About > Editorial Board
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.
