Invited Speakers and Other Participants
The conference organizers are inviting a small number of featured speakers and papers to ensure that discussion addresses a broad and constructive set of issues. The sessions will be limited in size and structured to involve all participants -- academics and practitioners -- in a wide ranging discussion. The conference will begin on Wednesday, Oct 27th, 4-5 pm at the Annenberg School with an @Annenberg (webcast) session presented by Professor Anthony Giddens, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, on the topic 'Globalization and Communication'. Invited speakers include:
- Phil Agre, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies,
University of California at Los Angeles [Biography available online]
- Alan Arkatov, founder and Chairman of OnlineLearning.net (formerly The Home Education Network). Alan is an appointee of the Secretary of
Education to the National Web-based Education Commission, and
a State Commissioner for the California Post-Secondary Education
Commission (CPEC).[Biography available online]
- Walter Baer, The Rand Corporation, where he directed information
infrastructure studies for the Center for Information-Revolution
Analysis. [Biography available online]
- James Beniger, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California
- Christine Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies, Graduate School of Education and Information
Studies, UCLA
- Jim Bower, Office of Strategic Partnerships, the Getty Center [Biography available online]
- Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley [See @ Annenberg Session]
- Geoffrey Cowan, Dean and Professor, Annenberg School for Communication [Biography available online]
- Alain Dumort, Head of New Technologies in Education and Training Sector of the Director General on Education, Training and Youth at the European Commission [Biography available online]
- William Dutton, Professor at Annenberg School, North American Editor of iCS
- Nicole Ellison, PhD, Editor and Senior Producer, SurfMonkey.com, Inc. [Biography available online]
- Paul Gandel, Vice Provost, University of Rhode Island [Biography available online]
- Anthony Giddens, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science [See @ Annenberg Session]
- Nicholas Garnham, Professor, University of Westminster [Biography available online]
- John P. Gould, Ph.D., President of Cardean [Biography available online]
- Barry Hague, University of Teesside [Biography available online]
- Kenneth Hamma, Project Direcor, Getty.edu [Biography available online]
- Marty Kaplan, Associate Dean of the USC Annenberg School, where he is Director of the Center for Entertainment Studies.[Biography available online]
- Brian Loader, Editor of iCS, Professor, University of Teesside, and Director of CIRA [Biography available online]
- Margaret McLaughlin, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California [Additional information online]
- Peter Monge, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California
- Jack Nilles, applied futurist, the father of telecommuting and telework [Biography available online]
- A. Michael Noll, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, USC
- Helen Pickering, Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Teesside
- Pamela Pease, President, Jones International University [Biography coming soon]
- Patricia Riley, Professor and Director of School of Communication, The Annenberg School, USC
- John A. Silvester, Professor and Vice Provost for Scholarly Technology, USC, and Chair, Corporation for Educational Network Initiatives[Biography available online]
- Edward L. Schneider, Professor and Dean of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USC
- Majid Tehranian, Professor of Communication at the University of Hawaii
and Director of the
Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research.
- William G. Tierney, Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and Director, Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, Rossier School of Education, USC
- Jan Tonnenmacher, Katholic Universitaet Eichstaett
- Tracy Westen, Director, Institute for Governmental Studies, and adjunct Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Walter Wolf, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California
Those competitively selected to present papers and new research include:
- Lecia J. Barker, leader of the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society (ATLAS)
group in the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Campus
Technology at the University of Colorado.
- David Bogen, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for
Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. [Biography available online]
- Alfred Bork, Professor Emeritus of Information and Computer Science and Physics, at the University of California, Irvine and founder and Director of the Educational Technology Center. [Biography available online]
- Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Associate Dean at the College of the Extended University, California State Polytechnic University [Biography available online]
- Sandra Braman, The Reese Phifer Professor, Department of Telecommunications and Film,University of Alabama
- James Cornford, Senior Research Associate based in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at University of Newcastle, UK. [Biography available online]
- Holly Crawford, Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information
Science, and Fellow, Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University. [Biography available online]
- Charles Crook, Reader in Psychology, Department of Human Sciences,
Loughborough University, UK [Biography available online]
- Leigh Estabrook, Dean and Professor of School of Library and
Information Science, Professor of Sociology, University of
Illinois. [Biography available online]
- Gordon Freedman, Consultant for University & Publisher Relations, Hungry Minds [Biography available online]
- Noriko Hara, a research associate in Instructional Systems Technology at
Indiana University. [Biography available online]
[A recent story on distance education by the New York Times features the case study conducted by Dr. Kling and Noriko Hara]
- Martin Harris, Brunel University, presenting a review of virtual university initiatives in the UK,
entitled 'The Virtual Campus'. [Biography available online]
- Trevor Haywood, Emeritus Professor of Human Information Systems, University
of Central England in Birmingham, UK. [Biography available online]
- Michele Jackson, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and the Interdisciplinary
Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado, Boulder.[Biography available online]
- Sally Jackson, Professor of Communication and Faculty Associate for Distributed
Learning, University of Arizona. [Biography available online]
- Rob Kling, Professor of Information Science and Information Systems, at Indiana
University, where he directs the Center for Social Informatics. [Biography available online] [A recent story on distance education by the New York Times features a case study conducted by Dr. Kling and Noriko Hara]
- Stephen D. McDowell, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Florida
State University, Tallahassee. [Biography available online]
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- Matt Moynahan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Reciprocal Publishing. [Biography available online]
- Sylvia Sensiper, Multimedia Producer, Harvard Business School, 'Making the Case Online'[Biography available online]
- Russell Stockard, Assistant Professor, Communication Arts Department, School of Business,
California Luthern University, Thousand Oaks, California. [Biography available online]
- Tamara Sumner, co-founder and co-editor of The Journal of Interactive
Media in Education is at the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design at the
University of Colorado at Boulder. [Biography available online]
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