Tom Abba

University of the West of England, Faculty of Creative Arts, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, BS3 2JT, United Kingdom

Keywords interactivity, narrative, film, ergodic, games

Dr Tom Abba is a specialist in narrative theory and practice. He completed his Ph.D. in interactive narrative at the University of the West of England in 2007, and teaches in the undergraduate media practice programme, the MA Media course and a wider range of courses at postgraduate level. He maintains an ongoing research interest in the grammar of new media and the language of psychogeography and place, and is active in several knowledge transfer projects, working to instigate interactive projects with media organizations across the United Kingdom.

As we might watch: What might arise from reconsidering the concept of interactive film?, Journal of Media Practice, 9.1, 19–27.

Abdel Rahman Abdalla Salih

Al-Zahra College for Women, Department of English Language and Literature, Madinat Al-Ilam, Muscat, P.O. Box 1197, P.C 114, Muttrah, Oman

Keywords media coverage, Iraq, Al-Jazeera, embedded journalists, Arab media

Abdel Rahman Abdalla Salih received a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from Putra University of Malaysia, and an MA in ESL from the International Islamic University of Malaysia, and a BA (Hons) in Arts and Education (English) from University of Khartoum-Sudan. He is currently teaching English at Al-Zahra College for Women, Sultanate of Oman. He is primarily interested in applied linguistics and issues related to discourse analysis, media discourse, translation and lexicography, besides a general interest in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

The Media and American Invasion of Iraq: A Tale of Two Wars, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 2.1&2, 81–90.

Masoud A. Abdulrahim

College of Arts & Science, P.O. Box 7207, Hawally, 32093, Kuwait

Keywords political attitudes, Al-Jazeera, Kuwaiti television, independent and government media, satellite television

Masoud A. Abdulrahim (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) is an assistant professor of mass communication and chair of the general education department at Gulf University for Science & Technology. His research interests include political communication, the Internet and journalism studies in the Arab world.

Winds of change in the Arab world: a comparative look at a political gratification and effects study of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel and Kuwaiti government television, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 1.2, 145–163.

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar

University of Westminster, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, School of Media, Arts and Design, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), Northwick Park, Harrow, HA1 3TP, UK

Keywords Africa, media

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar is a research fellow at the Africa Media Centre in the University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. He has been working for the BBC World Service, on and off, for well over a decade. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Westminster.

The media, politics and Boko blitz, Journal of African Media Studies, 4.1, 97–110.

John Adams

University of Bristol, Department of Drama (Theatre, Film, Television), Cantocks Close, Bristol, BS8 1UP, UK

Keywords screen media, practice research, creative industries, documentation

John Adams is emeritus professor of Film & Screen Media Practice in the School of Arts (Drama) at the University of Bristol, where he taught for many years. He has produced and/or directed over 30 broadcast films and theatre productions, and co-founded and has chaired the Watershed Media Centre (Bristol) and the production company Watershed Television Ltd. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Media Practice, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council media and communications panel for the RAE 2008. He writes and lectures on practice-based approaches to screen media teaching and research. His current interests include film and creative industries policy, space and place in film, and screen acting and performance.

Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 5.1, 5–6.

Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 6.3, 133–134.

Editorial, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2, 83–84.

Reviews, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2, 169–.

Conceptual smoke and digital mirrors? Issues in audio- visual (A/V) practice research, Journal of Media Practice, 8.2, 203–220.

UK Film: new directions in the glocal era, Journal of Media Practice, 12.2, 111–124.

Ernest W. Adams

Adams Consulting Services UK, 185 Guildford Road, Ash, Aldershot, GU12 6DT, United Kingdom

Keywords video games, art, video game industry, game design, video game art

Ernest Adams is an independent game designer, writer and teacher, working with the International Hobo design group. He has been in the video game industry since 1989, and is the author of four books, including Fundamentals of Game Design, a widely-used university textbook; and Break Into the Game Industry: How to Get a Job Making Video Games. He was most recently employed as a lead designer at Bullfrog Productions on the Dungeon Keeper series, and for several years before that he was the audio/video producer on the Madden NFL Football product line. He has developed online, computer, and console games for everything from the IBM 360 mainframe to the Nintendo Wii. He is the founder of the International Game Developers Association, and is a frequent lecturer at the Game Developers Conference and many other events.

