of the 1960s (New York University Press, 1986), What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters (Yale University Press, 1996) and A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life and the Changing American Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2006), as well as numerous articles, essays and edited volumes on political communications, public opinion and political socialization.
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Kreszentia Duer is New Business Development Leader at the World Bank Institute, and manages its technical assistance program to support policies, institutions and capacities that strengthen civic engagement, empowerment and respect for diversity in developing countries. Her nearly 30 years of development experience in diverse management and
substantive leadership roles at the World Bank spans Asia, Africa, Latin America, and parts of Eastern Europe. She is a member of the International Editorial Board of the journal, Policy Sciences, co-editor of the World Bank book, Promoting Social Cohesion Through Education (2006), and co-author of the World Bank book, Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability: A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law, and Regulation (November 2007).
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Kenneth Farrall, a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, studies the social impact of electronic network communication technologies. Ken has an ongoing research interest in the history of voting technology and the political economy of Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting systems as well as the privacy implications of Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID). In the summer of 2004, Ken served as a research fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). In the summer of 2005, he will be attending the Oxford Internet Institute in Beijing and is currently exploring the role of the Internet in events of social instability such as revolutions and terrorist attacks.
Before entering the Annenberg Ph.D. program, Ken was an Internet publishing entrepreneur and consultant focused on Internet development in China. Ken resided in China for 5 years, studying Internet use in business and the home, as well as the evolution of state Internet policy and censorship practices. Ken was quoted in major news media during this time, including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor and Salon magazine and appeared on CNN's Moneyline. Ken received a bachelor's degree in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia and a master's degree in Asian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Ken is married and has two children. Ken was born in 1965 in Schenectady, New York.
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Anna Godfrey
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Alina Hogea is a PhD student in Mass Media and Communication at Temple University, and has an MA in Media Studies (New School) and a BA in Journalism (University of Bucharest, Romania). Her previous professional experience includes working with the Government of Romania (expert for the Agency for Governmental Strategies, 2005); School of Journalism and Communication Studies, University of Bucharest (assistant professor, 2001 - 2005), and Ombudsman Department near by the Commission of Ethics and Arbitrage, Romanian Public Television (1999-2001). My research interests are social change, communication and public policy, and media ethics.
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Thomas Jacobson is Professor of Communication and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University in Philadelphia. His principal areas of research address globalization, communication for social change, participatory communication, and new information technologies. His earned doctorate in communication theory was awarded from the University of Washington in 1986. Prior to arriving at Temple he has served as Chair of the University at Buffalo’s Department of Communication and Interim Dean of its School of Informatics, in addition to being Visiting Professor at both Northwestern University and at the Cornell University summer program on development communication. Jacobson is past President of the Participatory Communication Research Section of the International
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Gordana Jankovic
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Shanti Kalathil
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Karin Karlekar
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Elihu Katz is a sociologist who has spent most of a lifetime in research on communication. His first book, co-authored in 1955 with his Columbia University mentor, Paul Lazarsfeld, was an attempt to observe the flow of influence at the intersections of mass and interpersonal communication. His subsequent work in this tradition includes studies on the diffusion of medical innovation (with James Coleman and Herbert Menzel), and on the diffusion of fluoridation among American cities (with Robert L. Crain and Donald Rosenthal). He follows the writings of the French social psychologist, Gabriel Tarde, in conceptualizing the public sphere as an arena of interaction among media, conversation, opinion and action.
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Mark Koenig
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Lauren Kogen is currently in the PhD program in Communications at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. She received a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.A. in Cinema Studies at New York University. Her area of study includes international telecommunications policy and international cultural policy. She recently completed a Fulbright grant in Barcelona through which she explored the role of new digital technologies in Spain’s policies regarding film production.
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Marwan Kraidy
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Ming Kuok
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Daoud Kuttab
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Antonio Lambino is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication. Before starting his doctoral program at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, Tony received a master in public policy degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government under the Fulbright educational exchange program. He has worked for the Global Forum for Media Development in London, UK and Amman, Jordan under the auspices of the Annenberg School's Project for Global Communication Studies. He has also worked for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, D.C., the Office of the President of the Philippines, and ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs, the largest broadcasting network in the Philippines. Tony's research interests include political communication, public diplomacy, media development, and cross-national public opinion research.
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Astrid Larson
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Oren Livio
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Victoria McColm
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Drusilla Menaker is Senior Media Advisor for IREX, a Washington, DC-based international non-profit organization specializing in strengthening media sectors, fostering civil society and improving the quality of education. In 25 years in journalism, media management and international development, Ms. Menaker has worked throughout the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. At IREX, she is responsible for assessing, conceptualizing and designing complex, multi-year responses to international media development challenges. Ms. Menaker is an advocate for media freedom as a fundamental underpinning for democratic and economic development. She also creates and delivers workshops for journalists, media managers, and civil society organizations internationally, specializing in bringing sensitive issues such as HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence and human trafficking into mainstream media coverage. In addition, Ms. Menaker is senior development advisor for IREX Europe, IREX’s partner organization with headquarters in France. Before joining IREX, Ms. Menaker was a foreign correspondent for US media, reporting from postings in Poland, South Africa, Cairo and Moscow. In the United States, she was a reporter, editor and bureau chief for The Associated Press. She received a MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Li Meng is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication and Journalism at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. Right now, as a visiting scholar, she is doing her research with the guidance of Professor Tom Jacobson in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University. Her current interested research area is media development and social change.
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Leon Morse is an internationalmedia development specialist with ten years of experience working with, and living in, developing countries.He manages the Media Sustainability Index (MSI), a tool to measure the strength and viability of any country's media sector, for IREX in Washington, DC. Leon waspart ofthe design team responsible forthe underlyingmethodology of the MSI and managingthe MSIhas afforded him the opportunity to become familiar with freedom of expression issues and the state of media development around the world,particularly in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. His other work with IREX includes managing USAID-funded media development projects in several southeast European countries, including Bosnia and Croatia. Hehas also managed USAID-funded democracy and governance projects and tsunami recovery projects in Indonesia. He received a B.A.in politics from Brandeis University and a M.A. in international affairs from George Washington University.