International advisory panel

In order to ‘see Europe from the outside’, offering a valuable perspective on our within-Europe comparisons and helping to situate the European situation in a wider context, we have established an International Advisory Panel of research experts worldwide. This will ensure that the network benefits from the latest findings and best research practice internationally. The panel consists of:
 

Professor Mimi Ito

Annenberg Center for Communication
University of Southern California
734 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90089-7725
USA

Mizuko (Mimi) Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She is part of a new research project supported by the MacArthur Foundation, “Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media,” a three year ethnographic study of kid-initiated and peer-based forms of engagement with new media. She is also conducting ongoing research on Japanese technoculture, looking at how children in Japan and the US engage with post-Pokemon media mixes. Her research on mobile phone use in Japan appears in a book she has co-edited, Personal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. She is a Research Scientist at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, and a Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University in Japan.
URL: http://www.itofisher.com/mito

Professor Lelia Green

Professor of Communications
Associate Dean, Research and Higher Degrees
Faculty of Education and Arts
Edith Cowan University
Mount Lawley WA 6050
Australia 

Lelia Green has a background in Psychology and an extensive record of Australian Research Council-funding – including being first Chief Investigator on a major research project on the Internet in Australian family life (2002-5). She is also a Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Creative Industries and Innovation (http://www.cci.edu.au) and recently received government funds for the construction and evaluation of an online community supporting heart patients and their friends, families and carers (http://heartnet.cci.ecu.edu.au). Since 2003, Lelia has been the ‘Australia’ chapter author for the part-United Nations Development Programme-funded Digital Review of Asia Pacific, currently in its third edition and was first author for a collaborative chapter on ‘Social, political and cultural aspects of ICTs: E-governance, popular participation and international politics’ (2005/6). Lelia’s major theoretical contribution is Communication, Technology and Society (2002, Sage), and she has written or co-written over fifty refereed articles and papers including topics such as Internet pornography and adolescents; Teenagers and fanfiction, and Computer gamers and LANing culture. URL: http://createc.ea.ecu.edu.au/researchers/profile.php?researcher=lgreen0

Professor Angeline Khoo

Associate Professor,
Psychological Studies Academic Group
National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
1 Nanyang Walk
Singapore 637616

Angeline Khoo obtained her PhD in social psychology from the Australian National University. She served as the chairman of the Education subcommittee of the Parents Advisory Group for the internet (PAGi) for 6 years, and played a key role in the development of its training resources. She currently serves as a member in the Film Consultative Panel, and the Community Advisory Committee for under the National Internet Advisory Committee. She is also the Principal Investigator for a research project studying the positive and negative effects of digital games on children and teenagers in Singapore.
URL: http://www.nie.edu.sg/

Professor Joseph Turow

Robert Lewis Shayon Professor
and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
3620 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
USA

Joseph Turow has conducted four national surveys in the United States that have studied such issues as parental hopes for and concerns regarding the internet; parental worries about information privacy in the new media environment and their knowledge about how to "protect" themselves; and beliefs by children compared to beliefs by parents about what information would be acceptable for children to release to marketers over the web in exchange for gifts. He has co-edited "The Wired Homestead" (MIT Press, 2003) that ranges over issues relating to the internet and the family; co-authored one article (New Media & Society, in press) about risk and institutional trust on the web; and co-authored another article (Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2003) on "a globalization approach to web privacy concerns." In 2006 MIT press will publish his new book on the social implications of database marketing.
URL: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/ascfaculty/facultyBioDetails.asp?txtUserID=jturow

Cathy Wing

Director, Community Programming
Media Awareness Network
1500 Merivale Road, 3rd Floor
Ottawa, Ontario
K2E 6Z5

Cathy Wing is a media and Internet education specialist working for Media Awareness Network (MNet), a Canadian not-for-profit education organization that has been pioneering the development of media literacy programs since 1996. The mission of the MNet is to support and encourage media education, and its widest possible integration into Canadian schools, homes and communities. Our aim is to help people, particularly children and youth, to develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the media, the techniques used in creating media products, and the media’s role and influence within society.
URL: www.media-awareness.ca

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