Michael Allen is a Lecturer in Film and Electronic Media at Birkbeck College,

University of London. His publications include the monographs Family Secrets: The
Feature Films of D.W. Griffith (BFI 1999), Contemporary US Cinema (Pearson 2003) and
the edited collection Reading CSI: Crime Television Under the Microscope (I.B. Tauris
2007). He has also published numerous articles on the history of media technologies,
and is currently completing a book on the filming and televising of the Space Race.
David Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Human Geography and leader of the Urban
Cultures & Consumption research cluster in the School of Geography at the
University of Leeds, UK. His most recent book is the second edition of The
Cybercultures Reader, co-edited with Barbara Kennedy (Routledge 2008).
Alexander Clark is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Royal Holloway University in
London. He has written a wealth of academic papers primarily concerned with
unsupervised learning of natural language, and its relevance to first language
acquisition. He won the Omphalos competition, and the Tenjinno competition,

which were two grammatical inference competitions in learning context-free gram-

mars and transductions, respectively. He is a participant in the PASCAL Network of

Excellence.
Glen Creeber is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Aberystwyth University. His

publications include Dennis Potter: Between Two Worlds, A Critical Reassessment (Mac-
millan 1998), Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen (BFI 2004) and The Singing

Detective: BFI Television Classics (BFI 2007). He has also edited The Television Genre
Book
(2001, second edition 2008), 50 Key Television Programmes (Edward Arnold 2004) and
Tele-Visions: An Introduction to Studying Television (BFI 2006).
Sean Cubitt is Director of the Media and Communications Program at The University
of Melbourne. He has published widely on media globalization, media arts and media
history. His publications include The Cinema Effect (The MIT Press 2005), EcoMedia
(Rodopi 2005) and Digital Aesthetics (Sage Publications 1998).
David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media,
Arts and Design, University of Westminster. He is the author of several books on
media and identities, including Moving Experiences (1995, second edition 2005), Web
Studies (2000, second edition 2004), Media, Gender and Identity (2002, second edition
2008) and Creative Explorations: New Approaches to Identities and Audiences (2007),
which was shortlisted for the Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award.