Bound by Power
ContributorsROBERT BERTUZZI is an MA candidate in the Department of Communication Studies and Social Justice at the University of Windsor, Ontario. His interest in the East Asian financial crisis is both personal and professional, having lived in Japan in 1998 during the height of the crisis. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of King's College in Halifax.
JEAN CHEN is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, and holds a MA in Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research interests include theory, political-economy, media, human rights, gender, and social inequality. She is co-editor, with Jeffery Klaehn, of the forthcoming Women Across Borders.
TERESA CHEN is a Human Resources Management specialist. Her research interests include organizational development and international labor law. She has participated in a number of initiatives aimed at improving the working conditions and well being of workers within the private sector. She enjoys travel and oragami.
DAVID CROMWELL is an oceanographer, writer, and author of Private Planet: Corporate Plunder and the Fight Back. Together with David Edwards, he is co-editor of Media Lens, a UK-based media-watch project, and co-author of the forthcoming Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media (2006). His articles have been published in numerous magazines including: the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times, and the Herald.
PETER EGLIN is Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo where he teaches courses in Human Rights, Ethnomethodology, Theory and Practice, and the Sociology of Crime. He was, as well, Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universitat Konstanz, 1980-1981, and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle- upon-Tyne Polytechnic, 1985-1987. He is the author of Talk and Taxonomy: A Methodological Comparison of Ethnosemantics and Ethnomethodology (1980), and co-author, with Stephen Hester, of The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis and A Sociology of Crime (1992), and co-editor of Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis (1997). He is currently working a book on intellectual responsibility.
ROBERT EVERTON (1952-2004) taught extensively in both Communication Studies and Latin American Studies since first instructing at Simon Fraser University in 1992. As well as an academic, he was a social and political activist for over two decades. Involved in the efforts to demand government accountability to its citizenry, he participated widely in citizen efforts to make the so-called free trade agreements both transparent and accountable.
ROBERT JENSEN teaches media law, ethics, and politics at the University of Texas. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist and continues to write for the popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. He is also involved with a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world. Jensen is author of Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (2001).
JEFFERY KLAEHN's work has been published in a wide range of scholarly journals, including the European Journal of Communication, Gazette: The International Journal for Communication Studies, Portuguese Studies Review, Cultural Dynamics, Journalism Studies, and the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. He is the editor of Filtering the News: Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model (2005) and of the forthcoming Comic Books and Comic Book Culture: Studies in Popular Culture (2006).
VALERIE SCATAMBURLO-D'ANNIBALE is an award-winning educator (recipient of the 2001-2002 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Award) who teaches at the University of Windsor. Her first book, Soldiers of Misfortune: The New Right's Culture War and the Politics of Political Correctness (1998), received the American Educational Studies Association's 2000 Critics Choice Award. Her work on social and cultural theory and critical pedagogy has been published in Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, the Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory and in books including the Dictionary of Cultural Theorists; Alienation, Ethnicity and Postmodernism; and Bringing Capitalism Back for Critique by Social Theory. She is a contributor to Filtering the News: Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model (2005).
JAMES WINTER is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Windsor and the author of numerous books, including Common Cents: Media Portrayal of the Gulf War and Other Events (1992), Democracy's Oxygen: How the Corporations Control the News (1997), MediaThink (2000), and, the forthcoming, Lies the Media Tell Us (2006). He is also a contributor to Radical Mass Media Criticism (2005) and to Filtering the News: Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model (2005).