Pieter Aquilia is Associate Professor of Media and Design at the University of New South Wales Singapore campus. She is the co-author of The Media in Singapore and the Region, co-editor of International Television Drama, and a number of publications on television in Australasia.

Tom Carlson is research director at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. A political scientist, he is interested in political communication and has published in various journals, including Press/Politics, European Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Political Marketing.

Endre Dányi is a research fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University, and scholar-in-residence at the London-based Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research. His research focuses on political uses of various communication technologies; recent publications include “Xerox Project: Photocopy Machines as a Metaphor for an Open Society,” The Information Society, Vol. 22(2).

Meghan Dougherty is a doctoral candidate in Communication at the University of Washington and a researcher for WebArchivist.org. Her work is focused on understanding the dynamics of knowledge production in mediated environments, and particularly the use of digital media in the research, preservation, representation and interpretation of cultural heritage.

Kirsten Foot is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on the reciprocal relationship between information/communication technologies and society. As co-director of the WebArchivist.org research group, she is developing new techniques for studying social and political action on the Web. With Steve Schneider, she has recently published Web Campaigning (MIT Press, 2006).

Martin Gregor is in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, in the Czech Republic. He works mainly in the field of public economics, with recent contributions in The Review of Political Economy and Journal of European Integration.

Carlo Hagemann is Associate Professor of Communication at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His research interests include political communication, computer mediated communication, and content analysis.

Shahiraa Sahul Hameed was formerly Research Associate at the Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where she conducted this research. She currently works at the Singapore Corporation for Rehabilitative Enterprises (SCORE) where she works with the aim of helping ex-offenders reintegrate into society.

Anna Galácz is a PhD student at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, researcher at the Center for Information Society and Network Research (ITHAKA), and project coordinator of the Hungarian section of the World Internet Project. Her research focuses on the effects of new media on political behavior and institutions.

Nicholas W. Jankowski is Associate Professor at Radboud University and Visiting Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio in the Netherlands. He has been involved in the study of new media and research methodology since the mid-1970s, and is the initiator and co-editor of the journal New Media & Society.

Hyo Kim is Assistant Professor at Ajou University in South Korea. His interests include communication technologies, organizational communication, and mediated communication. His work has appeared in Science Communication and Annals of Telecommunications.

Randolph Kluver is Director of the Institute for Pacific Asia and Research Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. His work focuses on communication, new media, and politics in Asia. He is the co-editor of Asia.com: Asia Encounters the Internet (RoutledgeCurzon).

Kate Mirandilla is a doctoral student in public relations at the University of South Australia, majoring in organizational crisis management and previously was an assistant professor in communication research and mass communication. Her research interests are in public relations, organizational communication, e-governance, and the new media.

Tanja Oblak is Assistant Professor at the Department for Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include the social and democratic implications of new technologies, comparison of traditional and online media, communication culture within electronic public sphere, online social interactions, and uses of interactive online media.

Han Woo Park is Assistant Professor at YeungNam University in South Korea. His research on the use of new digital technologies in extending social networks has contributed to development of a new research field, Hyperlink Network Analysis, and his research has appeared in several international journals, including New Media & Society and the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Steven M. Schneider is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York Institute of Technology. He is also the co-Director of WebArchivist.org and co-Editor of PoliticalWeb.info. His research focuses on the use of the Internet for political action. With Kirsten Foot, he has recently published Web Campaigning (MIT Press, 2006).

Kavitha Shetty is an independent writer, researcher, editor based in Singapore. She holds a Masters in Mass Communication from Bowling Green State University, Ohio. She has worked as a journalist in India and her research interests include Indian Politics, Children and Online Media, and Culture and Communication in India.

Kim Strandberg is a doctoral student at the Åbo Akademi University, Finland. His research focuses on different aspects of political life on the Internet, particularly the ways that political parties and candidates use the Web.

Shyam Tekwani is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has nearly two decades experience as a reporter and photojournalist. His works have appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Le Figaro, Geo and Der Spiegel. His current work focuses on the use of the media, particularly new media technologies, by terrorist groups in their violent campaigns.

Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki is a PhD Candidate at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her Ph.D. focuses on how Japanese political parties and candidates are utilizing the Web during election campaign periods.

Renée van Os is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her PhD project focuses on the potential of the internet for enhancing the European democratic process and contributing to a European public sphere.

Gerrit Voerman is Director of the Documentation Centre on Dutch Political Parties of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is editor of the Yearbook of the Documentation Centre and has published frequently on Dutch political parties and the use of Information and Communication Technologies by political parties.

Janelle Ward is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests include young people and political youth web sites. She has recently published in the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics and Information Polity.

Katja Željan is a freelance journalist and a post-graduate student of at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include the Internet in politics.

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