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J. Kwabena
Asamoah-Gyadu did postgraduate studies in religion at the
University of Ghana and holds a PhD in Theology from the University
of
Birmingham, UK. He is lecturer in the Study of Religion;
Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology; and Theology, Media and Culture at
the
Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana. Dr. Asamoah-Gyadu has been
elected to serve as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study
of
World Religions, Harvard University (2004). His works include: ' "Blowing
the Cover": Religious Functionaries in African Films", Legon
Journal of
Humanities (2003); and African Charismatics (Leiden: E.J. Brill,
forthcoming). He is currently researching into the appropriation of
modern
media technologies by Pentecostal/charismatic movements in West Africa
focusing on the handbills, posters, and banners, through which they
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Lynn Schofield Clark Ph. D. is Assistant Research Professor on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado. She is Director of theTeens and the New Media @ Home research project, which focuses on issues of the access, use, and meaning of new media technologies among low-income communities, with special attention to young people. A former television producer and marketing professional who has spent years as a volunteer with young people, Clark is author of "From Angels to Aliens: Teens, the Media, and Beliefs in the Supernatural" (forthcoming in Fall 2003) and co-editor of "Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Readings on Media, Religion and Culture" (Columbia University Press, forthcoming in 2001). She was a 1997-98 Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellow and a 1998 nominee to the Harvard Society of Fellows, and currently serves as the Secretary to the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, and her research has been cited in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Hollywood Reporter, and BBC Radio.
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Roberto S. Goizueta Ph. D. is Professor, Department of Theology, Boston College. Among his books is Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment, 1995. He edited We Are a People: Initiatives in Hispanic American Theology in 1992 and co-edited with María Pilar Aquino the forthcoming Theology from the Borders. His interest in theological thought and praxis prompted his paper, "Bernard Lonergan and Liberation Theology," presented at the 1988 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and "The Cultural Context of Catholic Theological Education" presented at the Conference on Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition in 1995. He was a Founding member and served as President of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology.
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Juan Carlos Henríquez is
Research Professor in the Department of
Communications of the Universidad Iberoamericana in México City,
where he
teaches Communication Theories and Communication and Cultural Problematic.
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Mary Elizabeth
Hess Ph. D. is
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Luther Seminary, an
ELCA seminary in St. Paul, MN. She
is a Roman Catholic layperson whose research focuses on the challenges
posed to religious education within media culture contexts. She is a
member of the executive committee of the Association of Professors and
Researchers in Religious Education, and on the editorial board of the
journal Religious Education. Her recent publications include: “Practicing
attention in media culture,” in Mediating Religion: Conversations
in Media, Religion and Culture, edited by Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia
Marriage, T&T Clark/Continuum, 2003; “Marriage on TV,” Word&World, |
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Stewart Hoover Ph. D. is Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, USA. He is Adjoint Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and in the Program in American Studies. He was the Director of the Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture held January 11-14, 1996 which was the second international conference on the topic and the first public one. The conference attracted 220 participants and has been called a major watershed in the development of scholarship in the field. His books include Mass Media Religion: The Social Sources of the Electronic Church, 1988, Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture co-editor with Knut Lundby, 1997, and the forthcoming Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse.
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Peter Horsfield Ph.D. teaches and is the manager of research projects within the MA program at the School of Applied Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has published widely in the area of Christian uses of media and the social and theological impact of media developments. His earlier work, Religious Television: The American Experience, published in 1984, is recognised as one of the early classics in studies on televangelism. From 1987-1996 he was Dean of the Uniting Church Theological Hall and Lecturer in Practical Theology in the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne. From 1997-1999 he headed the Electronic Culture Research Project at the Commission for Mission of the Uniting Church in Victoria. He was the founding editor of the national journal Australian Ministry for five years and has been chair of the board of the Christian Television Association in Victoria. In 1987 he established and continues to moderate the email discussion list on Media, Culture and Religious Faith.
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Adán M. Medrano is a video and web site producer and President of JM Communications in Houston, Texas, USA. Among his recent productions are a five-part video series, "El Catecismo de La Iglesia Católica" (The Catechism of the Catholic Church), 1996, which uses documentary format to explore traditional religious experiences, and "Soul of the City" 1997, a thirty-minute documentary about the role of public ritual in urban Catholic parishes. For the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, he installed a website which includes RealAudio and photography to show the human face of farmworker health, education, and labor issues. He provides consultation to philanthropic and other agencies in the field of religious communication. He has served as President of the Association of Catholic TV and Radio Syndicators in the US and founded the International Latino Film Festival, San Antonio CinéFestival, and the weekly "Nuestra Familia" television series.
