Reconstruction 10.2 (2010)
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Contributors
Kirsty Best is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University. This work is the product of a four year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Recent articles have appeared in Information, Communication and Society, the International Journal of Cultural Studies and the Canadian Journal of Communication. Dr Best also runs the ME/CFS Centre in Second Life, funded by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Government, for awareness and support of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. [article]
Scott Francisco is a designer, educator and practicing cultural theorist in New York City. He is currently the Director of Discovery at HLW International, New York's longest-established architecture firm. He is the founder of Pilot-Projects a multi-disciplinary cooperative that designs spaces and infrastructure for cultural sustainability and transformation. He has taught, spoken and written widely on architecture, design, culture and technology. His recent thesis research at MIT is titled "Useable Space: Culture Versus Technique in the Pursuit of Design." [article]John V. Knapp is professor of English at Northern Illinois University, with a joint appointment in modern literature and in teacher training. He holds two doctorates, the first in English from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1971) and the second from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in Educational Psychology (2000). His research has included the disciplines of modern literatures, literary theory, contemporary psychology, and the teaching of literatures in English. Prof. Knapp has co-edited or written four books and over 50 articles and reviews. His most recent book is Learning From Scant Beginnings: English Professor Expertise. University of Delaware Press, 2008. [article]
Lori M. Martindale is a PhD candidate at EGS U, in Switzerland. Lori is a writer, based in the US, where she teaches writing and literature classes at Whatcom Community College. [Review #1], [Review #2]
Marc A. Ouellette is Managing Editor of Reconstruction.
David Prescott-Steed teaches Art History & Theory and Contemporary Visual Culture, at Monash University in Victoria, Australia, and enjoys experimental music. Recent publications include: "Epidermis Deep: Glabrousness and Privatised Survival Strategies in the Late Modern Age" (2009), in ESC: English Studies in Canada, “Skin”, Vol. 34, No. 1, University of Alberta pp. 125-42; "Dérive and Defamiliarisation: Seeking Alternative Solutions amid Institutional Architecture" (2009), in Subjectivity, Creativity and the Institution (Christopher Crouch, Ed.), Boca Raton, Florida; BrownWalker Press, pp. 63-72. [article]
Carrie Sieh is a painter and mixed media artist recently relocated to Miami, FL. Her work revolves around themes of economics, gender, technology, and nature. She has shown her work in San Francisco and other cities throughout her home state of California, as well as in Washington state. Her B.A. in Art is from the University of California at Santa Cruz. [Image]
Jason Tocci is an assistant professor of communication at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. He studies digital media and visual culture, including video games and graphic design. He blogs about his research interests at Geek Studies. [article]
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