Participant Biographies

ANG Peng Hwa is Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Ordering Chaos: Regulating the Internet (Thomson, 2005), which argues that the internet can be, is being and should be regulated. He was a member of 40-strong Working Group on Internet Governance appointed by the UN Secretary-General for 2004-2005. He is currently on sabbatical as Visiting Dean of the newly established Mudra Institute of Communications Research, in Ahmedabad, India.

Michael Anti (ZHAO Jing) is a freelancer, Harvard Nieman Fellow, political columnist on international issues for South Metropolis Daily and other Chinese or English media, publisher of Far and Wide Journal , and an international jury member for Best of Blogs Competition held by DW in Germany in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Bob BOORSTIN is Director of Corporate and Policy Communications in the Washington D.C. office of Google, where he helps design and implement the company’s strategies on a wide range of domestic and international policy issues. Mr. Boorstin, 49, has more than 25 years of experience in political communications, national security, public opinion research and journalism. He served for more than seven years in the Clinton Administration, with positions including the president’s chief speechwriter at the National Security Council and senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He helped establish the Washington-based think tank, the Center for American Progress, and has served as communications and political advisor to party leaders and leading government officials in the U.S. and Europe. Since 1987, when he was diagnosed with manic depression, Mr. Boorstin has been an outspoken activist and advocate on behalf of people with mental illness.

Joseph CAPPELLA is Professor of Communication and holds the Gerald R. Miller Chair at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cappella’s research has resulted in more than 100 articles and book chapters and three co-authored books in areas of health and political communication, social interaction, nonverbal behavior, media effects, and statistical methods. The articles have appeared in journals in psychology, communication, health, and politics. His research has been supported by grants from NIMH, NIDA, NSF, NCI, NHGRI, The Twentieth Century Fund, and from the Markle, Ford, Carnegie, Pew, and Robert Wood Johnson foundations. He has served on the editorial boards of 15 different journals. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and its past president, a distinguished scholar of the National Communication Association, and recipient of the B. Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award.

Chen LU is a 1-year M.Phil student in Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include new media and society, collective Memory and public relations. She received her B.A. from Journalism and Communication School at Fudan University, China. Prior to beginning her graduate studies, Chen worked in the Public Relations and Media Department in Phoenix Satellite Television for four years.

Edmon CHUNG is serving as the CEO for DotAsia Organisation, a not-for-profit organization with a mandate to promote Internet development and adoption in Asia, and as Vice Chair for the Internet Society HK Chapter. Edmon is also an elected member of the Elections Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, an elected councilor of the ICANN GNSO Council, and Secretariat for the ICANN APRALO (Asia Pacific At-Large Organisation). Edmon is an inventor of patents underlying technologies for internationalized domain names (IDN) and email addresses on the Internet. He founded Neteka Inc. in partnership with the University of Toronto Innovations Foundation in 1999, and went on to win the Most Innovative Award in the Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurship Award in 2001. In 2000, Edmon was selected by The Globe and Mail as one of the Young Canadian Leaders. Edmon has a Bachelor of Applied Science and Master of Engineering from the University of Toronto, and is a PhD candidate at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.¬

Sarah COOK is an Asia researcher at Freedom House and assistant editor for the Freedom on the Net index. She has served as assistant to the editor of the 2008 Freedom of the Press index and analyst for both that publication and Freedom in the World. Her research has covered human rights and media developments in East Asia, Indochina, and the Middle East, including recent fact-finding trips to Hong Kong and Taiwan. She has also been a country report author on China for a recent Freedom House publication on the status of freedom of association. Before joining Freedom House, she co-edited the English translation of A China More Just, a memoir by prominent rights attorney Gao Zhisheng, and was twice a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva for an NGO working on religious freedom in China. She received a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and, as a Marshall Scholar, completed Master's degrees in Middle East Politics and Public International Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Jens DAMM is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies at Freie Universität, Berlin, and an Associate Fellow at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), Tubingen. He is currently on a research leave at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, and the National Central University, Taiwan. He is working on a book entitled "Discourses on the Chinese/Taiwanese Diaspora: From the Invention of the Overseas Chinese to the Taiwanese Compatriots." His research interest in general focuses on discourses as well as their historical background on gender and ethnicity-related issues in Taiwan, Greater China including the PRC, the impact of new communication technologies, and perceptions of overseas Chinese and Taiwanese. He is author of Homosexuality and Society in Taiwan: 1945 to 1995 (2003) and has (co-)edited works such as Postmodern China (2008), Taiwanese Identity from Domestic, Regional and Global Perspectives (2007), China Networks (2009).

