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PHIL
AGRE • ANITA ALLEN • LISA
NAKAMURA • SHEIZAF RAFAELI •
BARBARA WARNICK
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PHIL
AGRE
Philip E. Agre is an associate professor of information studies
at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT
in 1989, having conducted dissertation research in the Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory on computational models of improvised
activities. Before arriving at UCLA he taught at the University
of Sussex and UC San Diego, and has been a visiting professor
at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris. He
is the author of "Computation and Human Experience" (Cambridge
University Press, 1997), and the coeditor of "Technology and
Privacy: The New Landscape" (with Marc Rotenberg, MIT Press,
1997), "Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical
Studies in Computing as a Social Practice" (with Douglas Schuler,
Ablex, 1997), and "Computational Theories of Interaction and
Agency" (with Stanley J. Rosenschein, MIT Press, 1996).
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| His current research concerns the role of emerging information
technologies ininstitutional change; applications include privacy
policy and the networked university. He edits an Internet mailing
list called The
Red Rock Eater News Service that distributes useful information
on the social and political aspects of networking and computing
to 5000 people in 60 countries. |
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ANITA
ALLEN
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Anita L.Allen is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University
of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Privacy Law, Bioethics
and Jurisprudence, and is an advisor to the Center for Bioethics.She
earned her law degree from Harvard and her Ph.D. in Philosophy
from the University of Michigan. She briefly practiced law
at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. Professor Allen
was Associate Dean for Research at the Georgetown University
Law Center in Washington, D.C., and Chair of Board of Planned
Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. She is currently on
the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law
Schools. She was a member of the National Advisory Committee
on Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health,
and has served on an Institute of Medicine Committee studying
the Role of Women in Clinical Trials. Professor Allen has
written many articles on a range of topics, including genetic
privacy, medical confidentiality, abortion rights, surrogate
parenting, and AIDS. Currently at work on three books, she
is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and co-editor
of books that include "Uneasy Access: Privacy For Women
in a Free Society" (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988); "Privacy
Law" (with R. Turkington, West Publish. Co., 1999); and"
Debating Democracy's Discontent" (with M. Regan, eds.,
Oxford University Press, 1998). She lectures at colleges and
Universities throughout the United States, and will be Visiting
Professor of Law at Yale this fall. She resides in Haverford,
Pennsylvania with husband Paul Castellitto and their two children.
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LISA
NAKAMURA
Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of English at Sonoma
State University, where she teaches Postcolonial Literature
and Theory. Her book Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
on the Internet is forthcoming from Routledge in the Spring
of 2002. She co-edited Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000)
and her work appears in "The Cybercultures Reader,"
"Race in Cyberspace," "Unspun: Key Terms for
the World Wide Web," and "The Visual Studies Reader."
Her research focuses on the ways that Internet user interfaces
enforce menu-driven racial identities upon users, as well
as cross-racial role playing and identity tourism or "passing"
in online social spaces. She is also interested in the ways
that contemporary films such as Blade Runner and The
Matrix depict race in relation to technology and the Internet.Several
of Nakamura's papers are available online, including: "Race
In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on
the Internet," "Keeping
it (Virtually) Real: The Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object
of Knowledge," and "After/Images
of Identity: Gender, Technology, and Identity Politics."
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SHEIZAF
RAFAELI
Sheizaf Rafaeli
(B.A., Haifa University, M.A. Ohio State University, M.A., Ph.D.,
Stanford University) is head of the Center
for the Study of the Information Society and a professor
at the Graduate School of
Business Administration, University of Haifa Israel. Previously,
he has been head of the Information Systems area at the GSB
in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, since 1986. His interests
are in computers as media: interactivity, the subjective value
of information, information sharing, and virtual publics. He
has published on these topic in journals such as Behavior and
Information Technology, Communication Research, Computers and
the Social Sciences, Computers and Human Behaviour, Journal
of Communication, Information andSoftware Technology, and the
Journal of Broadcasting.
| Sheizaf is also active in practicing what
he preaches: He has been involved in building internet-based
activities such as online higher-education, journalism,
political, governmental, social and economic virtual organizations
and efforts. He authored software and books on graphics,
electronic spreadsheets and statistical analysis, and information
systems (see, e.g. http://gsob.haifa.ac.il
) . He is co-editor, along with Fay Sudweeks and Margaret
McLaughlin, of "Network
and NetPlay: Virtual Groups on the Internet," published
by MIT Press, 1998. Rafaeli served as co-coordinator of
ProjectH. In the early days of the web, Sheizaf was involved
in setting up the earliest daily and monthly online newspapers.
He co-founded The Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication, and is proud of
having initiated, set up and run the Citizen's
Advice Board online welfare and civic society information
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Sheizaf has served in visiting research and teaching positions
at Ohio State University, Michigan State University, IBM, Stanford
University, Technion, Israeli College of Management, and the
University of Michigan. Over the past twenty years he has taught
courses on computers as media, and the social implications of
new communication technologies, as well as numerous Information
Systems' courses.
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BARBARA
WARNICK
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Barbara Warnick received her Ph.D from the University
of Michigan and now teaches in the Speech
Communication Department at the University of Washington.
She is a former department chair and also former editor
of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, published by the
National Communication Association. Her research has
focused on rhetorical theory and criticism and argumentation.
Since the mid 1990s, she has focused on the study of
rhetorical action on the Internet and the World Wide
Web. Her recent work has included studies of ways critical
theory can be adapted to the analysis of texts in new
media environments in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (1998)
and Rhetoric
Review (2001). She has also written on the rhetorical
features of hypertext in The
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Her critical work includes
studies of political parody and discourse inviting women
on line in Critical Studies in Mass Communication in
1998 and 1999. She has just completed a book, "Critical
Literacy in a Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and
the Public Interest," to be published by Erlbaum
in 2002. This book includes studies of Wired magazine,
cybergrrl discourse, and political parody in the 2000
Presidential campaign. At the University of Washington,
she teaches courses in New Media Criticism and Public
Discourse on the Internet. She plans to extend her work
on the study of texts to consider the phenomenon of
intertextuality on the World Wide Web.
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