Stuart Cunningham is Professor and Head, School of Media and Journalism, Queensland University of Technology. He is an author or editor of several books and monographs on topics such as Australian media, cultural policy, global television and “borderless” education, the most recent of which are New Patterns in Global Television (with John Sinclair and Elizabeth Jacka, Oxford University Press), Australian Television and International Mediascapes (with Elizabeth Jacka, Cambridge University Press) and The Media in Australia: Industries, Texts, Audiences (with Graeme Turner, Allen & Unwin). He is a Deputy Director of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy.
Josephine Fox has extensive fieldwork experience in China, where she has been completing her PhD in History.
Gay Hawkins is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of New South Wales, Sydney. She has published a book on the invocation of “community” in arts policy, From Nimbin to Mardi Gras: Constructing Community Arts (Allen & Unwin), as well as numerous papers on television, value and difference, and transformations in public service broadcasting.
Chalinee Hirano is a PhD candidate in Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
Kee Pookong is Director of the Centre for Asia–Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne.
Glen Lewis is Associate Professor in International Communication at the University of Canberra and Professor in the Graduate School of Bangkok University. He is also adjunct Professor in the School of Communication at UNITEC Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. He is co-author of Critical Communication and Communication Traditions in 20th Century Australia.
Tina Nguyen is a postgraduate student in the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Manas Ray is a Fellow of Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. While a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, during 1996–98, he researched Indian diasporas in Australia. He has authored several articles and book chapters on Indian media, cultural theory and ethics and is currently researching the making of postcolonial democracy in India.
John Sinclair is Professor in the Department of Communication, Language and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne. His research on the internationalisation of the television and advertising industries, with particular attention to Latin America and Asia, has been published widely. His most recent books are Latin American Television: A Global View (Oxford, 1999) and New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision, co-edited with Elizabeth Jacka and Stuart Cunningham (Oxford, 1996).
Audrey Yue is Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne. Her PhD was on postcolonial Hong Kong cinema and her current research areas include Asian media, new technology, queer theory and diaspora cultures. She has published in the Asian Journal of Communication, Meanjin, Journal of Homosexuality and New Formations.