ADVISORY BOARD

Oscar H. Gandy Jr.
Ian R. Kerr
Robin Mansell

Oscar H. Gandy Jr.

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. professor emeritus the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of The Panoptic Sort and Beyond Agenda Setting, two books that explore issues of information and public policy. A recent book, Communication and Race, explores the structure of media and society, as well as the cognitive structures that reflect and are reproduced through media use. A co-edited volume, Framing Public Life, examines the role of media in shaping public understanding. A book in progress, If It Weren't for Bad Luck, will examine the ways in which probability and its representation affect the lives of different groups in society.

More details: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/ogandy/

Ian R. Kerr

As Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law, & Technology, Ian Kerr is Canada's leading authority on how legal and ethical issues intersect with new and emerging technologies. Ian plays a significant role in the development of national and international laws in e-commerce, privacy policy and digital copyright reform. He has advised various Canadian agencies on legal policy for online activities, and has served as a Canadian delegate to the United Nations' Special Working Group on e-Commerce, a project of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. Ian teaches at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where he co-designed a new graduate program in law and technology. He holds cross-appointments to the Faculty of Medicine, the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Information Studies. He has won numerous awards for teaching excellence.

Ian recently completed a large collaborative research project, On the Identity Trail, a multi-disciplinary project supported by one of the largest ever grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and which studies the impact of information and authentication technologies on identity and anonymity. He also co-leads An Examination of Digital Copyright, a large private sector grant from Bell Canada and the Ontario Research Network in Electronic Commerce examining the implications of copyright reform on Canadian values including privacy and freedom of expression. With his background in philosophy, technology and private law, Ian has published numerous articles and papers and has edited and contributed to several books and journals on the legal implications of doing business online, including the Canadian Business Law Journal and the Electronic Commerce Research Journal. He has also contributed scholarly articles and chapters in several books on a range of other subjects, including privacy, surveillance studies, cyberspace law, nanotechnology, bioethics, contract law, information ethics, and the philosophy of law, and has lectured world-wide on these topics.

Robin Mansell

Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media and the Internet and Head of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is internationally known for her work on the social, economic, and technical issues arising from new technologies, especially in the computer and telecommunication industries. She has examined the integration of new technologies into society, the interaction between engineering design and the structure of markets, and the sources of regulatory effectiveness and failure. Her current research is devoted to understanding interactions between electronic and social networks in the creation and distribution of knowledge. She has contributed to policy discussion and formulation concerning the liberalization of the telecommunication sector, the development of electronic commerce, the governance of universal access, and developing country responses to globalization and the potential roles of information and communication technologies. She serves as an academic Governor of the LSE and as a Trustee of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. She holds honorary professorships at the LINK Centre, Witwatersrand University, South Africa and at the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. She is Past President of IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communications Research) and has served as a consultant to UN agencies, the OECD, ministries of governments and leading companies, and is a member of the Boards of several overseas research institutes. Her recent books are The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies (ed) Oxford University Press 2007; Trust and Crime in Information Societies (ed) Edward Elgar Publishing 2005, and Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity (with W E Steinmueller) Oxford University Press 2000.

Faculty Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/whosWho/robinMansell.htm