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146 Popular Culture Review 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.