| Jay Brower is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Media Arts at Western Connecticut State University. W. Benjamin Myers is associate professor chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Toledo. Ahmet Atay is Professor of Global Media and Communication at the College of Wooster, USA. His research focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations; British and US soap operas, the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home; representation of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in media; queer and immigrant experiences in cyberspace, and critical communication pedagogies. Jay Brower is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Media Arts at Western Connecticut State University. Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She has been named a Distinguished Professor by the National Communication Association-the organization's highest award of lifetime scholarly achievement in the study of human communication; she is also recipient of the Legacy Lifetime Award given by NCA's Ethnography Division, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has been honored with various outstanding faculty mentoring and teaching awards across her career. Her publications have won awards from the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the National Communication Association. W. Benjamin Myers is associate professor chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Toledo. Keith Nainby is professor of communication studies at California State University, Stanislaus. |
