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Yaman Akdeniz is a PhD candidate at the CyberLaw Research Unit, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds. His thesis concerns The Governance of the Internet in Europe and he has published widely on legal issues and the regulation of the Internet. He is also the founder and director of Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties (UK) (http://www.cyber-rights.org), a non-profit making civil liberties organisation set up in January 1997.
Stephen Coleman is Director of Studies at The Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government (see www.hansard-society.org.uk) and heads its Parliament and the Electronic Media programme. He lectures on Media and Citizenship at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Recent publications include Parliament in the Age of the Internet, edited with J. Taylor and W. van de Donk, OUP, 1999; Electronic Media, Parliament and the People: Making Democracy Visible, Hansard Society, 1999, and Televised Election Debates, Macmillan, 1999.
Richard Davis is Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, Utah, USA. He is the author of The Web of Politics: The Internets Impact on the American Political System, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, and co-author (with Diane Owen) of New Media and American Politics, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Rachel Gibson is a Lecturer in Politics at the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford and visiting research fellow at the School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 19992001. She is currently involved in a number of research projects examining the impact of the Internet on politics, in particular, European political parties (with Stephen Ward). Other publications have included work on anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe and power distribution within political parties.
Paul G. Nixon is European project co-ordinator for CIRA, and a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics and Policy, at the University of Teesside. He has published a number of pieces on both political organisations usage of ICTs and policy related issues in Europe including:
Transparency through Technology: A Comparative Study of Political Parties and their Use of the Internet (with Hans Johansson) in B. Hague and B. Loader (eds), Digital Democracy Routledge, 1999, and Government and ICTs, in V. Kotrakou (ed), The Government of the European Union, by to be published in 2000 by Macmillan.
Janie Percy-Smith is Principal Lecturer at the Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan University where she is involved in a wide range of research relating to local governance and citizenship, urban policy and social exclusion. She is the co-author of Local Governance in Britain, (2000, Macmillan); editor of From Exclusion to Inclusion. Policy responses to social exclusion (2000, Open University Press); and editor of Needs Assessments in Public Policy (1996, Open University Press
Jenny Pickerill is currently completing her doctoral thesis in the Department of Geography at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Her main areas of interest lie in the use of computer-mediated communication by groups to facilitate their political activities and in the study of the environmental protest movement, both within the UK and world-wide. Other research that she has been involved in includes a project examining the perceptions and use of e-commerce at Lancaster University.
Clive Walker is Professor of the Faculty of Law and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds. He is the author of many articles in the fields of criminal justice, constitutional law and politics and media law. His recent book titles include works on failures in the justice system, Miscarriages of Justice: A Review of Justice in Error, Blackstone Press, 1999, and the impact of the Internet on court process, Crime, Criminal Justice and the Internet, Sweet & Maxwell, 1999.
Stephen Ward is a Lecturer in Politics, at the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford. His research interests include environmental politics and policy-making and politics and the new media. His recent publications include British Environmental Politics and Europe:Politics and Policy in Transition, edited with Philip Lowe, Routledge, 1998, as well as a number of articles with Rachel Gibson on political parties and the Internet.
Mark Wheeler is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics and Modern History, London Guildhall University. He is the author of Politics and the Mass Media, Blackwell, 1998, and has published articles in research journals such as Democratisation and Convergence concerning the impact of new ICTs on democratic practices and political communication. He is also a researcher for the British Screen Advisory Council.