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Dr. Jolyon Mitchell is
Senior Lecturer in Communication, Theology and Ethics and Director of
The Media and Theology Project at the University of Edinburgh. Prior
to teaching, he worked as a producer and journalist for BBC World Service
and BBC Radio 4. Recent productions included Garrison Keillorís Radio
Preachers (Radio 4 and BBC World Service) and Images of Faith (BBC Radio
4). His research interest is centred around the evolving relationship
amongst media, religion and culture; the theological contribution to
Media
Ethics and Media Literacy; the craft of homiletics (preaching) in a media-saturated
culture; the history of Christian and Religious Communication and the
implications for theology of the rapid convergence of communication technologies.
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David Morgan Ph. D. Chair of the Study Commission, is Duesenberg Professor in Christianity and the Arts and Professor of Humanities and Art History at Valparaiso University (Indiana). He has held fellowships from the Getty Grant Program, the American Antiquarian Society, the National Endowment for Humanities, and the Pew Program in Religion and American History at Yale University. Morgan edited and contributed to a volume of essays, Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman, (Yale, 1996), and has authored three books--Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images (California, 1998), Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production (Oxford, 1999), and The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice (California, 2005). Professor Morgan co-edits Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, published by Berg (Oxford). He also co-edits a book series at Routledge entitled “Media & Religion,”with Stewart Hoover and Jolyon Mitchell. |
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Fabio PASQUALETTI is
a professor at the Faculty of Science of Social Communication at the Pontifical
Salesian University in Rome. He teaches
Radio Production, Music and Communication, and Participatory Communication.
He has a Bachelor in Philosophy 1986 and Theology 1989 (Pontifical Salesian
University) a Laurea in Pedagogy 1986 (State University of Parma) and a
Master in Telecommunication 1994 (Michigan State University). His master
thesis was on Radio drama and Hypermedia, he wrote different articles on
rock music and youth, particularly focusing on the pedagogical dimension
of music. He is analyzing the implications of digital culture and the perception
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Frances Forde Plude Ph.D. is Professor of communications at Notre Dame College, Cleveland, Ohio. She completed doctoral studies in telecommunications and public policy at Harvard University and MIT and has taught at Syracuse University, John Carroll University and Emerson College. She has served as consultant to the US Congress, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the telecommunications ministers of the European Union. Her work in conceptualizing the new field of Communications Theology has led to publications and seminars in this field. She is a co-author of the Longman book, Communications Ethics and Global Change.
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Germán Rey is Professor in the Department of Communications of the Pontifical Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia and also Vice President of the Fundación Social. He is a regular presenter at the Latin American "Creators of Christian Images" seminars. He has been advisor to the Ministry of Communications of Colombia and is a regular media columnist in the daily newspaper, "El Tiempo." He has also been an expert of the Department of Communications of CELAM (Latin American Council of Catholic Bishops). He is co-author of three books " La Imagen Nuestra de Cada Día", "La Realidad Imaginada" and "Imagens da América Latina" (Sao Paulo) dealing with church ministry and video culture in Latin America. His other books include: "Las Industrias Culturales" (México) and "Escenografías Para el Diálogo" (Lima). He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal, "Revista de Estudios Sociales" and is director of the book series, "Conversaciones."
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Ms Siriwan Santisakultarm holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a Master’s degree in social welfare from the Thammasart University of Thailand. She has 15 years of working experience as a TV producer for children’s programming and also as a TV news reporter on the nationwide wide Thai TV Channel 9. While working as a TV reporter, she specialized in children’s and women’s stories and on social issues that emphasized social concern for human values, peace and justice. A number of her broadcasting productions received awards both nationally and internationally. In 1990 she was recognized by the department of National Youth Bureau under the office of Prime Minister as the first and best report for children stories in Thailand. In November, 2001 she received the Agnellus Andrew Award, an award for life-time achievement in the field of Catholic communications. She is currently the President of Signis-Asia. She serves on the Bishop’s Conference of the Catholic church of Thailand in the Department of Social Communication.
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Robert A. White Ph. D. is Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication of the Gregorian University, Rome, Italy. He is editor of the book series, Communication and Human Values and Chairman of the Publications Committee of the International Association for Mass Communication Research. He was Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Communications and Culture in London throughout the 80's and in the early 1970's was Associate, the Institute of Socio-Economic Studies in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He is a member of the Society of Jesus. He initiated the book series in Latin America, "Comunicación" and is Series Editor of "Communication, Culture and Theology" published by Sheed and Ward. In 1992, in "Communicatio Socialis," he wrote "Twenty Years of Evolution in the Church's Thinking about Communication."
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