Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Ethan Zuckerman is Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He is the co-founder of the international citizen media community Global Voices and previously founded Geekcorps, a voluntary organization that supported technology projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

Heba Zayyan is a Palestinian working woman and a mother. She holds an MBA from the Islamic University in Gaza and a BA in English Literature from the University of Jordan. She has been working in civil society organizations in Gaza for about seven years and is now working for an international organization that supports gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Chang Woo Young is a Professor in the Department of International Administration at the Catholic University of Daegu, Korea. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Konkuk University. Recent publications include articles in Korea Observer, the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, and Korea Journal.

Jason Wilson is a Research Associate in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He has written and published internationally on citizen journalism, video games, and mobile media. Recently he has been closely involved in two major ARC-funded citizen journalism initiatives, Youdecide2007 and Qlddecides, which covered two Australian elections.

Melissa Wall is Associate Professor of Journalism at California State University, Northridge. A former journalist, she has also reported for Seattle’s homeless newspaper, advised a Los Angeles student-radio project affiliated with Pacifica, taught journalism in Ethiopia, and studied township publications in Zimbabwe. Her research, focusing on international news as well as new media, has been published in journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Journalism, New Media & Society, Gazette, and Journalism Studies.

Farida Vis is an ESRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), a research collaboration between Manchester University and the Open University. Her work is concerned with the reporting of global crisis, threat, and security, with a particular interest in visual mediatizations. She is currently involved in a research project with the National Centre for e-Social Science to further develop methods for analyzing media texts.

Sarah Vieweg is a doctoral student in the Technology, Media and Society interdisciplinary program in the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and also holds an MA in Linguistics. She works as a research assistant in Palen’s ConnectivIT lab and has published in human computer interaction research communities. She studies online help through an ethnomethodological lens, with a focus on large-scale emergency situations.

Jeannette Sutton is a sociologist who specializes in collective behavior in hazards and disasters. She works as a Research Coordinator at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She conducts research on warnings and risk communication, disaster preparedness and response, and the uses of information and communication technology in disaster.

Annabelle Sreberny is Professor of Global Media and Communications and Director of the Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK. She is also President of the international Association for Media and Communications Research. She has been researching issues on Iranian media and gender for over 30 years and is co-authoring a book with Gholam Khiabany on Iranian blogging, Blogestan, for IB Tauris.

Prasun Sonwalkar teaches at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. A former journalist, he worked on The Times of India, Business Standard, and the Press Trust of India and was Head of News of the Zee News channel. His research has been published in edited collections and journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Gazette, Contemporary South Asia, and Critique: A Review of Indian Journalism.