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About the Stanhope Centre Introduction | Associates | Contact The Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research
was developed to provide a forum for open dialogue and scholarship
related to media law and policy around the world, notably through
working very closely with LSE's Crisis States Programme. The Director
of the Centre, Professor Monroe E. Price, is Visiting Professor
at the The Stanhope Centre is increasingly working with the Annenberg School. The Stanhope Centre will be a site for graduate students from Annenberg interested in comparative research. Annenberg will support Stanhope's efforts to establish and now strengthen a Center for Media and Communications Studies at Central European University. The Centre, supplementing the global network of the Crisis States Programme by focusing on media and crisis, brings together a group of scholars, experts, lawyers, and graduate students in a variety of academic disciplines in London in order to create a laboratory for interdisciplinary communications studies. Current activities include:
Stanhope Centre is also involved in research in Asia and the Middle East as it develops joint projects in these regions. It has been commissioned by Internews to develop a database of media regulation and reform in the Middle East and Maghreb. The board members are Mark Stephens (Finers Stephens Innocent), Kurt Wimmer (Covington and Burling) and Monroe Price. The Stanhope Centre has been developing relationships with key universities in London and scholars interested in media law and policy. The Centre, in cooperation with Cardozo School of Law and the Annenberg School, has funding to identify and help develop further communications policy studies at a university in China. Building on its partnership with LSE's Crisis
States Programme, the Stanhope Centre is operated in association
with the Freedom
Forum, Markle
Foundation, and the Howard
M. Squadron Program in Media, Law and Society at the Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
Scholars in Residence Mónica Ariño Gutierrez Mónica holds a degree in Law from the Autónoma University (Madrid) and has specialised in European media and communications regulation. She has recently completed a PhD in European communications law at the European University Institute (Florence). Monica is a frequent speaker in international conferences and has participated in specialised workshops in Europe, North America and Asia. She has given visiting lectures at the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. From September she will be teaching at the MA degree program in “Media, Information and Telecommunication Policy” which has been launched by the Centre for Media and Communications Studies at CEU (Budapest), the first of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe. Recent publications include: "Beyond Broadcasting: The digital future of Public Service Broadcasting", with Christian Ahlert, Prometheus (2004); "Competition Law and Pluralism in European Digital Broadcasting: Addressing the Gaps", Communications & Strategies, (2004); "Digital War and Peace", European Public Law Journal, (2004); "From Analogue to Digital" with C. T. Marsden, in Brown and Picard (eds.) Digital Terrestrial Television in Europe, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2005). Monica is also a regular contributor to a blog that you should definitely check out if you are interested in communications regulation: Ofcomwatch. Endre Danyi (email) Endre Danyi is a sociologist, research fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. He completed his BA/MA in Sociology and Media Studies, ELTE Institute of Sociology and ELTE Media Centre, 2002; MA in Politics and Political Economy of the Post-Communist Transition, Central European University, 2003; and MSc in New Media, Information and Society (research), London School of Economics and Political Science, 2004. His research focuses on political uses of various communication technologies from photocopy machines to mobile phones. The Center for Media and Communication Studies, chaired by Professor Monroe E. Price, aims to promote innovative media and communication research throughout the Central and Eastern European region. CMCS is the co-ordinating institution of the A30 COST Action entitled 'East of West: Setting a New Eastern and Central European Media Research Agenda'. Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow is European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties values in technology law, policy and standards. He represents EFF's interests at various standards bodies and consortia, and at the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization. Doctorow is also a prolific writer who appears on the mastheads at Wired, Make and Popular Science Magazines, and whose science fiction novels have won the Campbell, Sunburst and Locus Awards and whose story 0wnz0red was nominated for the Nebula Award. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing. Born in Canada, he now lives in London, England. Mark Harvey (email) Mark Harvey has recently completed a masters and fellowship at the Kennedy School, Harvard University. At the Kennedy School, he undertook research on the role of civil society organisations in the World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) and on the relevance of the corporate social responsibility agenda (CSR) to the media sector. Until 2003 he was Director of Development for the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE). At TVE he initiated a wide range of partnerships with broadcasters, multinationals and international agencies in order to deliver the global affairs strands, Earth Report and Life, which are broadcast weekly on BBC World. He has also collaborated with a number of media support organisations (One World, Internews, Panos) on programmes devised to strengthen the contribution of the media and civil society in Africa, Asia and Latin America to economic and social development challenges. Mark Latonero Mark is a Research Scholar in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. He is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, where he received his PhD. As a researcher at the Norman Lear Center, Mark published of one the first empirical studies on internet music. His work has been covered by the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, the Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, and Variety, among others. After working in the television industry, Mark returned to academia to pursue research on the implications of ICTs and the internet on culture, entertainment media, and everyday life. His primary concern is how emerging technologies and the regulation of technological practices impact the creation and exchange of cultural products. Mark is currently writing on the technological, political, and economic dimensions of remix culture and the usage of Creative Commons licenses. Stefania Milan (email) Stefania is a PhD student at the European University Institute in Florence, working on a project on communication rights at the EU level (temporararily titled "A transnational social movement on 'communication rights'? Issue formation, agenda setting and implications for the European public sphere"). Stefania holds a degree in Communication Science from the University of Padova, where she graduated in 2003 with a thesis on the communication discourse at the World Social Forum, excerpts of which have been published online. She specialised in alternative media and participation issues. Her research interests include civil society, Civil Society Media, media policy and global communication governance. Stefania is also a stringer for the international
news agency Inter
Press Service, where she covers communication and media issues,
and collaborates occasionally with alternative magazines and websites.