Will computer games ever be a legitimate art form?, Journal of Media Practice, 7.1, 67–.

Fiona Adams

London College of Communication, University of the Arts, Elephant & Castle, Southwark, London, SE1 6SB, United Kingdom

Keywords Ruby Grierson, practice-based research, documentary film-making

Fiona Adams started her career in broadcasting as a 'pop promo' producer. Then, via Sheffield Hallam University, where she obtained an MA, she directed documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. She is now an associate lecturer in documentary film at the University of the Arts (London), Sussex University and University of Brighton.

The rediscovery of a life less ordinary – A practical application to research, Journal of Media Practice, 7.2, 143–150.

Catherine Adams

University of Alberta, Department of Secondary Education, 347 Education South, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G5, Canada

Keywords business education, hermeneutic phenomenology, communication technologies

Catherine Adams is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, where she teaches computing science and business education curriculum and instruction, philosophical and ethical issues of technology integration in education, and phenomenological research and writing. Her research interests include using hermeneuticphenomenology to examine the mediating influences and pedagogical significances of information and communication technologies and new media in the classroom.

The Poetics of PowerPoint, Explorations in Media Ecology, 7.4, 283–298.

OluwaTosin Adegbola

New Communications Building, 328, 1700 East Coldspring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251, United States of America

Keywords public relations, communications, teenagers

OluwaTosin Adegbola, Ph.D., is Professor of Public Relations and Chair of the Communications Studies Department at Morgan State University. She is also Faculty Advisor for AccessPR and Coach of the Honda Campus All Star Challenge. OluwaTosin Adegbola is the founder of SimpleComplexity LLC, a non-profit public relations consultancy and MIMe, a female teenagers' self actualization programme.

Film Reviews, Journal of African Media Studies, 3.1, 127–137.

Juan Miguel Aguado

Universidad de Murcia, Facultad de Comunicacion y Documentacion, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain

Keywords mass media system, self-reference, self-observation, epistemology, operational coupling, mobile communication

Juan Miguel Aguado is Associate Professor of Communication Theory in the School of Communication and Information Studies at the University of Murcia (Spain). He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and Postgraduate in Social Research by the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). He is a member of the International Research Committee on Sociology of Communication, Culture and Knowledge (RC14) at the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Self-observation, self-reference and operational coupling in social systems: steps towards a coherent epistemology of mass media, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, 1.1, 59–74.

Daniel Ahadi

Simon Fraser University, School of Communication, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada

Keywords political communication, diasporic media, multiculturalism, representation of Muslims, Orientalism, content analysis, discourse analysis, research methods

Daniel Ahadi is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Communication and a research associate at the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University. His research is focused on the Iranian immigrant communities and their communication infrastructure in diaspora.

L'Affaire Hrouxville in context: Conflicting narratives on Islam, Muslim women, and identity, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 2.3, 241–260.

Ali Nobil Ahmad

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, DHA, Lahore Cannt, 54792, Pakistan

Keywords technology, capitalism, information, journalism, Twitter

Ali Nobil Ahmad is an academic and journalist based in Pakistan. He currently teaches history at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS University in Lahore, and is researching journalism, cinema and the media in Pakistan. He received his doctorate from the Department of History at the European University Institute in Florence in 2008. In 2009, he was awarded the Scott Trust bursary for journalism and received training at The Guardian and Goldsmiths College in London, where he completed an MA in Journalism and contributed regularly to various journalistic publications, including The Guardian. Recent publications include a special issue of the journal Third Text on Cinema and Muslim World, which he guest-edited.

Is Twitter a useful tool for journalists?, Journal of Media Practice, 11.2, 145–155 .

