1. Pat Aufderheide, Professor
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016-8017
Phone: 202-885-2069
FAX: 202-885-2099
Email: paufder@american.edu
Pat Aufderheide is a professor of communication at American University and senior editor at In These Times. Her work examines the social implications of mass media, particularly the sectors which promote diversity of expression: pubic television and independent film and video. She is the editor of Beyond PC: Toward a Politics of Understanding, and the author of Telecommunications and the Public Interest: The Telecommunications Act of 1996, and The Collected Essays of Pat Aufderheide.
2. Susan Douglas, Professor
University of Michigan
2020 Frieze Bldg., 105 State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
Phone: 313-332-7999
FAX: 313-332-9250
Email: sdoug@umich.edu
Susan Douglas is a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan and media critic for The Progressive. She has written about the media for The Nation, Ms., TV Guide, The Utne Reader and In These Times, and has appeared on The Today Show, NPR's Fresh Air, and Oprah. She is the author of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922.
3. Stuart Ewen, Professor
Hunter College
CUNY, 695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 212-772-4949
FAX: 212-650-3619
Email: drstu@bway.net
Stuart Ewen is professor of media studies and chair of the department of communications at Hunter College. Stuart Ewen's most recent book is PR! A Social History of Spin. He is also the author of All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. Under the nom de guerre Archie Bischop, Ewen has worked as a photographer, pamphleteer, graphic artist, multimedia prankster, and political situationist for nearly thirty years.
4. Tom Frank, Author
PO Box 378293
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-493-0413
Email: t-frank-3@alumni.uchicago.edu
Thomas Frank is the author of The Conquest of Cool : Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism - a book about the merry dance of counterculture and advertising industry in the 1960s. He is also editor-in- chief of The Baffler magazine and the co-editor of Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler.
5. George Gerbner, Professor
Temple University
234 Golf View Rd
Ardmore, PA 19003
Phone: 610-642-3061
FAX: 610-642-3061
Email: ggerbner@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu
George Gerbner is founder and chair of the Cultural Environment Movement, Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunication at Temple University, and director of the Cultural Indicators research project in Philadelphia. Recent Cultural Indicators reports include 'Television Violence: The Power and the Peril,' 'Women and Minorities on Television' and 'Television's Mainstream: Which Way Does It Run?'
6. Todd Gitlin, Professor
New York University
239 Greene St., Room 735
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-998-5820
FAX: 212-995-4046
Email: todd.gitlin@nyu.edu
Todd Gitlin is professor of culture, journalism and sociology at New York University. He is the author of The Sixties, The Twilight Of Common Dreams, Inside Primetime, The Whole World Is Watching, and other books. He is a columnist for the New York Observer.
7. Herb Chao Gunther, President
Public Media Center
466 Green Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
Phone: 415-434-1403
FAX: 415-986-6779
Herb Chao Gunther is President and Executive Director of the Public Media Center, the nation's largest non-profit, public interest advertising agency. He has produced campaigns for Planned Parenthood, Rainforest Action network and 200 other environmental, women's and social justice organizations in the United States, Japan, the People's Republic of China, Chile, Canada, Ireland, Mexico and the Netherlands.
8. Sut Jhally, Professor
Media Education Foundation
26 Center St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Phone: 413-586-4170
FAX: 413-586-8398
Email: sutj@comm.umass.edu
http://www.igc.apc.org/mef/
Sut Jhally is professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is also the founder and executive director of The Media Education Foundation and author of The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society and co-author of Social Communication in Advertising: Persons, Products and Images of Well-Being. He has written, produced and directed numerous video productions including Dreamworlds: Gender/Sex/Power in Rock Video, Pack of Lies and Advertising and the End of the World.
9. Jean Kilbourne, Filmmaker/Lecturer
67 Temple St.
West Newton, MA 02165
Phone: 617-244-5679
FAX: 617-244-4286
Email: Jkilbourne@aol.com
http://www.jeankilbourne.com
Jean Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and images of women in advertising. Her films include Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes, Calling the Shots, and Pack of Lies.
10. Bernard McGrane, Professor
Chapman University
Orange, CA 92866
Phone: 714-997-6564
FAX: 714-532-6079
Email: mcgrane@chapman.edu
Bernard McGrane is associate professor of sociology at Chapman University and lecturer at UC Irvine. His books include The Un-TV and the 10 MPH Car: Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life and Beyond Anthropology: Society and the Other. Dr. McGrane and Harold Boihem also created the educational video, The Ad and the Id: Sex, Death, and Subliminal Advertising and he participated in creating Boihem's The Ad and the Ego.