She collaborates with the Amsterdam-based Institute
of Network Cultures and is involved in the Incommunicado
project. Andrea Millwood-Hargrave Andrea Millwood Hargrave was Research Director of the Broadcasting Standards Commission, now part of Ofcom. She joined the BSC in February 1991. The Commission's role was to produce codes of practice, consider audience complaints and to conduct research and monitoring on standards and fairness in broadcasting. She commissioned a varied programme of broadcasting research looking at areas within the remit. In addition she oversaw the Independent Television Commission's audience attitudinal research programme (conducted jointly with the BSC) and consulte for the Radio Authority in this area. She serves as an expert on the Council of Europe Committee looking at on line democracy issues, having previously served on a Committee considering universal access and harmful and illegal content on the Internet. Before joining the Commission, Andrea was Director of Planning (Marketing) for the first satellite broadcasting outfit in the UK and was also in at the start of cable television in the UK. She began her working career in the media for one of the commercial television companies. Research Associates William Gumede Gumede is currently a PhD
candidate at the London School of Economics as well as a Visiting
Research Fellow, Graduate School of Public and Development Management
(P&DM), Witwatersrand University. When he returns to London
in March, he will be joining us as a Scholar in Residence here
at the Centre. William was former Deputy Editor of The Sowetan
daily newspaper in Johannesburg. Between 2000 and 2004, he was
chairperson of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA).
He sits on the board of the Maputo-based NSJ (Southern African
Media Training Trust). He was one of the founders of Bush Radio,
South Africa’s first community radio station, and started
a number of community newspapers and radio stations. He was one
of the founders of the National Community Media Trust (NCMF),
on whose board he sat. He was the founder (with Ferial Haffejee)
of the Little Black Book: Directory of Black Professionals of
South Africa (updated every year at www.littleblackbook.co.za).
He won several journalism awards, including the South African
Courageous Journalism Award (1997), the FBJ’s Excellence
in Business Journalism Award (2001), and the Sanlam South African
Excellence in Financial Journalism Award (2000). In 1999, he was
selected to the United Nations Leadership Academy, United Nations
University, Amman, Jordan. William is currently editing Media Democracy and Transformation on the media in South Africa. Stanhope is collaborating with him on this endeavour- more information can be found under our publications section. Whit Mason Whit Mason has over fifteen years of experience
as a journalist, policy advisor, researcher, speechwriter and
NGO country director. His previous professional appointments include
being a political analyst with the International Crisis Group
in Prishtina (May 2001 - November 2001) and Speechwriter and Public
Affairs Advisor to UN Mission in Kosovo (May 2002 - January 2004),
amongst others. He has been the Chief of Party with Internews
Network Azerbaijan since January 2004. Eve Salomon (email) Eve Salomon has, since 2003, been Director of Legal Services and Secretary to the Radio Authority (now part of Ofcom). She joined the Radio Authority in March 1998 as head of legal and Secretary, a role which has grown to encompass the Authority's legal input into the Communications Bill process and the transition to OFCOM. She represented the Authority on the European Platform for Regulatory Authorities, a body encompassing all of Europe's broadcasting regulators. Ms. Salomon worked at the Independent Television Commission for six years prior to joining the Radio Authority, first as Sponsorship and Advertising Officer, then Head of Sponsorship, and finally as Deputy Secretary to the Commission. These various roles covered a wide range of regulatory issues, from content through to licensing, and the regulation of interactive television services. While at the ITC, Eve was a member of the policy board of the Internet Watch Foundation, the UK Internet industry's self-regulatory body. She qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and worked in private practice, specialising in small company, private client, entertainment and sponsorship law. She was Senior Associate at Holborn firm, Collyer-Bristow, when she left to join the ITC in 1992. Whilst at University in Bath, studying Sociology, Eve spent much of her time pursuing her love of drama. She ran the student university drama group and directed a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Having been born in Japan, raised in New York City, and now settled in London, she has international interests and has worked to provide expertise in media regulatory questions with transitional societies. Mareike Schomerus (email) Mareike Schomerus is a part-time research student
in DESTIN, working on media and humanitarianism. Having graduated
from Columbia University School of Journalism, she works as a
freelance journalist in television, radio and print, covering