Peter DECHERNEY is the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching focus on the history of media regulation and on internet policy, specifically the interaction between Hollywood and Washington. He is the author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American (Columbia UP, 2005) and many articles on the Hollywood film industry, on the history of media regulation, and on fair use and academia, among other topics. In 2006, along with two colleagues, he successfully petitioned for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for media professors using clips for teaching. In addition to Penn, Decherney has taught at Yale, Johns Hopkins, and Tsinghua University (Beijing). He is currently working on a new book on the history and future of Hollywood and copyright law.

Michael DELLI CARPINI, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1975) and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (1980). Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in July of 2003, Professor Delli Carpini was Director of the Public Policy program of the Pew Charitable Trusts (1999-2003), and member of the Political Science Department at Barnard College and graduate faculty of Columbia University (1987-2002), serving as chair of the Barnard department from 1995 to 1999. Delli Carpini began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Rutgers University (1980-1987). His research explores the role of the citizen in American politics, with particular emphasis on the impact of the mass media on public opinion, political knowledge and political participation. He is author of Stability and Change in American Politics: The Coming of Age of the Generation of the 1960s (New York University Press, 1986), What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters (Yale University Press, 1996 and winner of the 2008 American Association of Public Opinion Researchers Book Award) and A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life and the Changing American Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2006), as well as numerous articles, essays and edited volumes on political communications, public opinion and political socialization. Professor Delli Carpini was awarded the 2008 Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award from the Political Communication Division of the American Political Science Association.

Roger DINGLEDINE is project leader for The Tor Project, a US non-profit working on anonymity research and development for such diverse organizations as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the US Navy, and Voice of America. In addition to all the hats he wears for Tor, Roger organizes academic conferences on anonymity, speaks at such events as Blackhat, Defcon, Toorcon, CCC congresses, and What the Hack, and also does tutorials on anonymity for national and foreign law enforcement. Roger recently moved to Philadelphia, where he is a visiting professor at Drexel University.

Bruce ETLING directs the Internet & Democracy Project at the Berkman Center. Before joining Berkman, Bruce was the Director of USAID’s Office of Democracy and Governance in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has also worked on democracy programs for USAID in Russia and Cambodia. Before USAID, he worked on a large independent media development program in the NIS and Central and Eastern Europe for the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). He first joined Harvard Law School as part of the Afghan Legal History Project at the Islamic Legal Studies Program. Bruce's current research interests include the Iranian, Arabic, and Russian blogospheres, online organizing, and the Internet's impact on the Georgian-Russian conflict over South Ossetia. He blogs at the Internet & Democracy Blog (blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog).

FAN Dong is a Ph.D. student and fellow at Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. She attained her double Master’s degree from Global Communication and Media, which is a joint program of London School of Economics and Political Science and USC. Her research interest is in new media technology, digital creativity and innovation.

Fan HU is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research focuses on social and psychological effects of mediated messages on adolescents and young adults. Specific interests include the effects of advertising and media use on body image- and appearance-related, health-related cognitions, emotions, and behaviors, and media users’ social comparison with media images.

