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David Sanford Horner

David Sanford Horner is Head of the Division of Information and Media Studies, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton. His principal research and teaching interests are in information and communication ethics and the social studies of science and technology. His research and writing are particularly focused upon the ethics of technological forecasting and the forecasting of ethics. Previously he was a research fellow and visiting lecturer at the Technology Policy Unit, Aston University.

Dominic Madell

Dominic Madell is a Research Fellow at the University of Teesside. His recent work has examined young people's use of the Internet and mobile phones and, in particular, how this might be related to the psychological conditions of social anxiety and social phobia.

Mark Monmonier

Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School, where he teaches map design and environmental hazards and writes on the societal impact of geospatial technologies. His most recent books are Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy (Chicago, 2002), Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection (Chicago, 2004), and From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame (Chicago, 2006). He also serves as editor of Cartography in the Twentieth Century, an encyclopaedia under development as Volume Six of the multidisciplinary History of Cartography published by the University of Chicago Press.

Philip Wane

Philip Wane is a University Teaching Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. His teaching is focused on the impact of technology on society. Specialist interests include the issues surrounding the implementation of e-learning in higher education. Amongst his current projects is the development of pragmatic e-learning resources for the JISC sponsored Social Work and Social Policy (SWAP) Learning and Teaching Strategy Network (LTSN). He also acts as a referee and reviewer for several publications and academic programmes. University Teaching Fellow

Frank Webster

Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology, City University London. He was Professor of Sociology, Oxford Brookes University (1990–1998) and the University of Birmingham (1999–2002). He has recently completed a third edition of Theories of the Information Society (Routledge 2006) and (with Howard Tumber), Journalists at War: Information War and Journalistic Practices (Sage 2006).