Acknowledgements

Professor Gerard Goggin
Professor of Digital Communication and Deputy Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales.

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communication and Deputy Director of the new Journalism and Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales.

Gerard has researched and published widely in media, cultural, and communication studies, with a focus on Internet, mobiles, telecommunication, and disability. He is author of over eighty refereed papers and book chapters, and author or editor of 8 books. Gerard is editor of the premier media studies journal Media International Australia.

Gerard is a founding board member of the new Australian Communications Consumer Action Network.

As well as his academic work, Gerard has a strong background in policy, industry, and community engagement dating back to the early 1990s. Gerard’s other research interests are in: Internet, telecommunications, and digital communication and media in general; media policy and regulation; disability. He has held academic appointments at Southern Cross University, University of Queensland, and the University of Sydney.

Webpage: http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/staff.php?first=Gerard&last=Goggin

Professor John Tulloch
Research Professor of Sociology and Communications
School of Social Sciences
Brunel University, West London

Professor John Tulloch is Research Professor in Sociology and Communications at Brunel University, West London, and is the author of numerous academic books and articles in the field.

He is also a survivor of the 7 July 2005 London bombings and his picture was flashed around the world as he emerged, injured, from Edgware Road Underground Station and, subsequently, being visited by HRH Prince Charles in a UK hospital.

John is uniquely placed to address his chosen keynote topic. A past Head of School for Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, Wales, John went on to be Director of the Centre for Cultural Research into Risk at Charles Sturt University, NSW, prior to taking up his position at Brunel.

John is an Australian citizen and lived in Australia for 25 years.

His book, One Day in July: Experiencing 7/7 was published by Little, Brown in 2006.

Website: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/depts/sociology/commStaff/JohnTulloch

A/Professor Peter van Onselen
Associate Professor of Politics and Government
Faculty of Education and Arts
Edith Cowan University
Perth, Western Australia

Dr Peter van Onselen is an Associate Professor in Politics and Government at Edith Cowan University. He is the co-author of the best selling biography John Winston Howard, rated by The Wall Street Journal as the best biography of 2007. In July this year he released Howard’s End: The Unravelling of a Government, and he is the editor of Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead, due for release in November. Dr van Onselen is a regular contributor to newspaper opinion pages and is a regular commentator about state and federal politics on both television and radio.

Webpage: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~iwwcv/