Rob FARIS joined the Berkman Center in May 2006. His work is focused on carrying out a global study of Internet censoring practices covering 35 countries in conjunction with colleagues at the OpenNet Initiative. This three-year study, supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, will produce the first comprehensive assessment of the growing involvement of governments around the world in restricting public access to Internet content. Rob’s research interests concentrate on the integration of communication technology and participatory policy research to improve the effectiveness of public policy. His recent work is motivated by the belief that economic development is predicated on sound collective decision-making and that successful governance of the commons is best achieved through the active engagement of the public in a well-informed dialogue.

Amy GADSDEN is Associate Dean for International Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 2006-2008, she served as Resident Country Director for China at the International Republican Institute (IRI), a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing democracy worldwide. She managed multiple development programs on the Chinese mainland from IRI’s regional office in Hong Kong, including a comprehensive civil society building program working with HIV/AIDS NGOs, migrant worker associations, and women's rights groups. From 2001-2003, Dr. Gadsden was Special Advisor for China in the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. While at State, she helped to establish a multi-million dollar grant program to support democracy, human rights and the rule of law in China and was responsible for reporting on multinational firms’ corporate social responsibility efforts in the PRC. She has worked extensively on joint cooperation projects with Chinese governmental and non-governmental agencies and has done consulting work for the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner’s Office for Human Rights, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the National Committee on US-China Relations. She is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and an Advisory Council member of the Women’s Democracy Network (WDN). Dr. Gadsden has a B.A. in History and English from Yale College and a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three daughters.

David GOLUMBIA is an Assistant Professor of English, Media Studies, and Linguistics at the University of Virginia, where he teaches and conducts research about computer technology, new media, vernacular and indigenous media and literature, and other topics in contemporary cultural studies and critical theory. He is the author of many articles on these topics, and recently published a book about the cultural implications of mass computerization titled The Cultural Logic of Computation (Harvard UP, 2009).

Robert GUERRA is the Program Director of Freedom House’s Internet Freedom Program. Prior to joining Freedom House in 2007, Mr. Guerra advised and trained nongovernmental organizations in almost two dozen countries across the world on secure communications, network security, and virtual collaboration. Mr. Guerra’s expertise on issues of internet governance, data privacy, and human rights is reflected in his service as a board member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, civil society advisor to the Canadian government delegation to the UN World Summit on the Information Society, and member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee.

Emily HANNUM is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on education, child and youth welfare, and social inequality, mainly in China. She co-directs the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, a longitudinal study of children's welfare in rural northwest China, and is co-editor of Comparative Education Review. Recent publications include "Beyond Cost: Rural Perspectives on Barriers to Education." (with Jennifer Adams, in Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China, edited by Deborah Davis and Wang Feng, 2008, Stanford University Press) and "Gender-Based Employment Differences in Urban China: Considering the Contributions of Marriage and Parenthood." (with Yuping Zhang and Meiyan Wang, Social Forces, 2008).

Leslie HARRIS is the President & CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology (“CDT”), a non-profit advocacy organization committed to keeping the Internet open, innovation and free. www.cdt.org. Ms. Harris is responsible for the overall vision and direction of the organization and serves as the organization’s chief spokesperson. She has been involved with a wide range of issues related to civil liberties, new technologies and the Internet, including online privacy and security, Internet neutrality, intellectual property and free expression. On behalf of CDT, Ms. Harris frequently testifies before Congress and Executive branch agencies and is a regular contributor to several online publications and blogs, including the Huffington Post and ABC News Ahead of the Curve. During her tenure at CDT, Ms. Harris has overseen the launch of several innovative and influential new projects including a Health Privacy Project to address the privacy challenges posed by the electronic exchange of personal health information. She also led a two-year effort to create the Global Network Initiative, a diverse coalition of leading Internet companies, human rights and free press organizations, investors and academics to advance freedom of expression and privacy on the global Internet. www.globalnetworkinitiative.org.

