Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Nasya Bahfen is a lecturer in journalism at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a reporter with Radio Australia. Her research interests include Islam and the media, the use of the internet in Malaysia and other Southeast Asian Islamic societies, and diaspora Muslim communities in the West. Her PhD was recently submitted at the University of Technology Sydney, and took a comparative look at the use of the Internet by Muslim tertiary students in Southeast Asia and Australia.

Wei Che is an Associate Professor in the Department of Graduate English, School of Foreign Languages Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan (wei.chen@whut.edu.cn).

Daniel Cunliffe is a Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Computing and leads the Computing and Minority Languages Group within the Faculty of Advanced Technology at the University of Glamorgan. The CaML Group has been investigating aspects of the relationship between minority languages and Information Technology since 2000. Areas of current research include: minority language communities online; designing websites for bilingual users; the language behaviour of bilingual users in online environments; and e-activism for minority languages. He has published on a variety of topics relating to the use of the Welsh language online. Recent publications have included "Minority Languages and the Internet: New Threats, New Opportunities" in Minority Language Media: Concepts, Critiques and Case Studies edited by Mike Cormack and Niamh Hourigan (Multilingual Matters, 2007).

Urmila Goel is a post-doctoral researcher in social and cultural anthropology based in Berlin, Germany specialising on the experiences of people marked as South Asians in Germany. She has just completed the research project "The virtual second generation" about the negotiation of ethnic identities in virtual spaces at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and has been a visiting researcher at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia and the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research interests cover in particular strategies of dealing with experiences of racism and the interdependency of racism and heteronormativity. More information can be found on http://www.urmila.de.

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communication and Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communication, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is author of Cell Phone Culture (2006) and Digital Disability (2003, with Christopher Newell), as well as editor of Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media (2008, with Larissa Hjorth), Internationalizing Internet Studies (with Mark McLelland), Mobile Phone Cultures (2007), and Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004). Gerard is editor of the journal Media International Australia.

Nanette Gottlieb is ARC Professorial Fellow in the Japan Program, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Her recent work includes Japanese Cybercultures (2003, with Mark McLelland) and Language and Society in Japan (2005).

Eugene Gorny was born in Novosibirsk, USSR. In 1991, he graduated from the University of Tartu, Estonia, with the equivalent of an M.A. in Russian philology and library science. From 1996-1998 he was Editor-in-chief of Zhurnal.ru. From 1998-2000 he worked for Russkij Zhurnal (russ.ru), where he edited the Net Culture section. He has also participated in a number of online literary projects, such as Setrevaja Slovesnost (netslova.ru), the Russian Virtual Library (rvb.ru), and the Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore (feb-web.ru). The title of his Ph.D. thesis (Goldsmith College, University of London, 2006) is "A Creative History of the Russian Internet."

Ljiljana Gavrilovic is at Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. Her research interests include: traditional social organization of the Balkans societies and its applications in a contemporary society, especially in relation to common law, family, social stratification, identity, relationships of global-family/group-individual, costume, systems of meanings and indicators of social stratification in traditional communities. She has a special focus on adaptations of the refugees from the 1991-1995 wars. Ljiljana also has an interest in contemporary popular culture, especially science fiction and Internet.

Terri He currently serves as a visiting scholar at Institute of Ethnography in Academia Sinica, Taiwan, while she is also a last-year PhD student at University of York, United Kingdom. Her research on politics of dissident sexuality in contemporary Taiwan explores the relations between nationalism, ethnicity, sexuality, and the ways some sexual dissidents constitute an online community. Her work brings together studies and critiques of cyberculture, postcolonialist and feminist theorizing of nation and nationalism, and gay, lesbian and queer studies.

Larissa Hjorth is a researcher and artist lecturing in Media Cultures in the Games and Digital Art program at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Over the last five years, Hjorth has been researching and publishing on gendered customizing of mobile communication and virtual communities in the Asia–Pacific. Hjorth has published widely on the topic in journals such as Journal of Intercultural Studies, Convergence journal, Fibreculture Journal and Southern Review. Hjorth has been the recipient of an Australia Council Tokyo studio, Asialink Seoul residency, Akiyoshidai International Village Residency as well as receiving grants for cross-cultural art projects from Besen Foundation, Australia Council new media fund, Asialink-Japan Foundation, Pola Foundation and Noruma Foundation. Hjorth has a forthcoming monograph, The art of being mobile: gendered customisation in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge).

Kun Huang is an assistant professor at Government Department at New Mexico State University (kunhuang@nmsu.edu). He is interested in the study of collaboration between government, nonprofit and business organizations, particularly in health care.

Gholam Khiabany is in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University. He is author of Blogestan:The Internet and Politics in Iran (2008; with Annabelle Sreberny) and Iranian Media and the Paradox of Modernity: Media, Religion and State since 1979 (2008).

Pamela Tremain Koch is an adjunct faculty member at Seidman College of Business of Grand Valley State University. She is interested in issues at the intersection of work, technology and society and her research primarily focuses on China and East Asia.

Randolph Kluver is Director of the Institute for Pacific Asia and a Research Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Dr. Kluver has been on the faculty of universities in the United States, Singapore, and China, and has published over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and is the author, editor, or co-editor of four books. Dr. Kluver’s current research interests include the role of the Internet in Asian societies, Asian political communication, globalization, and the political and social impact of information technologies.

Bradley J. Koch is an Assistant Professor of Management at Seidman College of Business of Grand Valley State University (kochb@gvsu.edu). His research focuses on the rapidly changing cognitive institutional environment in China and its impact on management logics as well as joint venture strategies in Sichuan Province.

Pamela T. Koch is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communicatio