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Christopher May

Christopher May is Professor of Political Economy at Lancaster University, and has published widely on intellectual property, as well as being the author of The Information Society: A Sceptical View (Polity 2002). His latest book is Intellectual Property: A Critical History (with Susan Sell) (Lynne Rienner 2005), and he has just finished work on a study of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.

Ali Mohamed

Ali Mohamed is a PhD candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University. His current research focuses on new communication technology and news. His research interests include the impact and influences of the new media news environment and the major changes in the professional roles and quality standards of news. In addition, he is exploring the implications of new communication technologies, in particular, their potential to enable new configurations of news production and emerging forms of political communication in respect to the public sphere in non-democratic contexts.

Madeleine Frost

Madeleine Frost is working towards a part-time PhD with the Sociology Department at the University of York. Her thesis looks at postmodern identity through a case study of Buddhism online. She is also the Education & Community Officer at Harrogate Theatre.

Neal Thomas

Neal Thomas is a second-year doctoral student in Communication Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. An erstwhile new media designer and educator, he is presently researching the practice of social systems simulation, coming to understand how computational models of social activity act as technocratic boundary objects in academic, policy and popular discourse.