Sharon HOM is executive director of Human Rights in China (HRIC), and professor of law emerita, City University of New York School of Law, where she taught for 18 years. Hom has testified on a variety of human rights issues before international policymakers, including US and EU government bodies and think tanks. She has appeared as guest and commentator in broadcast programs worldwide, and is frequently interviewed by and quoted in major print media.. Hom has led HRIC in its consultations with a number of companies on methods for doing business and investing in China responsibly, and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of 2007’s “50 Women to Watch” for their impact on business. Hom has published extensively on Chinese legal reforms, trade, technology, and international human rights, including a chapter in China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges, edited by Minky Worden (2008); and Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora: Memoirs, Essays, and Poetry, Editor (1999), and Challenging China: Struggle And Hope In An Era Of Change, Co-editor (2007).

HU Yong is an associate professor at Peking University’s School of Journalism and Communication, and a pioneering developer of China's Internet. Before joining the faculty of Peking University, Hu Yong has worked for a number of media sources, including Lifeweek, China Daily, China Internet Weekly and China Central Television. He is also active in industry affairs as he is co-founder of the Digital Forum of China, a nonprofit organization that promotes public awareness of digitalization, and advocates a free and responsible Internet, and co-founded the Digital Forum of China. He is also a founding director for Communication Association of China (CAC) and China New Media Communication Association (CNMCA). His publications include Internet: The King Who Rules and has translated several groundbreaking English books on digital technology, including Being Digital, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age and Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations. His most recent book is The Rising Cacophony: Personal Expression and Public Discussion in the Internet Age, documenting the major transformations in the Chinese cyberspace. He is also a columnist with Sina.com, Tom.com and Project Syndicate. In 2000, Hu Yong was nominated for China’s list of top Internet industry figures.

JIANG Fei is an Associate professor in International & Intercultural Communication research at The Insistitute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing. He is the Deputy Secretary-in-general for CAC (Communication Association of China), Deputy Director for the Department of Communication and Director for the Center of World Media Studies (CWMS). Dr. Jiangfei has published He is the author of Post-colonial Context of Intercultural Communication (2005), the Editor-in-chief of Media Abroad in China (2005), and co-author of Internet Communication and the Social Developent (2005), and The Structure of Global Communication (2006). He has also published in the several journals including Guangming Daily, Journalism and Communication, Theory and Criticism of Literature and Art, Foreign Literature Studies. He has also been a visiting scholar at many Universities, including the Annenberg School in 2007-2008.

Li JIANG is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Cornell. Her research focuses on psychological and relational processes in computer-mediated communication contexts. She is interested in exploring how socio-emotional information is composed, exchanged and understood in cyberspace. Areas of interest include examinations of online self-disclosure, online self-presentation, digital deception, and the impact of these processes on shaping interpersonal relationships.

Min JIANG is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of mass communication, new media, international communication and research methods. Her research interests include Chinese online civic and political participation, Chinese government websites, and new media for social change. A recipient of several research grants, she was most recently selected as a Research Fellow at UNC-Charlotte’s Center for Humanities, Technology, and Science. Jiang received her Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University in 2007. Prior to pursuing her doctor’s degree in the U.S., Jiang worked as a TV journalist/editor as well as on the movie set in her native country China.

Karin KARLEKAR is the managing editor of Freedom of the Press, an annual survey that tracks trends in media freedom worldwide, as well as of Freedom on the Net, a pilot index of internet and digital media freedom. She coordinates the research, ratings, and editorial processes for the surveys, and also writes a number of the country reports for Freedom of the Press. In addition, she has conducted research and assessment missions to Nigeria, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan, and has traveled extensively in Asia and Africa. She regularly serves as the spokesperson for Freedom House on media and press freedom issues, and has been quoted extensively in U.S. and foreign media outlets. For the past five years, she has represented Freedom House in the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) network, and in February 2006 was elected as IFEX Convenor and head of IFEX's governing Council. In addition, Dr. Karlekar is responsible for researching and writing South Asia country reports for the Freedom in the World survey and authored the reports on Afghanistan and Sri Lanka for the Countries at a Crossroads 2004 survey. Prior to joining Freedom House, Dr. Karlekar was a Deputy Editor for the electronic division for the Economist Intelligence Unit and also served as a consultant to Human Rights Watch. She holds a Ph.D. in Indian History from Cambridge University, England.

