He produces the popular website about media and identities – www.Theory.org.

uk,
and has pioneered the use of creative and visual research methods, for which he has
created the hub at www.ArtLab.org.uk.
Matt Hills is a Reader in Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Journalism,
Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of books such as

Fan Cultures (Routledge 2002) and How to Do Things with Cultural Theory (Hodder-
Arnold 2005). Matt’s current projects include a book on BBC Wales’ Doctor Who for IB

Tauris, and a study of the film Blade Runner for the Wallflower Press ‘Cultographies’
book series. He has published widely on cult film and television, and media fandom.
Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the

Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison. She is the author or editor of several books on media history, including:

Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable (1990); Radio Voices: American
Broadcasting 1922–1952 (1997); Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the
United States, 2nd edn (2006); The Radio Reader: Essays in the Cultural History of Radio
(2001); The Television History Book (2003); and NBC: America’s Network (2007). She is
currently at work on a history of the flows of transatlantic influence between US and
British broadcasters during radio and television’s formative years, and their impact on
the production of global culture.
Sebastian Kaempf is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Political Science and
International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. His general research
interests include the relationship between ethics and the laws of war, critical security
studies, American warfare (the regionalization of), peacekeeping, and the impact of
New Media technology on contemporary security.
Gérard Kraus is a doctoral candidate at Aberystwyth University, Wales. He holds
an MA in Science Fiction Studies from the University of Liverpool. His research

interests include Japanese Visual Culture, Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Audio-
visual Media and Gaming. His previous publications are on Luxembourg’s films and

national identity and the history of Science Fiction Film.

Royston Martin is an academic, journalist and documentary film-maker with research
interests in the digital media, the role of journalism in mediating democracy and
experimental factual film. His work has been broadcast by the BBC, NBC and CNN
among many others. His recent academic study of Indymedia is published in Making
Our Media: Mapping Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere (Hampton Press
2008).
Last Moyo is an Assistant Professor in the department of Media, Peace and Conflict
Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea. He worked as a
Graduate Teaching Assistant at Aberystwyth University, where he studied for his PhD
and teaches in the dual MA programme with the UN University for Peace in Costa
Rica. He has also lectured for three years in the Journalism and Media Studies
Department at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), specializ-
ing in media theory and print journalism courses.