Professor John A. Lent

(School of Communications and Theatre, Temple University, USA)

http://astro.temple.edu/~jlent/biodata.htm

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in mass communications, University of Iowa, May 1972.

Dissertation: Commonwealth Caribbean Mass Media: Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Aspects. 

Master of Science in Journalism, OhioUniversity, 1960.

Minor in human relations.

Thesis: History and Critical Appraisal of an Alumni Association at a StateUniversity.

Bachelor of Science in Journalism, OhioUniversity, 1958.Cum Laude.

Certificate, Journalism Study Group, New Delhi, India, Summer 1980.

Certificate of Participation, Sophia University Summer School of Asian Studies, Tokyo, Japan, Summer 1965.

Certificate of Achievement, University of Oslo International Summer School, Summer 1962.

Guadalajara, Mexico, Summer School, Summer 1961.

Two years course work in mass communication research for Ph.D. taken at Syracuse University, 1962-1964.

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RESEARCH

First hand historical, descriptive, and bibliographic research on mass communications and popular culture in:Aruba, Summers 1968, 1980; Australia, December 1986, August 1996; Bangladesh, July 1993; Barbados, May 1989; Belgium, October 1997; Belize, May 1987; Brazil, August 1992; Brunei, November 1977; Burma, July 1993; Canada, May 1987, May 1997; China August 1985, August 1993, October 1996; Commonwealth Caribbean (including Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad andTobago), August-September 1970, April-May 1971, January 1976, January 1977, May 1984); Cuba, May 1982, July 1982, April 1991, June 1998, February 2000; Curacao, Summer 1968, Summer 1980, May 1995; Dominican Republic, May 1983; France, October 1992; Grenada, May 1992; Guadeloupe, June 1983, May 1988; Guatemala, June 1983; Hong Kong, August 1986, July 1992; Hungary, August 1990; India, July-August 1980, Summer 1984, August 1986, July 1993; Indonesia, July 1992; Iran, October 1999; Jamaica, May 1993; Japan, Summer1965, November 1993; Korea, Summer 1965, October 1982, July 1992, July 1994, August 1995; Laos, December 1973; Leeward Islands, May 1984; Macedonia, June 1991; Malaysia, June 1972-January 1974, November 1977, November 1986, July 1987, August 1993; Martinique, May 1979; Netherlands, October 1997; New Zealand, August 1999; Pakistan, July 1984; Philippines, August 1964-July 1965, August 1985, August 1986, September 1988, 1989, July 1992; Poland, February 1996, June 1996; Scotland, July 1998; Singapore, November 1986, July 1992; Slovakia, February 1992, February 1995; South Africa, July 1996; Sri Lanka, July 1993; Taiwan, July 1964, August 1986, July 1992; Thailand, August 1993; Trinidad, January 1990; Turkey, September 1996, May 1999; Ukraine, November 1999; U.S.Virgin Islands, May 1982; Vietnam, August 1993; Yugoslavia, August 1990.

Other types of research:Bibliographical on Caribbean, Asian and world media, women and media, comic art, etc.; photograph content analysis of eight selected newspapers of U.S.; content analysis of foreign news and information in U.S. mass media; photograph perception studies; experimental study of comic books and children; biographical study of Publisher S.I. Newhouse; survey of journalism education in New York; critical studies of communication pioneers, international division of labor, transnational communica- tions, government‥Cmedia relationships, press freedom; folk media. (See appended list of publications.)

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Professor Vincent Mosco

(Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Canada)

http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/Faculty/Mosco.htm

Research Areas

Sociology of  Information Technology, especially Labour; Political Economy of the Media; the Technological Sublime

Vincent Mosco is Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, Queen'University, Canada.   Professor Mosco graduated  from GeorgetownUniversity (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1970 and received his Ph.D. in Sociology from HarvardUniversity in 1975. He is  a research affiliate with the Harvard University Program on Information Resources Policy.

Professor Mosco is the author of five books and editor or coeditor of eight books on the media, telecommunications, computers and information technology. His most recent books are The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004), Continental Order? Integrating North America for Cybercapitalism (edited with Dan Schiller and published by Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) and The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal  (Sage, 1996) translated into Chinese (two editions- Beijing and Taiwan), Spanish, and Korean.  He has also published over one hundred journal articles, book chapters and reports. In 1996 he was named the Davidson Dunton lecturer at Carleton for outstanding research achievement and in 2000 he received the Teaching Excellence Award presented by the Carleton University Students??Association.

In 2004 Professor Mosco was given the Dallas Smythe Award, the annual prize of the Union for Democratic Communication for outstanding achievement in communication research.

Professor Mosco is a member of the editorial boards of academic journals in the U.S., the U.K., Turkey, Portugal, and Slovenia and has served as a contributor and a member of the editorial advisory board of the International Encyclopedia of Communication.  He has written about electronic commerce for a new edition of the Dictionary of American History. Professor Mosco has also been a member of the Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research and President of its Section on Political Economy.

Professor Mosco has held research positions in the U.S. government with the White House Office of Telecommunication Policy, the National Research Council and the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment and in Canada with the Federal Department of Communication.  He has also served as a consultant to government, business, trade unions, and civic associations in the United States, Canada, South Africa and Malaysia.

Professor Mosco is currently work on a project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council that addresses labour and trade unions in the communications industries of Canada and the United States.

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