John KELLY is the founder and lead scientist of Morningside Analytics. His research blends Social Network Analysis, content analysis, and statistics to solve the problem of making complex online networks visible and understandable. John has an M.Phil from Columbia University (Ph.D. pending), and has studied communications at Stanford and at Oxford’s Internet Institute. He is an Affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. John's research combines content analysis and large-scale social network analysis of online communications, lookingg at patterns of links, citations, replies, and other discursive ties among large numbers of actors. His core focus is understanding how online networks are structured around the interests, identities, and ideologies of participant actors, and how these structures channel collective attention to various sorts of information.

Randy KLUVER is Director of the Institute for Pacific Asia and Interim Director of the Office of Latin American Programs at Texas A&M University. Dr. Kluver also holds an appointment as Research Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Previously, he was Executive Director of the Singapore Internet Research Centre, and an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. Kluver earned an undergraduate degree in Communication from the University of Oklahoma, a master's degree from California State University in Los Angeles and a doctorate from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He has been on the faculty at Oklahoma City University, Jiangxi Normal University in China, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has published over thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and is the author, editor, or co-editor of four books.

Sunny S.K. LAM is studying his PhD at the School of Journalism and Communication in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is an expert on intertextual studies of cultural and media industries, popular culture and new media communication, especially digital cinematic production, computer animation and visual youth culture, and has done extensive research on cultural studies and new media, and the global development of visual communication.

Hongmei LI (Conference Co-Organizer) is an assistant professor in international communication at Georgia State University. She is currently a George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She works with Monroe Price on several China-related projects. Her research interests include advertising and consumer culture, globalization, cultural identities and new communication technologies. She is now working on a book manuscript on advertising and consumer culture in China. Hongmei Li obtained her Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California and her Bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from Peking University, China.

Hanteng LIAO is a DPhil Candidate (Oxford Internet Institute) of various disciplines whose research aims to reconsider the role of keywords (sociolinguistics) and hyperlinks (webometrics) in shaping groups (governance) as bearers of ideas (political communication). He holds an MSc in Computer Science and Information Engineering, an MA in Journalism, a BSc in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, all from the National Taiwan University.

Dave LYONS is a masters candidate in Library and Information Science at the School of Communications, Information and Library Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. His primary interests are informational history, bureaucracy & technology, and the Chinese Internet. He has lived in China for several years, and currently works as an analyst for Marbridge Consulting in Beijing.

Rebecca MACKINNON is a 2009 Open Society Institute fellow, working on a book about China and the global Internet. She is cofounder of Global Voices (Globalvoicesonline.org), a global citizen media network, and an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, where she teaches online journalism and conducts research on the Internet, China, and censorship. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, she was previously CNN's Beijing bureau chief in Beijing and in Tokyo. She is a founding member of the Global Network Initiative, an initiative to advance freedom of expression and privacy in the Internet and telecoms sectors. She was also public lead in 2007 and 2008 for Creative Commons Hong Kong. She has previously been a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. For more information about MacKinnon and her work see her blog at Rconversation.blogs.com.

Colin MACLAY is the Managing Director of the Berkman Center, where he is privileged to work in diverse capacities with its faculty, staff, fellows and extended community to realize its ambitious goals. His broad aim is to effectively and appropriately integrate information and communication technologies (ICTs) with social and economic development, focusing on the changes Internet technologies foster in society, policy and institutions. Both as Co-founder of the Information Technologies Group at Harvard’s Center for International Development and at Berkman, Maclay’s research has paired hands-on multi stakeholder collaborations with the generation of data that reveal trends, challenges and opportunities for the integration of ICTs in developing world communities.

