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Richard Ostrom graduated from Stanford University (B.A. in social science) and
The Claremont Graduate School (Ph.D. in international relations), spent a year in
Singapore on a Fulbright Scholarship and two years in Indonesia at the Joint
Embassy School, and is a professor of political science at California State University,
Chico.
B. R. Smith is a Professor in the Broadcast and Cinematic Arts Department of
Central Michigan University. His research interests include broadcast and cinema
history and criticism.
Janez Strehovec received his Ph.D. from University of Ljubljana in 1988 in
Aesthetics. He is currently a researcher on the project Theories o f Cyberculture
supported by the Slovenian Ministry of Science and Technology. He is the author
of five books in the field of cultural studies and aesthetics published in Slovenia.
His books include Technoculture, The Culture o f Techno (1998) dealing with the
issue of techno not just as a lifestyle issue and music movement but as a crucial
principle of recent artificial realities. He has also written for journals such as Journal
o f P opula r Culture and C Theoty and has presented his papers at various international
conferences in Europe and USA.
E-mail: [email protected]
Arnold S. Wolfe is associate professor of communication at Illinois State University.
He has published articles on television and film semiotics in Critical Studies in M ass
Communication, on theories of mass media audiences in P opular Music a nd Society
and in the Jou rna l o f Communication Inquity, an attempt to encourage a more media
literate grasp of Doors’ music.
Susan Brown Zahn received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of
Texas at Austin. Currently designing e-courses for Human Kinetics, she enjoys
creating crafts with kits from M artha by Mail.