Remi Brulin
In France, Remi earned a degree in business from a "Grande Ecole," a English Teacher's Degree (CAPES), and an MA from La Sorbonne. His thesis dealt with George H.W. Bush and the US Discourse on Free Trade, 1989 to 1993. He conducted research at Brown University for two summers and is currently writing his PhD dissertation for La Sorbonne, and has been doing research at NYU on this project for 5 years.
Remi studies the American discourse on terrorism since 1945 and how The New York Times covered this issue. In the process, he asks and attempts to answer the following questions (and more):
Mary Flanagan
Mary Flanagan is an artist in New York City, Associate Professor of Software Art and Culture at Hunter College, and leads the tiltfactor research group. Flanagan's artwork has been shown internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and the Guggenheim. She is currently conducting research with Helen Nissenbaum.
Becky Lentz
Becky was most recently The Ford Foundation’s first program officer for media policy and technology from 2001 to 2007. She joined the Foundation with experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors, state and city government where she developed software, designed and implemented multilingual public information campaigns and directed strategic planning, evaluation, and policy analysis projects related to information technology. During her tenure at Ford, Becky's portfolio contributed nearly $20 million to the field of media reform and justice. NYU's Values in Technology Design: Democracy, Autonomy and Justice Project was among the numerous programs she supported. She also funded research examining the role of communications and media studies scholarship in public policy formation, among numerous other topics. Additional grants supported issue advocacy on media diversity and representation, corporate influence on federal regulation, media consolidation, electronic privacy, community radio, and Internet governance. Becky was instrumental in the evolution of Ford's new international directions on issues of intellectual property and freedom of expression.
Her research interests include critical perspectives on the culture of communications regulation; technology and society; the role of philanthropy in the field of information, communication, and technology (ICT) policy; theory-building that advances a human rights framework for media regulation; and civil society engagement in global governance of ICT policies. She has published in such journals as The Information Society, Telecommunications Policy, and Info on rural telecommunications and economic development, scholarship in the information policy field, and on critique of digital divide policy discourse.
Becky serves on the international Advisory Boards of the Social Science Research Council’s Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere Program, the Civil Society Practitioners Program at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Freedom of Expression Project based in London.
Vered Malka
Vered has taught mass media and communication courses at several universities among them Boston College, Boston University, and currently NYU. She was a full-time faculty member in the School of Communication at Sapir Academic College for the three years prior to relocation to the US. Vered also worked as an adjunct professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in several other academic institutions. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the internet as a new work-tool for American political reporters. She intends to do future research on the internet as a new medium of political communication.
Vered earned her BA in political science, journalism and communication and her MA in political communication at Hebrew University. Her MA thesis looked at the Netanyahu government and its relationship with the Israeli media in light of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. She is interested in the role of the news media in the diplomatic-political arena in times of war, terror, and peace. Publications include: “Internet and Political Culture”, Panim (30), January, 2005 (In Hebrew) and “The Internet as a New Work Tool for American Political reporters: Influences, Trends and Assessments,” paper presented at the 7th ISCA conference, Bar Ilan University, April, 2003.
Søren Mørk Petersen
Søren holds a Master of Arts in Culture and Communication from the University of Southern Denmark. He is a PhD candidate at the IT-University of Copenhagen. His PhD project is about social software as a cultural formation with specific focus on moblogging. He is particular interested in the visual documentation of everyday life and the city. He has published in international journals. Besides researching and teaching he is involved in different media happenings in Denmark and has worked as a consultant for different organizations and businesses.
In France, Remi earned a degree in business from a "Grande Ecole," a English Teacher's Degree (CAPES), and an MA from La Sorbonne. His thesis dealt with George H.W. Bush and the US Discourse on Free Trade, 1989 to 1993. He conducted research at Brown University for two summers and is currently writing his PhD dissertation for La Sorbonne, and has been doing research at NYU on this project for 5 years.
Remi studies the American discourse on terrorism since 1945 and how The New York Times covered this issue. In the process, he asks and attempts to answer the following questions (and more):
- What is meant by the idea that "the US opposes terrorism?"
- Who is "the US?"
- What is "terrorism?"
- Is there a single, unique definition of "terrorism" accepted throughout the "US government?"
- At any given time, is there a single definition inside the Executive branch?
- Inside the Legislative branch?
- What definition of "terrorism" has the US proposed and defended at the UN?
- How has the NYT covered this issue of the definition of "terrorism," before and since 9/11?
Mary Flanagan
Mary Flanagan is an artist in New York City, Associate Professor of Software Art and Culture at Hunter College, and leads the tiltfactor research group. Flanagan's artwork has been shown internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and the Guggenheim. She is currently conducting research with Helen Nissenbaum.
Becky Lentz
Becky was most recently The Ford Foundation’s first program officer for media policy and technology from 2001 to 2007. She joined the Foundation with experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors, state and city government where she developed software, designed and implemented multilingual public information campaigns and directed strategic planning, evaluation, and policy analysis projects related to information technology. During her tenure at Ford, Becky's portfolio contributed nearly $20 million to the field of media reform and justice. NYU's Values in Technology Design: Democracy, Autonomy and Justice Project was among the numerous programs she supported. She also funded research examining the role of communications and media studies scholarship in public policy formation, among numerous other topics. Additional grants supported issue advocacy on media diversity and representation, corporate influence on federal regulation, media consolidation, electronic privacy, community radio, and Internet governance. Becky was instrumental in the evolution of Ford's new international directions on issues of intellectual property and freedom of expression.
Her research interests include critical perspectives on the culture of communications regulation; technology and society; the role of philanthropy in the field of information, communication, and technology (ICT) policy; theory-building that advances a human rights framework for media regulation; and civil society engagement in global governance of ICT policies. She has published in such journals as The Information Society, Telecommunications Policy, and Info on rural telecommunications and economic development, scholarship in the information policy field, and on critique of digital divide policy discourse.
Becky serves on the international Advisory Boards of the Social Science Research Council’s Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere Program, the Civil Society Practitioners Program at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Freedom of Expression Project based in London.
Vered Malka
Vered has taught mass media and communication courses at several universities among them Boston College, Boston University, and currently NYU. She was a full-time faculty member in the School of Communication at Sapir Academic College for the three years prior to relocation to the US. Vered also worked as an adjunct professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in several other academic institutions. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the internet as a new work-tool for American political reporters. She intends to do future research on the internet as a new medium of political communication.
Vered earned her BA in political science, journalism and communication and her MA in political communication at Hebrew University. Her MA thesis looked at the Netanyahu government and its relationship with the Israeli media in light of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. She is interested in the role of the news media in the diplomatic-political arena in times of war, terror, and peace. Publications include: “Internet and Political Culture”, Panim (30), January, 2005 (In Hebrew) and “The Internet as a New Work Tool for American Political reporters: Influences, Trends and Assessments,” paper presented at the 7th ISCA conference, Bar Ilan University, April, 2003.
Søren Mørk Petersen
Søren holds a Master of Arts in Culture and Communication from the University of Southern Denmark. He is a PhD candidate at the IT-University of Copenhagen. His PhD project is about social software as a cultural formation with specific focus on moblogging. He is particular interested in the visual documentation of everyday life and the city. He has published in international journals. Besides researching and teaching he is involved in different media happenings in Denmark and has worked as a consultant for different organizations and businesses.