About > Editorial Board
The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor Ingrid Volkmer is Deputy Director of the Media and Communications program, University of Melbourne, Australia. She is also Chair of the Philosophy of Communication Division, International Communication Association. Ingrid is Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia Globalization [sic] (London: Routledge, 2007) and is on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Communication (Annenberg/ USC), Global Media and Communication (London: Sage), War, Media and Conflict (London: Sage) and The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill). Ingrid is particularly interested in the new worldwide media infrastructure of political communication and the impact on societies and cultures. She has published widely in the field of global communication, and is currently working on a book manuscript The Global Public Sphere for Polity Press, Cambridge.
Professor Sean Cubitt is Director of the Media and Communications Program, University of Melbourne, Australia. Sean is on the international advisory board of Contemporary Cinema (Rodopi book series) as well as the editorial boards of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Sage, refereed), Public (York University, Canada; refereed), Vectors (Annenberg Centre, University of Southern California; Online, refereed), ::fibreculture:: journal (Online, refereed), Cultural Politics (Berg, refereed), International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (Intellect, refereed), New Review of Film and Television Studies (Routledge, refereed), Visual Communication (Sage, refereed), Time and Society (Sage, refereed), Futures. (Elsevier, refereed), International Journal of Cultural Studies (Sage, refereed), Third Text (Taylor & Francis, refereed), and 4 Camerawork (Independent). Sean was also on the editorial board of Screen (SEFT/Oxford University Press, refereed) from 1984-89. He is a member of the Digital Review Panel, Leonardo (MIT Press, refereed). Sean is interested in the history and philosophy of media, media ethics, media democracy, genealogies of media technology, as well as urban screens.
Jenny Lee was previously coordinator of the graduate Publishing and Communications program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne since the beginning of 2003. Her research interests include the history of books and reading, and technological and cultural change in the contemporary publishing industry. She is Deputy Chair of the OL Society, which publishes Overland magazine. Jenny became an editor by accident in 1982, when she began working on a multi-author critical history of Australia (A People's History of Australia, 4 vols, 1988). She edited the literary and cultural quarterly Meanjin from 1987 to 1994, then spent six years working as a freelance book editor. Drawing on her experience in editing and publishing, she taught in the Professional Writing program at Deakin University from 2000 to 2002.
Young Scholars Network, ECREA
Tamara Witschge is a research associate at the Media and Communications Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is working on the Leverhulme Trust funded project 'Spaces of News'. This project aims to explore the ways in which technological, economic and social change is reconfiguring news journalism and shaping the dynamics of the public sphere and public culture. Tamara obtained her PhD degree from the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, University of Amsterdam in May 2007. Her PhD thesis '(In)difference Online' focused on online discussions of contested issues. Through the study of the online discourse on the issue of immigration in the Netherlands she gained insight into issues of equality, diversity, and the openness of the public sphere in plural societies. Tamara is the Secretary of the Board of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Chair of the Young Scholars' network of ECREA and a member of the editorial board of the international journal New Media and Society.
Benjamin De Cleen is a PhD student working at the Communication Studies Department of the VUB-Free University of Brussels. His main interests are discourse theory and the relationship between populist politics and culture. His research deals with the Flemish populist extreme right party Vlaams Belang's discourse on culture. Benjamin is Vice-Chair of the Student Affairs Committee of the International Communication Association and a member of the ICA Student Affairs Committee.
Emerging Scholars Network, IAMCR
Stefania Milan is a PhD Candidate at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Her dissertation, entitled "Stealing the Fire. A study of emancipatory practices in the field of communication", looks at transnational social networks of grassroots developers of communication infrastructures, and their interactions with the policy environment. Cases include community low-power radio stations and radical tech collectives. Her research interests include media and communications policy; social movements as policy stakeholders; participatory approaches to policy and governance; Internet governance; theory and practice of community/alternative media; communication and ICTs for development and social change. Stefania is also a freelance journalist, and has been working for numerous alternative and independent outlets, including radios, and the international news agency Inter Press Service. Stefania serves as co-chair of the Emerging Scholars Network of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
Student Board, ICA
Mikaela L. Marlow completed her doctoral research at the University of California at Santa Barbara and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Communication Studies at the University of Idaho. Her inquiry explores theoretical and applied intergroup communication among diverse language, ethnic, and cultural collectives. Recent work has appeared in Communication Yearbook, Human Communication Research, and Journal of Multicultural Discourses. She recently completed a 2-year term as the Student Board Representative for the Executive Committee of the International Communication Association.
Michele Cheng Hoon Khoo is a PhD student at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her area of interest is in media images and social and economic construction of masculine identity in Asia. Michele obtained her Bachelor degree from the National University of Singapore majoring in English and Sociology. She was conferred a Master of Mass Communication by the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2004 and has 10 years of industry experience in corporate communications and event management before joining SCI as a full-time student. Michele is Student Board Member of the International Communication Association.
ANZCA
Diana Bossio has recently completed her PhD in Applied Communications at RMIT University, Australia. Her thesis, "State of Insecurity: Representations of post-September 11 insecurity by Australian governmental authorities and newspaper media" explored power relations between Australian government and media to develop and maintain discourses about post-September 11 insecurity. She teaches journalism and professional communication at Swinburne University in Melbourne, where she also researches contemporary media and government relations, journalistic authority and journalism education. Diana is also the graduate representative for the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.