Isaac MAO is a philosopher on Sharism, social entrepreneur, blogger, software architect and researcher in learning and social technology. He divides his time between research, social works, business and technology. He is now managing director of Social Brain Foundation, board member to Tor Project, advisory to Global Voices Online and board member to several web 2.0 and new media businesses. As one of the earliest bloggers in the Chinese community, Isaac is not only co-founder of CNBlog.org which is the earliest evangelizing site in China on grassroots publishing, but also the co-chair of Chinese Blogger Conference (2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou,2007 in Beijing, 2008 in Guangzhou). The CNBlog program then transformed itself into Social Brain Foundation (SBF) later on to umbrella Social Media and free culture in China covering Free Access, Free Speech and Free Thinking areas, exampled projects like Digital Nomads, Ideas Factory, Memedia, Digital Nomads, Open Education and Creative Commons China(before 2006), etc. Isaac is now studying how to apply social doctrines and technologies to totally eclipse global censorship clouds. At the same time, Isaac pays more attention on how social software can really improve the collective intelligences, then help evolve the whole society into a social brain.

Carolyn MARVIN is Frances Yates Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1988), Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (Cambridge, 1999), and articles on culture and technology, expressive nationalism, and public space. She is the recipient of a Fulbright-Nehru grant at Benares Hindu University for 2009-2010, for the study of spiritual and secular dimensions of Indian public space.

Bingchun MENG is a Lecturer in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include political economy of Chinese media and information industries, the implications of copyright regulation on communication networks and creative activities, and contextualised analysis of new media and communication technology. She has recently contributed to the book China’s Information and Communications Technology Revolution (Routledge, 2009) and published articles on the International Journal of Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication, etc.

Milton MUELLER is Professor at Syracuse University School of Information Studies. He was recently appointed XS4All Professor at the Technology University of Delft, specializing in the Security and Privacy of Internet Users, a part-time position running concurrently with his appointment at Syracuse. Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He founded the Internet Governance Project, a consortium of university scholars working on global Internet policy issues. His widely read book Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace was published by MIT Press in 2002. His new book: Networks and States: The global politics of Internet governance, will be released by MIT Press in early 2010. Mueller has been active in ICANN, WSIS civil society, and the new Internet Governance Forum.

Elisa OREGLIA is a PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Information, where she specializes in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and development in China. Her dissertation looks at the role that migrant women who return to the countryside play in the diffusion of and knowledge about ICT, with a particular focus on woman-to-woman technology transfers. Before coming to Berkeley, she lived in Beijing, where she worked as a research librarian at the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, and as a consultant for local non-profit organizations.

Dian PARAMITA is a master candidate in the double degree Global Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Fudan University. She is currently completing her second year in Shanghai. Her first degree was in Broadcasting, Telecommunication and Mass Media from Temple University. Before joining the current program, she took employment as a correspondent for the Indonesian newspaper Jawa Pos in New York City and worked as a communication consultant for the World Bank´s Conflict and Development program in Aceh, Indonesia. Her research interests include computer-mediated communication, social networks and cyber public sphere.

Monroe PRICE is Director of the Project on Global Communication Studies (PGCS) at the University of Pennsylvania, professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. Professor Price, who was dean of Cardozo School of Law from 1982 to 1991, graduated magna cum laude from Yale, where he was executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court and was an assistant to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. After his service in Washington, he was a professor at UCLA Law School from 1967-1982. He was founding director of the Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford. He has been a member of the school of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a fellow of the Media Studies Center in spring 1998. Professor Price is the director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London and Chair of the Center for Media and Communication Studies of the Central European University in Budapest. He was deputy director of California Indian Legal Services and author of Law and the American Indian. Among his many books are a treatise on cable television, Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and Its Challenge to State Power; and Television, The Public Sphere and National Identity.