issues from the local to the international. Former Scholars in Residence Gwendolyn Carpenter (email) is the policy strategist for the Creative Commons UK project. Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work. She also has recently joined Gov3 as a consultant. Prior she led The Work Foundation’s iSociety progamme, the UK’s largest non-Government funded inter-disciplinary research project examining the impact of technology on public policy, the economy and society. iSociety famously pioneered ethnographic approaches to understanding technology usage, and Gwendolyn specialises in applying these insights to public policy, government and developing new business opportunities. Gwendolyn completed a full-time Master's programme in Media and Communications at the LSE, focussing on New Media, IT Innovation and their potential social uses and effects.Hernan Galperin is
an Assistant Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication
at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His work
focuses on comparative media policy, in particular digital broadcasting
regulation, international trade in audiovisual products, and regulatory
reforms in Latin America. He is currently working on a book that
compares the transition to digital TV in the US and the UK, under
contract with Cambridge University Press, and spent the July,
2002 at Stanhope doing research for the book. Heiko Neuhoff (email) read Law at the University of Hamburg, with a focus on Information and Communication law. Since 2003 he has been working on his PhD and participated in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy" (PCMLP) at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Wolfson College, University of Oxford in 2004. His work is centred on the function of public service broadcasting in the knowledge society, specifically on an analysis of the dynamic technological development and fragmentation of society considered against British and German broadcasting regulations under European Law. Helena Rocha (email) is a human rights specialist at the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Organization of American States. The Office of the Rapporteur is a permanent unit that is functionally autonomous and operates within the legal framework of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Prior she was a fellow at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) from July 2003–July 2004. The IACHR is the part of the Inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights. Within the IACHR responsibilities are the analysis of individual petitions on human rights violations in the member states of the OAS; promotional activities and on-site visits. She has also recently completed her Masters Degree on International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex. Her research areas are community radios, access to information, defamation laws and violence against media workers. Harmeet Sawhney is Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research focuses on the processes that shape the development of telecommunications infrastructure and other large-scale networks such as canals, railroads, and highways. One stream of work examines the role of metaphors in the network development process. It looks at how metaphors serve as vehicles for the transfer of conceptual frameworks from one technology to another and also how they facilitate action in the face of all the uncertainties that mark the network development process. Another stream of work examines issues related to universal access that call for reconciliation between the ideals of democracy and the realities of the situation on the ground. It seeks to understand how America marshals its political will, emotions, and resources to attain the egalitarian ideal of universal access by studying the evolution of universal education, universal access to public libraries, rural electrification, universal medical coverage, and universal telephone service. His research articles appear in Telecommunications Policy; Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media; Media, Culture, & Society; Info; Entrepreneurship & Regional Development; The Information Society and book chapters in edited volumes. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of The Information Society. Manolita Wiehl has an MSc in New Media, Information and Society from the London School of Economics and a BA in Visual Communications from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design. Her masters dissertation ( 'A successful failure? The EURO CITI project, e-Democracy & the European Union') analyzed the implementation of new communication strategies and technologies in the public sector. Her interests lie in the field of communications as a means for the development and empowerment of the citizen. She has recently worked with the Center for Media & Communication Studies (CMCS) at the Central European University in Budapest as an Assistant Project Manager and previously trained with the European Commission at the Official Publisher of the European Communities, in Brussels. If you are interested in becoming a scholar in residence, please email us. For information on internship opportunities in media policy research, contact Susan Abbott. General contact information: |
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