Displacing Place Contributing Authors

Displacing Place:
Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Sharon Kleinman

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Bryan Baldwin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, assistant to the president for communications at Bridgewater State College, and formerly an economic officer with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. He received his B.A. in political science and economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his M.A. in political communications from Emerson College.

Gene Burd is associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches news reporting and writing and does research on cities and communication. He was a journalist at the Kansas City Star, Houston Chronicle, and Albuquerque Journal, and at suburban newspapers in Los Angeles and Chicago; taught at the University of Minnesota and Marquette; attended UCLA, Iowa, and Northwestern (Ph.D., l964); was one of the last residents of Jane Addams’s Hull-House in Chicago; and is the founding benefactor of the Urban Communication Foundation.

Susan J. Drucker is professor in the Department of Journalism/Media Studies in the School of Communication at Hofstra University. She is an attorney, editor of the Free Speech Yearbook and Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, and series editor of the Communication and Law series for Hampton Press. She is the author and editor of six books and over 85 articles and book chapters, including Voices in the Street: Explorations in Gender, Media, and Public Space and two editions of Real Law @ Virtual Space: The Regulation of Cyberspace (1999, 2005) with Gary Gumpert. She is a recipient of the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for distinguished scholarship in freedom of expression. Her work examines the relationship between media technology and human factors, particularly as viewed from a legal perspective. She is treasurer of the Urban Communication Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit organization supporting research on communication and the urban condition.

Gary Gumpert is emeritus professor of communication at Queens College of the City University of New York and co-founder of Communication Landscapers, a consulting firm. His publications include: Talking Tombstones and Other Tales of the Media Age; three edited volumes of Inter/Media: Interpersonal Communication in a Media World published by Oxford University Press; Voices in the Street: Explorations in Gender, Media, and Public Space; and The Huddled Masses: Immigration and Communication. He is a frequent contributor to the International Institute of Communication publication InterMedia. His most recent book is Real Law @ Virtual Space: The Regulation of Cyberspace (2nd edition). He is a recipient of the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for distinguished scholarship in freedom of expression. He is president of the Urban Communication Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit organization supporting research on communication and the urban condition, and president of the U.S. chapter of the International Institute of Communication. His primary research focuses on the nexus of communication technology and social relationships, particularly looking at urban and suburban development, the alteration of public space, and the changing nature of community.

Jarice Hanson is professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and currently holds the Verizon Chair in Telecommunication as visiting professor in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University. Her research focuses on the social impact of digital technologies. She has published fifteen books and numerous articles on media, society, and cultural interpretations of mediated interaction.
Yvonne Houy has eclectic research interests. She earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002 by writing an interdisciplinary dissertation on advertising, politics, and film from the 1920s through the Second World War, while her most recent publication examines how urban spaces are being imaginatively and meaningfully transformed by mobile and Internet technologies. She was webmistress for the academic organization Women in German for several years, and until recently penned a regular column on online resources and Internet issues. Currently, she teaches cultural studies courses at the Honors College of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and informally researches how her toddler reacts to various communication devices while maintaining attachments to far-flung grandparents.

Harvey Jassem has written on telecommunication law and policy for over thirty years. He specializes in analyses of emerging media and the interplay of regulation and the shaping of those new media. He is executive board member of the Urban Communication Foundation and of the Fellows program of the American Council on Education, has served on multiple civic and governmental commissions, and was founding director of Loyola University Chicago’s School of Communication, Technology and Public Service, and the University of Hartford’s School of Communication, where he is presently a member of the faculty. He received his Ph.D. in communication in 1977 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Calvert Jones is a graduate student in international relations at the University of Cambridge. She holds a master’s degree from the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on the evolution of non-state actors and their technology-enabled networked power. She has conducted research for the Markle Foundation on American intelligence reorganization and with faculty at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on international cooperation against transnational threats. Her professional experiences include NGO assignments to Vietnam and the Balkans, where she worked with a transnational network in Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Croatia.