MO Qian is Professor in the School of Humanities, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学文法经济学院). Prof. Mo teaches humanities, internet culture, and Marxist theory at BUPT. She has written articles and books on a variety of topics, all in Chinese, including the relationship between technology and ideology; Habermas’s theory of the public sphere; the relationship between the internet and mass culture. She is currently conducting a research project for the Government Education Ministry about university uses of the web.

XIAO Qiang is the Director of China Internet Project and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bilingual collaborative China news website. A theoretical physicist by training, Xiao Qiang studied at the University of Science and Technology of China and entered the PhD program (1986-1989) in astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He became a full time human rights activist after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Xiao was the Executive Director of the New York-based NGO Human Rights in China from 1991 to 2002 and vice-chairman of the steering committee of the World Movement for Democracy. He has spoken at each meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Genevafrom 1993 to 2001, and has testified many times before the United States Congress. He has lectured on the promotion of freedom, human rights and democracy in China in over 40 countries in Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa. Xiao has published numerous articles in the International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post and other major publications. He is also a weekly commentator for Radio Free Asia.

Jack QIU is assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He researches on information and communication technologies (ICTs), class, globalization, and late capitalism in the contexts of China and the Asian Pacific. His publications include Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2006), Working-Class Network Society (MIT Press, 2009) as well as more than a dozen research articles, chapters, and review essays, some of which have been translated into multiple languages and circulated among media policymakers globally through such organizational channels as UNESCO and UNITAR. Dr. Qiu also co-founded and moderates the Chinese Internet Research Network.

Hal ROBERTS is a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is currently doing research in the areas of Internet filtering circumvention; botnets, advertising, and other grey forms of surveillance; and automated analysis of main stream and new media. Hal has worked on the technical side of many Berkman Center projects over the years, including H2O, Weblogs at Harvard Law, and Global Voices Online.

Wendy SELTZER is a Practitioner in Residence at American University Washington College of Law, researching intellectual property, privacy, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project, promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology. She is at-large liaison to the Board of ICANN. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation. She has taught Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Antitrust, Copyright, and Information Privacy at Northeastern Law School and Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute, teaching a joint course with the Said Business School, Media Strategies for a Networked World. Previously, she was a staff attorney with online civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark, open source, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally takes a break from legal code to program (Perl and MythTV).

Xiaoyan TENG is a second-year Master's student in Communication at Peking University. She is currently a member of the research project “How do the Internet and Mobile Phones Affect Chinese Social and Political Life” supervised by Professor Boxu Yang. She received her B.A. from Peking University in 2005. Prior to pursuing her master's degree, Teng worked for advertising and PR agencies for 1.5 years in China.

Lokman TSUI (Conference Co-Organizer) is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and a Student Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. His dissertation examines transformations of journalism in a global and digital age, looking at news production of citizen media in the global context. He has co-edited the book The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age (2008) together with Dr. Joseph Turow. His research interests center around the areas of new media, global communication and journalism. He divides his time between Philadelphia, Boston, Amsterdam and Hong Kong.

Mena Ning WANG is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University. She received her M.A., B.A., Department of Information Management, Peking University. Her research Interests include Media effect on audiences’ perception of social reality (its mechanisms and consequences), social influence in computer-mediated communication (CMC).

WEN Yunchao, born in 1971 in Guangdong province, graduated from the Harbin Institute of Technology and has worked for several years as a managing editor and director of the blog section at NetEase, one of China's largest Internet portal websites. Prior to this he worked as a television news reporter, later serving as CIO for Yangcheng Evening News. In recent years he has worked as an independent news reporter, and is one of the most well-known citizen journalists in the country, having covered the Xiamen PX protests in 2007, the snow crisis in Southern China in 2008, and the more recent financial crisis in Jiangxi province, among many others; throughout this, he has provided extensive coverage on Internet censorship and analysis of the role of new media in spreading information. As an author at the Chinese liberal website Bullogger.com, Beifeng has established a very large readership. Once named as one of the Leaders of 2008 by Southern People Weekly, his personal blog, Ramblings of a Drunkard(醉人呓语), has also been nominated for the Best Chinese Blog in the annual Deutsche Welle BOBs competition.

