Organisers

Professor Lelia Green is Professor of Communications and Associate Dean, Research and Higher Degrees in the Faculty of Education and Arts, Edith Cowan University. Author of Technoculture: from alphabet to cybersex (Allen & Unwin 2002), Lelia is currently writing a book on The Internet. She has authored or co-authored more than fifty refereed papers and has served on the editorial boards of Media International Australia and the Australian Journal of Communication. She is one of the 'Australia .au' authors for the Digital Review of Asia Pacific.

In addition to her work with the ARC Discovery Project which led to this Forum: Australian responses to the images and discourses of terrorism and the other: Establishing a metric of fear, Lelia is a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Indutries and Innovation, and is (or has been) first Chief Investigator for three ARC Linkage projects (two in online community, with the National Heart Foundation; the other with the Public Transport Authority, WA), and a past Discovery project looking at the Internet in Australian family life.

As a former TV researcher and director, Lelia has had a career-long commitment to applied research in the creative industries. She investigates ways in which media and communication technologies connect individuals to each other and to their communities, and is keenly interested in the social implications of these exchanges. Lelia publishes in the area of research methodologies and her recent involvement in creative and performing arts research has seen her contribute to critiques of practice-led methods that lead to non-traditional research outputs.

Professor Green's research profile is available at http://createc.ea.ecu.edu.au/researchers/profile.php?researcher=lgreen0

Professor Mark Balnaves is Professor of New Media at Edith Cowan University. He has co-authored and co-edited on the diffusion of media in the Penguin Atlas of Media and Information, on research methods in the Sage publication Introduction to Quantitative Methods and on audiences and media ratings the University of Queensland Press book Mobilising the Audience. His co-authored Media theories and approaches: A global perspective, in press, with Palgrave Macmillan, provides an overview of trends in media studies.

Professor Balnaves' research profile is available at http://createc.ea.ecu.edu.au/researchers/profile.php?researcher=mbalnave

Dr Anne Aly has completed her PhD in Media and Cultural Studies entitled Australian audience responses to the discourse of terrorism in the Australian popular media: The fear of terrorism between and among Australian Muslims and the broader community. Anne's PhD research forms part of a broader ARC funded study on the fear of terrorism. She has published articles in various areas of interest including the historical representation of Muslim women in the media; racism, fear and Australian identity; the fear of terrorism; Australian Muslim identity; conceptualisations of ethnicity in research; citizenship; secularism and religious minorities and political fear.

She is currently Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Social Marketing at Edith Cowan University and has previously occupied senior policy positions in government. Anne is also current President of Dar al Shifah Islamic Inc., a volunteer organisation that offers services to the community and to government.

Her research interests include multiculturalism; Australian identity; border fear and anxiety; active citizenship and ethnicity and social determinants of health.

Dr Aly's research profile is available at http://www.business.ecu.edu.au/schools/mtl/staff/aaly.htm