John Akomfrah

Smoking Dogs Films, 26 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EZ, United Kingdom

Keywords diaspora, postcolonial cinema, black film-making, black audio film collective, smoking dogs films

John Akomfrah, OBE, is one of Britain's leading film-makers, whose feature films and documentaries have received international critical acclaim. Akomfrah came to prominence as part of the London-based Black Audio Film Collective, which he co-founded in 1982. As part of the collective, Akomfrah directed a series of highly acclaimed films including Handsworth Songs (1986) (winner of the John Grierson award), Testament (1988), Who Needs a Heart (1991) and Seven Songs for Malcom X (1993).

Digitopia and the spectres of diaspora, Journal of Media Practice, 11.1, 21–29.

Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid

Keywords telecommunications, policy

Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid was elected Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau by the Plenipotentiary Conference on 14 November 2006 in Antalya, Turkey. He took office on 1 January 2007. Al Basheer Al Morshid has more than 23 years experience in telecommunications in Saudi Arabia and overseas, including two years at the ITU Regional Office in Cairo. As head of the department responsible for telecommunication policy and investment matters at national, regional and international levels, he has extensive experience in telecommunications management and development, as well as in negotiating and formulating international agreements on commercial, operational, maintenance and investment issues. In addition to his role at the national level, Al Basheer Al Morshid played a leading role within regional organizations, acting as Chairman and participating in many conferences in ITU and at other regional and international organizations in the telecommunications sector.

International Telecommunication Union, International Journal of Digital Television, 1.3, 367–371.

Ali Jamal al-Kandari

Gulf University for Science and Technology, College of Arts and Science, P.O. Box 7207, Hawally, 32093, Kuwait

Keywords political attitudes, Al-Jazeera, Kuwaiti TV, independent media, government, satellite television

Ali Jamal al-Kandari (Ph.D., the University of Southern Mississippi) is an assistant professor of mass communication at Gulf University for Science & Technology. His research interests include political communication, the internet and public relations.

Winds of change in the Arab world: a comparative look at a political gratification and effects study of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel and Kuwaiti government television, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 1.2, 145–163.

Arab news networks and conspiracy theories about America: A political gratification study, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 3.1&2, 59–76.

Salam Al-Mahadin

Amman University, P.O. Box 940840, Amman, 11194, Jordan

Keywords women, transgressive, sexuality, drama series, Arab

Salam Al-Mahadin is associate professor of English at Amman University in Jordan. She earned her MSc in Translation and Interpreting and her Ph.D. in Text-Linguistics and Discourse Analysis from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr Al-Mahadin has over 14 years of teaching experience in cultural studies. Her research interests have focused on various aspects of politics of national identity, media studies, women's issues in Jordan and the Arab world and children's literature. She has translated several works into English and Arabic.

Five marriages and a funeral: Constructing the sexually transgressive female on Arab satellite channels, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 7.2, 173–187.

Five marriages and a funeral: Constructing the sexually transgressive female on Arab satellite channels, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 7.2, 173–187.

Ahmed al-Rawi

Sohar University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, P.O. Box 44, Sohar, 311, Oman

Keywords film, video games, Iraqi stereotypes, American propaganda, Gulf War

Ahmed Al-Rawi is an Iraqi assistant professor who has taught Communication, English Literature and Journalism and is currently teaching English Language at Majan University College in Oman. He is studying for his second Ph.D. in Media and Mass Communication from Leicester University and has had papers published in Arab Studies Quarterly,John Buchan Journal, and written chapters of books such as 'Islam & the East in John Buchan's Novels' in Reassessing John Buchan: Beyond the 39 Steps (London, Pickering & Chatto Publishers).

Iraqi women journalists' challenges and predicaments, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 3.3, 223–236.

Bader S.M. al-Saud

Goldsmiths, University of London, Department of Media & Communications, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, United Kingdom

Keywords sensationalism, Saudi Arabia, tabloidization, Islam, Islamophobia

Bader S.M. al-Saud holds an MA in International Journalism and is currently a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research work is focused on Arab satellite television, media ethics and the coverage of wars and conflicts. He is also a London-based freelance journalist with various established Saudi Arabian newspapers and a regular contributor to a monthly communication and information magazine under the nom de plume Bader bin Saud.