11. Carrie McLaren, Editor/Publisher
Stay Free! 'zine
P.O. Box 306
Prince Street Station
New York, NY 10012
Phone/FAX: 718-398-9324
Email: stayfree@sunsite.unc.edu
http://sunsite.unc.edu/stayfree/index.html
Carrie McLaren edits and publishes Stay Free!, a magazine that critiques commercialism and pop culture. She also writes about advertising for the Village Voice.
12. Mark Crispin Miller, Professor
New York University
239 Greene Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-375-9726
FAX: 212-375-1300
Email: mark.miller@nyu.edu
Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of culture and communication at New York University, has written extensively on the media. He is the author of Boxed In: The Culture of TV, Seeing Through Movies and The Triumph of Illusions, as well as numerous essays and reviews for magazines. He has appeared on PBS's News Hour, CNN's Inside Politics, and other news broadcasts.
13. Alex Molnar, Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
Phone: 414-229-4592
FAX: 414-964-4209
Email: alexm@csd.uwm.edu
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CACE/
Alex Molnar is professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the director of the Center for Analysis of Commercialism in Education. He is an expert on privatization and commercial-ism in education. Molnar is widely published and is a frequent guest on television and radio programs. He is the author of Giving Kids the Business: The Commercialization of America's Schools.
14. Richard Pollay, Director
History of Advertising Archive
Faculty of Commerce
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Phone: 604-822-8338
Email: pollay@merlin.commerce.ubc.ca
Richard Pollay is a professor of advertising and marketing management at the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia. He is curator of the History of Advertising Archives at the University of British Columbia and has produced the reference book of the field, Information Sources for the History of Advertising. He is an expert in US cigarette advertising and public policy, as well as ad history.
15. Neil Postman, Professor
Dept. of Culture and Communication
New York University
239 Greene Street, Suite 735
New York, NY 10003-6674
Phone: 212-998-5274
FAX: 212-995-4046
Neil Postman is chair of New York University's Department of Culture and Communication. He served as the master of ceremonies for both the 1997 and 1998 Schmio Awards. Postman is the author of 18 books, including The Disappearance of Childhood, Conscientious Objections, and Amusing Ourselves to Death.
16. Leslie Savan, Author
583 Hamilton Road
South Orange, NJ 07079
Phone: 973-275-9890
FAX: 973-275-9891
Leslie Savan has been a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for her column about advertising and commercial culture in the Village Voice. A collection of her essays, The Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture, is published by Temple University Press. She is currently working on a book about pop language.
17. Victor Strasburger, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics
University of New Mexico - Health
Sciences Center
Ambulatory Care Center - 3 West
Albuquerque, NM 87131-5311
Phone: 505-272-0338
FAX: 505-272-6845
Email: vstras@unm.edu
Dr. Strasburger is currently Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and professor of pediatrics of family and community medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has authored over 100 articles and papers and eight books on the subject of adolescent medicine and the effects of television on children and adolescents and works closely with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
18. Makani Themba, Author
3728 Round Hill Ave, NW
Roanoke, VA 24012
Phone: 540-265-4437
FAX: 540-265-4438
Email: mthemba@igc.org
Makani Themba works with policy-makers, community-based organizations, and the media to develop environmental, public-health-oriented policies to address alcohol and other drug problems. She is co-author of two books on media advocacy and an expert on advertising aimed at African-American and Latino communities.
19. Ellen Wartella, Dean
College of Communication
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
Phone: 512-471-5646
FAX: 512-471-8500
Email: wartella@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.utexas.edu/coc/
Ellen Wartella is dean of the College of Communication and Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. She has served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission and Congressional investigations of children and television issues. Dr. Wartella is the author of nine books, including Media Making and The Audience and Its Landscape in addition to serving on the board of the Children's Television Workshop, Center for Media Education, and Better Business Bureau's Children's Advertising Review Unit.
20. Michael Wilke, Critic
Ad Age
220 E. 42nd Street
New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-210-0241
FAX: 212-210-0200
Email: Mewilke@aol.com
Michael Wilke is an expert on gay and lesbian marketing as well as their images in mainstream television advertising. He has designed a related presentation called "The Commercial Closet" that he periodically presents domestically and internationally. Wilke is a reporter for Advertising Age and has also written for Inside Media and freelanced for The New York Times, New York Newsday and the Daily News.