ABSTRACT

JOHN CLARKE is on the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Open University, UK… NORMAN K.DENZIN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, USA…CHRISTINE GERAGHTY is a full-time officer for NALGO and lectures in Film Studies for the BFI and Birkbeck College, London, UK…HERMAN GRAY teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA…MICHAEL GREEN is head of the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, UK…STUART HALL is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK. He has most recently co-edited two of the four volumes of the Open University’s Sociology Course on Modernity and a special issue of the journal Ten-8… JOKE HERMES is in the Department of Communication at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands…SUREN LALVANI teaches in the Humanities Division of PennState University, Harrisburg, PA, USA…KIRSTEN MARTHE LENTZ is a doctoral student in the American Civilization Program at Brown University, USA… ANGELA McROBBIE lectures in Sociology at Ealing College of Higher Education. Her latest book is Feminism and Youth Culture…JANET NEWMAN teaches in the Department of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, UK…SEAN NIXON is a Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of North London, UK…MAURICIO TENORIO teaches at Stanford University, USA.