JOURNAL OF G LOBAL M ASS C OMMUNICATION I NTERIM E DITOR David Demers E DITORIAL B OARD MEMBERS Rosental Alves, University of Texas (Austin), USA Ralph D Berenger, American University (Cairo), Egypt Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State University, USA Joseph Man Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Clifford Christians, University of Illinois (Urbana- Champaign), USA Anne Cooper-Chen, Ohio University (Athens), USA James Curran, Goldsmiths College, UK Mark Deuze, Indiana University (Bloomington), USA Sharon Dunwoody, University of Wisconsin, USA Peter Gross, University of Tennessee, USA Cees Hamelink, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Yahya Kamalipour, Purdue University Calumet, USA Jeffery Klaehn, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Paolo Mancini, Perugia University, Italy Srinivas Melkote, Bowling Green State University, USA John C. Merrill, University of Missouri (Columbia), USA Luiz Motta, University of Brasilia, Brazil Erik Neuveu, Institutd’Etudes Politiques de Rennes, France Hillel Nossek, College of Management Academic Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel Francis Nyamnjoh, Council for the Development of Social Science Research, Senegal Paul Parsons, Elon University, USA Barbara Pfetsch, Hohenheim University, Germany Tomasz Pludowski, Stanford University, USA Gertrude Robinson, McGill University, Canada Holli A. Semetko, Emory University, USA Jan Servaes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Raka Shome, London School of Economics, UK Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Nancy Snow, California State University, USA Majid Tehranian, University of Hawaii, USA Leo van Audenhove, Free University Brussels, Belgium Elena Vartanova, State University of Moscow, Russia Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University, UK Silvio Waisbord, Academy for Educational Development, USA Wayne Wanta, University of Missouri (Columbia), USA Gabriela Warkentin, Iberoamericana University, Mexico Denis Wu, Boston University, USA Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania, USA