Yahya R. Kamalipour - Global Communication: A Multicultural Perspective

George A. Barnett (PhD, Michigan State University) is a distinguished professor emeritus of communication at the University of California, Davis. He has written extensively on organizational, mass, international and intercultural, and political communication, as well as on the diffusion of innovations. His current research focuses on international information networks, in general; telecommunications flows, including the Internet and the World Wide Web, in specific; and their role in social and economic development and globalization.

Vibert C. Cambridge (PhD, Ohio University) is professor emeritus in the School of Media Arts and Studies, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University. Cambridges teaching, research, and scholarship have focused on communication for development and social change; entertainment-education and mass media programming; immigration, diversity, and broadcasting; and Guyanese social and cultural history. His Musical Life in Guyana: History and Politics of Control was published in June 2015 as part of its Caribbean Studies Series. Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States, 19902001 was published January 2005. In 2016, Cambridge was awarded Guyanas fourth-highest national award, the Golden Arrow of Achievement, for his contributions to the study of Guyanas social and cultural history. In 2013, he received the Award for Excellence in Global Engagement from Ohio University. Cambridges current work focuses on diasporas and the emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). He is a member of the executive board of the Guyana Cultural Association of New York Inc.

Jane Campbell (PhD, Northern Illinois University) is a professor of English at Purdue University Northwest. She is the author of Mythic Black Fiction: The Transformation of History (1986). Her literary criticism has appeared in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters; Obsidian; Black Women in America; African American Writers; The Oxford Companion to Womens Writing in the U.S.; the Dictionary of Literary Biography; the Heath Anthology of American Literature; Belles Letters; and U.S. Media and the Middle East: Image and Perception. Along with Theresa Carilli, she has coedited Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives (2005); a special issue on women and the media for the Global Media Journal; Challenging Images of Women in the Media: Reinventing Womens Lives (2012); Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives (2013); and Locating Queerness in the Media (2017). She is a coeditor for the Lexington Books series Media, Culture, and the Arts. She received her BA from the University of Arkansas and her MA and PhD from Northern Illinois University.

Theresa Carilli (PhD, Southern Illinois University) is a professor of communication at Purdue University Northwest. Her areas of concentration include media studies, performance studies, and playwriting. As a coeditor, she has published five anthologies that address media depictions of marginalized groups: Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media (with Yahya Kamalipour, 1998); Women and the Media: Diverse Perspectives (with Jane Campbell, 2005); Challenging Images of Women in the Media (with Jane Campbell, 2012); Queer Media Images (with Jane Campbell, 2013); and Locating Queerness in the Media (with Jane Campbell, 2017). She coedited a special issue of women and the media for the online Global Media Journal with Jane Campbell in 2006. Currently she is coeditor of the Lexington Books series Media, Culture, and the Arts. As a playwright, Carilli has published two books of plays (Familial Circles [2000], and Women as Lovers [1996]). She edited a special theater issue of the journal Voices in Italian Americana (1998). Her plays have been produced in San Francisco; San Diego; Victoria, B.C.; Melbourne, Australia; Athens, Greece; and, most recently, New York City. In addition to her book Scripting Identity: Writing Cultural Experience (2008), which features student scripts, Carilli has published numerous performance articles and creative scripts. She received her PhD from Southern Illinois University and her MA and BA from the University of Connecticut.

Benjamin A. Davis (MA, Columbia University) is an assistant professor of broadcast and digital journalism at California State University, Northridge, in Los Angeles. Ben served on the launch team for MSNBC.com as an interactive producer/editor. He was the Washington editor for NPR and a former executive producer for NPRs Special Projects department. He also served on the assignment desk for ABC News in New York. He was a CBS reporter at WBTV News in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1992 he was a University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellow in Journalism. Ben has won numerous awards for journalism, including two Alfred I. DuPont awards for broadcast. He created a writing model that replaces the analog-based inverted pyramid, called the digital media pyramid, about which he wrote an e-book: The Digital Media Pyramid: A Guide for 21st Century Bloggers, Reporters and Citizen Journalists. He graduated from Whittier College and Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Journalism and studied international relations at the University of Copenhagen.

John D. H. Downing (PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science) is professor emeritus and founding director of the Global Media Research Center at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He writes on international communication; radical alternative media and social movements; and ethnicity, racism, and media. He teaches African and Latin American cinemas, media in Russia, and media theory.

Mike Friedrichsen (PhD, Free University) is founding president of the Berlin University of Digital Sciences in Berlin and full professor of media economics and media innovation at the Stuttgart Media University. He studied business administration, political economics, communication sciences, and political sciences in Kiel, Mainz, San Diego, Canterbury, and Berlin. He earned his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 1996 at the Institute of Empirical Market and Communication Research. His main research interests are digital economy, data sciences, media management and media economics, empirical research, new media technologies, and business informatics. He emphasizes transfer between the university and economy, leads several networking organizations, and is a supervisory board member in various enterprises and organizations. He is research director at the Global Institute for Digital Transformation (GIDT) and the Institute of Media Business (IMB). He is author and editor of several books and has also published in different journals, and he is editor of several book series and journals.

Richard A. Gershon (PhD, Ohio University) is a professor and codirector of the Telecommunications and Information Management program at Western Michigan University, where he teaches courses in media management and telecommunications. Gershon has twice been selected for national teaching honors, including the Steven H. Coltrin Professor of the Year Award by the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) and the Barry Sherman Award for Teaching Excellence by the Management and Economics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). In 2007, he was the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at Western Michigan University. Gershon is an internationally recognized scholar, having authored 7 books and over 50 journal articles and book chapters. His most recent works include Digital Media and Innovation (2017) as well as Media, Telecommunications and Business Strategy