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PREFACE
shared, between the North and South but also within the locales where
we wrote. We recognize our privileged position as observers and critics
and hope that we have been responsible in our use of these means to
bring attention to some of the most urgent questions surrounding global
communications and media policy.
We are thankful to Sarah Edwards for her prompting Katharine to
write a book on media policy, and for her continued patience and support.
Without John Downing’s introducing us to each other, we would
probably have not met just yet and this would have been a different book
or would not have been written at all. Our colleagues Andrew Calabrese
(University of Colorado, Boulder), Cynthia Chris (City University
of New York-Staten Island), Myria Georgiou (University of Leeds),
David Hutchison (Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland), Vincent
Mosco (Queens University), Srirupa Roy (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst), Leslie Shade (Concordia University), and Yuezhi Zhao (Simon
Fraser University) have given us insightful comments on earlier drafts.
Katharine has benefited from a British Academy Research Grant in
2004 and from a McGill Centre of Research and Training on Women
visiting fellowship the same year, during which period research into
Canadian communications policies was conducted. She would also like
to thank Ms Mary Damianakis (International Mediation, Canada) for
support throughout the research leave. Paula is grateful for the support
of Dean Janet Rifkin and her Chair Michael Morgan, as well as for
research grants from the Centre for Public Policy and Administration
(CPPA) and the College of Social and Behavioural Sciences (CSBS) at
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The Healy Faculty Research
Grant also allowed Paula to attend the World Summit on the Information
Society in Tunis. Sumati Nagrath (University of Northampton) provided
enormous help indexing the book. Daniel Kim and Elizabeth Gonzalez
(both from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst) were helpful in
providing research assistance for the completion of the manuscript.
We also thank our friends and family who provided support and sanity
through this long process, especially Nerissa Balce, Dolon Chakravartty,
Stephanie Luce and Mary and George Sarikakis. Last but never least, we
extend our warmest thanks to our life companions Gianpaolo Baiocchi
and Alexander Bismarck for without their faith in us a great deal of our
achievements would have not tasted as good!
Paula Chakravartty and Katharine Sarikakis
October 2005