XIN Xin is RCUK Research Fellow of China Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK. She was a visiting scholar of CGCS in 2008 and UK-China Fellow for Excellence in 2008-2009 at the National Center for Radio & TV Studies, Communication University of China. Her research interests include Chinese journalism and society, China’s ‘soft power’ and public diplomacy, and international communication. Xin is a member of the editorial board of the journal Interactions: Studies in Communications & Culture. She has published several articles about Chinese media in academic journals and books.

XUE Hong is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Institute or the Internet Policy & Law (IIPL) at Beijing Normal University. She is Research Fellow of Information Society Project of Yale Law School. Previously, she was the Associate Professor of Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Dr. Xue specializes in intellectual property law, information technology law and the Internet governance. Dr. Xue was elected as one of the Ten Nationally Distinguished Young Jurists by the China Law Society and the awardee of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the University of Hong Kong. She has published widely in both Chinese and international journals. Internationally, she works in many governmental and non-governmental organizations. She is on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Promotion of the Advanced Teaching and Research of Intellectual Property (ATRIP) and the Editorial Board of World Intellectual Property Journal. After serving as a founding member of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee for four years (2003-2007), she was appointed on the ICANN President’s Advisory Committee on Internationalized Domain Names and Nomination Committee. She is one of the founders of the Internet Users Organization in the Asia-Pacific Region.

YANG Boxu is Professor of Communication at Peking (Beijing) University. He was trained in sociology and published extensively in the area of globalization and new media communication in Chinese. His most recent research interests focus on civic engagements, civilizing process, and new media in China. These involve some major investigations of the most influential BBSs, SNSs on the Chinese Internet as well as the SMS communication among Chinese mobile phone users as far as constructing their personal communities is concerned.

YANG Guobin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. He is also a faculty in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and an affiliated faculty in the Department of Sociology of Columbia University. He is the author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (2009), and co-editor (with Ching Kwan Lee) of Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China (2007). For more information, see http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~gyang.

Peter YU holds the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and is the founding director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School. He is also a Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. In summer, he serves as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Before joining Drake University, he founded the nationally-renowned Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, at which he held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian studies.

YUAN Le is a Ph.D. Student at School of Journalism & Communication, Peking University. She received her MA degree from Loughborough University, UK. Her research focuses on new media and political communication, including the political discourse in the internet and mobile phones. Her current project is online political discussion in Chinese BBS forums.

ZHANG Lei is the co-founder of Yeeyan, the largest social translation community on the Internet. Yeeyan community translates more than 150 articles on daily basis, ranges from news stories, opinions, to scientific papers, from various languages into Chinese. Prior to Yeeyan, Lei held technical and managerial positions at Oracle, AOL and different silicon valley startups. Lei lives in the San Francisco bay area.

ZHANG Weiyu is an Assistant Professor at the Communications and New Media Programme, National University of Singapore. She received her PhD degree from Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Her research focuses on new media behaviors, including both behaviors that are associated with new media and emerging usage patterns associated with traditional media. She has published works on online political behaviors and multitasking with mass media. Her current projects include a cross-nation study on youth, new media and civic engagement and a continuous research on multitasking with new media.

Ethan ZUCKERMAN is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists. With Rebecca MacKinnon, Ethan co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations, translating content from over 30 languages, and publishing editions in twenty languages. In 2000, Ethan founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer corps that sends IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously Ethan helped found Tripod.com, one of the web's first "personal publishing" sites. He blogs at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog and lives in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, USA with his wife and a small, fluffy cat.