Julian Kilker is associate professor of emerging technologies at the Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He received a B.A. in physics from Reed College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in communication from Cornell University. His research focuses on the intersection of social interaction, technology, and design, particularly in relation to communication resources, with current projects examining user control and unintended consequences in emerging media and comparative life cycles in traditional and emerging media. His work has been published in numerous journals, including Management Communication Quarterly, Convergence, Iterations, and IEEE Technology and Society.
Sharon Kleinman is professor of communications at Quinnipiac University. Her research focuses on the history and social implications of communication technologies and on issues concerning online and place-based communities. She is also the editor of The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life (Peter Lang Publishing, summer 2009). She holds a B.A. in English and American literature from Brandeis University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in communication from Cornell University. An avid mountain biker, photographer, golfer, and yoga practitioner, she lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
Penny A. Leisring is associate professor of psychology at Quinnipiac University. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999. Her clinical interests focus on the prevention and reduction of aggressive behavior in adults and children. She conducts research examining male- and female-perpetrated relationship aggression, parental discipline styles, and child behavior problems.
Julie Newman is director of the Office of Sustainability at Yale University. She also worked in the field of sustainability and higher education at Tufts University and the University of New Hampshire. In 2004, she co-founded the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium, which she now chairs. This consortium was established to advance education and action for sustainable development on university campuses in the northeastern U.S. and Canadian Maritime region. Her research has focused on the role of decision making processes and organizational behavior in institutionalizing sustainability into higher education. She holds an M.S. in environmental policy from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in natural resources and environmental studies from the University of New Hampshire.
Richard Olsen is a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He teaches in the areas of rhetorical theory, popular culture, and research methods. His research centers on how various trends and artifacts of popular culture shape and reflect cultural values. He has published work on the popularity of sport utility vehicles (SUVs), the NBA draft, and MTV.
Gary Pandolfi is instructional technologist and adjunct associate professor of English at Quinnipiac University, where he supports faculty in the School of Communications and College of Liberal Arts as they use technology for teaching and learning. He has taught English to students from middle school to university for over thirty years. As an instructional designer at McGraw-Hill, he designed educational software to complement textbooks. He has written online courseware for SkillSoft Corporation as an instructional designer at Business Performance Technology. He received his B.A. from Hamilton College and M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University.
Keith J. Ruskin is professor of anesthesiology and neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine. His research interests include medical informatics and clinical applications of communication technology. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on information technology. He holds a Commercial Pilot certificate with Airplane Single- and Multi-engine ratings.
Andrew Smith is deputy Long Island editor for Newsday, the largest suburban daily newspaper in the United States. Before that, he was a reporter for twenty years at several newspapers. He has covered courts, transportation, several troubled nuclear power plants, a nuclear weapons laboratory, politics, and government. He and Earl Lane won the White House Correspondents Association award for national reporting for their series on the difficulty of nuclear waste disposal. He was part of Newsday’s coverage of the Flight 800 disaster that won the Pulitzer Prize. He also once wrote a story on deadline that rhymed, including the quotes.
Patricia Wallace is senior director of Information Technology and Distance Education at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. Her research and writing focus on the role of advanced technologies in society and human behavior. Her recent books include The Internet in the Workplace: How New Technology is Transforming Work and The Psychology of the Internet, both published by Cambridge University Press. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and also holds an M.S. in computer systems management.
Matthew Williams is lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and the independent academic advisor on e-crime to the Welsh Assembly Government. He has conducted research and published extensively in the areas of cybercrime; online and digital research methodologies and sexuality; and policing and criminal justice. He was on the board of directors for the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and is on the editorial board for Sociological Research Online and the Internet Journal of Criminology, and is book and associate editor for Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is the author of Virtually Criminal: Crime, Deviance and Regulation Online (Routledge, 2006) and numerous journal articles. His recent research includes “Ethnography for the Digital Age” (Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC] in the UK), “Methodological Issues for Qualitative Data Sharing and Archiving” (ESRC), and “Counted Out 2: A Survey of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Communities in Wales” (Welsh Development Agency and Stonewall Cymru).