Researchers
| | My academic interests lie where the grand narratives and global issues cross path with concrete, situated praxis. At the moment I am e.g. studying how the global challenge of digital divides in the network-information-knowledge society is being countered with local empowerment and developmental initiatives. I am theoretically inspired by Science, Technology, Society studies [link:www.stscenter.dk], anthropology, and philosophy.
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| | My research has particularly focused upon the media of social movements across the planet, especially those concerned with one or other aspect of social justice. I have also focused on issues of racism, ethnicity and media; war and media; and global corporate media developments. I was founding Director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University, USA, and was elected Vice-President of the International Association for Media & Communication Research (2008-2012) My graduate level teaching has been on advanced media and cultural theories; political cinemas of the global South; and globalization, culture and media.
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| My research interests include media sociology, radio history, community media, and the new digital platforms for radio production, distribution and reception. Within the research area of community communication I have published several journal articles and reports about media policy issues, mainly in the capacity of advisor to the Danish and to the Norwegian Ministries of Culture, as well as studies of political communication through community and local media. From 2007-2010 I was Chair of the Community Communication Section in IAMCR. |
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| | My primary research interest is Internet Policy and Regulation. I have been involved in Internet Governance since 1997 and in 2004 appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). Since 2005 Special Adviser to the Chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Co-founder Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET), Chair of the Faculty of the Internet Governance Summer School (SSIG). |
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| | My PhD research project is titled: ‘Political Campaign Communication in Transitional Democracies: The Cameroonian Experience in a Global Perspective.’ Overall, the project aims to empirically ascertain the constitutive features of political campaign communication in Cameroon, the media use patterns of political parties and political parties’ communication-based strategies to adapt to the changed and changing electoral environment in Cameroon.
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| | My main research interest is on the interrelationship between media and democratization processes in transitional countries in Global South and Post-Communist countries from Mongolia and Nepal in Asia to Albania and Modova in the Balkans. My research focuses on media policy, media institutions, rights issues, and media representation. Other areas of research interest focus on the interrelationship between media and ICTs and processes of cultural and social change. Concurrently, I am consulting media projects in Global South. From 2004 to 2007 I was director of the National Research School in Media, Communication, and Journalism.
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| | My PhD research project is titled Citizenry Negotiation by means of Radio in Rural Nepal and the overall objective of my research is to study poor and marginalised people’s aspirations and how these affect negotiation of citizenry by the influence of radio in rural Nepal. Based on fieldwork in Nepal, the project examines radio from the perspective of poor and marginalised people and focus on the consequences for them to become active citizens in a context of major socio-political changes. I have worked number of years as a practitioner with local radio and development in Nepal and Latin America.
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