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Resource Faculty Resource faculty were selected on the basis of their expertise and experience in the field of media studies and their ability to achieve the goals of the program. Academics with knowledge of the media theory research models and the new media literacy concepts that will be presented at the program were chosen to lead the individual seminars. Christine Demkowych (more info)was selected as a Fulbright Scholar in 2008 and spent the fall semester teaching in Ukraine at Zaporizhia National University. She was an Adjunct Professor of journalism at Towson University and has taught media and nationality policy courses related to the former Soviet Union at Johns Hopkins University. She founded and ran for nine years Ukraine's first independent English-language news service, IntelNews. She was a Kyiv-based analyst for CBS Radio and a correspondent for the New York Times. In 1989 she was Moscow correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. She has conducted USAID-funded seminars on Media and Publishing for representatives of the Ukrainian press in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is the principal investigator and U.S. Project Director of the three-year Media Literacy program in the CIS that is part of a grant being funded by ReSET-HESP. Michael Gurevitch served as a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jersusalem and the Open University in England. He joined the Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 1983. He is the author and editor of nine books as wells as numerous journal articles and book chapters. His book, "The Crisis of Public Communication", based on his work and his long ¨Ctime colleague Jay Blumer, was published in 1996. Gurevitch has participated in two cross-national comparative studies of the globalization of television news, the first published under the title "Global Newsrooms, Local Audiences" and the second titled "News of the World" which examines audience reception of television news in different countries. In 1995, he was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant, and spent the spring 1996 semester at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at Stockholm University in Sweden. In 2005 he was awarded, jointly with Jay Blumer, the Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award by the Political Communication Science Section of the American Political Science Association. Serhiy Kvit is a Professor of Journalism at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technologies. His research focuses on Mass Communications, journalism education and hermeneutics. He was a founder of the Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism Department. He is also the President of the Media Reform Center and is a member of the National Commission for the Development of Freedom of Speech. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2006 at Ohio University. Ellen Mickiewicz, a Professor of Political Science at Duke University (USA), is an expert on the role of television and democratization in the former Soviet Union. She is Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center at Duke, which is dedicated to encouraging open and responsible media policies and practices in the world. She also directs the Commission on Radio and Television Policy, founded by President Jimmy Carter to encourage more democratic media policies around the world. She is the author of Changing Channels, a study of the role and impact of television from the end of the Soviet Union through the election of the first post-Soviet Russian Federation president, from 1985-1996. She was the first American to be honored by the 12,000 member Journalist's Union of Russia for her contribution to the development of democratic media in the region. Philip Napoli is Associate Professor of Communications and Media Management in the Graduate School of Business Administration at Fordham University (USA). His research focuses on media institutions and media policy. He is the author of Foundations of Communications Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media and Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace. He research has been published in journals such as Telecommunications Policy, the Policy Studies Journal, the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, and the Journal of Communication. His research has received funding from the National Association of Broadcasters, the National Association of Television Programming Executives and the Benton Foundation. Sarah Oates is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics Department at the University of Glasgow. She specializes in the comparative study of media and politics. Her most recent project examines the framing of terrorist threat in U.S., British and Russian elections. Other work has included projects on television, political parties and democratization in Russia. She is the author of Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia (Routledge, 2006) and the lead editor of The Internet and Politics: Citizens, Voters and Activists (Routledge, 2005). She has written articles, papers and book chapters on topics ranging from the problem of journalism as a profession in the former Soviet Union to election news in the United States. At the University of Glasgow, she designed and now coordinates the MSc program in Political Communication. Borys Potyatynyk is Professor of Journalism at Lviv Franko National University in Ukraine and was the Dean of the Journalism Department in 1996. He is the Director of the Media Ecology Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the Media Criticism Journal. He was an ACTR/ACCELS grant recipient in 1994 and was a Fulbright Scholar in 1999. He is the author of Totalitarian Journalism, Pathogenic Text, Ecology of Noosphere and Media: Keys to Understanding. Katerina Tsetsura is Assistant Professor of Public Relations at the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma. She has authored and co-authored multiple book chapters, studies and conference papers and presentations. Dr. Tsetsura is one of the two leading researchers in the landpark project "The International Index of Bribery in the Media" that is supported by the Institute of Public Relations (USA), the International Public Relations Association and the International Press Institute. She was one of the keynote speakers at the International Public Relations Conference "PR Forum" in Poland. She has guest lectured in Moscow, Ulan-Ude, Kyiv, Dubai and Warsaw. Elena Vartanova is Professor, PhD and D.Sc. in Journalism and Mass Media and is the Chair in Media Theory and Economics at the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University, where she is also the deputy dean of research. Her research interests include the influence of new technologies on established media structures, the digital divide, media economics and comparison of media systems in Russia, Nordic countries, Great Britain and the United States. She has published four monographs in Russian and has edited six English-language books, including the first Russian-language textbook on media economics. She is the author of more than 100 articles in Russian and English. Her most recent book, 'Encyclopedia of World Media Industries' (Moscow 2006), won the best university book of the year award at the all-Russian book competition. |
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