Francois Bar
Professor

François Bar is Associate Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He directs the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication.

His research interests include comparative telecommunication policy, as well as economic, strategic and social dimensions of computer networking, new media and the Internet. His research has been published in books of collected studies, in policy reports, and in such journals as Information Technologies and International Development, Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, Organization Science, Infrastructure Economics and Policy, Communications & Strategies, Réseaux, and the International Journal of Technology Management. He currently serves on the advisory boards of non-profit Compumentor, and start-ups Clickability and Polaris Wireless.

Manuel Castells
Professor

Manuel Castells is the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 2003. He is, as well, the Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at M.I.T, and Research Professor of the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. Prior to his appointment at USC he was, from 1979 to 2003, Professor of Planning and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and of the British Academy, and has received 16 honorary doctorates from universities around the world. His trilogy "The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture" (Blackwell 1996-2003) has been translated into 22 languages. Among other appointments, he has been a member of the United Nations Secretary General's Advisory Committee on Information Technology, and of the President of South Africa's International Advisory Committee on Technology and Development. He is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, the research funding institution of the European Union.

Janet Fulk
Professor

Janet Fulk is a Professor of Communications in the Annenberg School for Communication and Professor of Management & Organization in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. She holds M.B.A. and Ph.D. in administrative sciences from The Ohio State University.

Her publications include three books, one of which won the best book award from the National Communication Association in 1990. Recent articles on organizations and communication technology and NGO networks have appeared in Human Relations, Communication Theory, Human Communication Research and Organization Science, and an award-winning article appeared in Academy of Management Journal.

She has served on the Board of Governors of Academy of Management, where she also was elected Fellow. She served as Deputy Dean of the Academy of Management Fellows from 1999 to 2002.

To find out more about Janet Fulk, visit www-rcf.usc.edu/~fulk.

Peter Monge
Professor

Peter Monge is Professor of Communication at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business. His most recent book (with Noshir Contractor), Theories of Communication Networks, was published by Oxford University Press in Spring 2003. He has also published Communicating and Organizing (with Vince Farace and Hamish Russell), Multivariate Techniques in Human Communication Research (with Joe Cappella), Policing Hawthorne (with Janet Fulk and Greg Patton) and Reasoning with Statistics (5th ed, with Fred Williams). His research on organizational communication networks, collaborative information systems, globalization and communication processes, coevolutionary theory, and research methods has been published in numerous leading communication and organizational journals, handbooks and book chapters. He is a former editor of Communication Research (1986 to 1993) and a fellow and former president of the International Communication Association (1997-1998). In 2003 he received the Distinguished Scholar award from the Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management, and the Distinguished Research Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Bettina Heiss
Doctoral Candidate

Bettina Heiss graduated from Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minn., with a major in Communication and a minor in Conflict Studies. In the broadest sense, she is interested in the way communication networks evolve over time. In the context of such networks, her areas of interest include knowledge emergence, accumulation and deterioration; technology use and virtuality; and the social psychology of networked organizing. She hopes to explore these topics further by examining inter-organizational activist networks involved in social movements.

Seungyoon Lee
Doctoral Candidate

Seungyoon Lee's research interests include telecommunications policy, new information and communication technologies and development, and organizational evolution examined through the application of social network analysis. She works on projects that explore the potential of telecommunications infrastructure, particularly wireless networks, on the social and economic development in rural communities of Asia and Latin America. Her current research examines the evolution of networks among international organizations that are involved in ICT for development projects. She is a graduate researcher with the Annenberg Networks Network, the Annenberg Research Network on Interna-tional Communication and the Center for the Digital Future's World Internet Project. Before coming to USC Annenberg, she received a B.A. in Mass Communication at Yonsei University in Korea and worked as a market researcher at Cheil Communications, the leading advertising agency in Korea.

Joyee Chatterjee
Doctoral Student

Joyee did her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Delhi University, in India, followed by a M.A. in Social Work from the Tate Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. She followed that with a stint with the charity Child Rights and You. Her broad area of interest is in looking at how communication and popular culture reflect and impact social change, especially in South Asia. Her most recent project was a study of the use of South Asian matrimonial websites by members of the Indian community—especially looking at the impact on the idea of "arranged marriage"—and the articulation of contemporary gender-role expectations.

Drew Margolin
Doctoral Student

Drew graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1996 with distinction in Economics. Prior to coming to USC Annenberg, Drew was Chief Financial Officer of Medley Global Advisors, a research firm that provided information about government policy to hedge funds and investment banks. Drew's research interests center on social networks and rhetoric within the context of organizational activity. Drew is also the president of the Annenberg Communication Graduate Student Association (ACGSA).

Cindy Shen
Doctoral Student

Cuihua (Cindy) Shen is a second year PhD student at Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Her fundamental research interest is to understand human activities in the new social spaces created by the Internet and new communication technologies. Specifically, she studies virtual communities that are created for information sharing, collaborative production, and entertainment, from both socio-psychological and sociological perspectives. Methodologically, she employs quantitative as well as social network analytic tools. Cindy comes from Suzhou, a beautiful city in southeast China. Before coming to USC, she earned her BA in English at Zhejiang University and her MA in Communication at National University of Singapore.

Kimberlie Stephens
Doctoral Student

Kimberlie Stephens is currently a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include interorganizational collaboration and strategic alliance networks. More specifically she is interested in the process of how these relationships play out, including what type of information is shared, what makes interactions successful, and how organizations can learn from their experiences and apply newly gained knowledge to future collaborative relationships. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Kimberlie received her B.A. in Communication from the Annenberg School and worked for several years as a professional conference planner in the continuing medical education field.

Matthew Weber
Doctoral Student

Matthew Weber graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Economics, and received an M.S. in Journalism and Media Management at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Matt is interested in communication and technology, with a focus on the impact of emerging technologies on the media industry. He has recently given lectures and presentations on the evolution of the newspaper industry and the business of media. He is a member of the Phi Beta Tau Journalism Honors Society, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Previously, he has worked as a media strategist for Starcom Worldwide and as an assistant brand manager for Tribune Corp., where he launched multiple new media initiatives.