PuhujatProfessor Joseph D. Straubhaar
His primary teaching, research and writing interests are in global media, international communication and cultural theory, information societies and the digital divide in the U. S. and other countries, and global television production and flow. His graduate teaching includes media theory, global media, comparative media systems, international telecommunications systems, Latin American media, and research methods. His undergraduate teaching covers the same range plus introduction to mass communication and the information society. He does research in Brazil, other Latin America countries, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has taken student groups to Latin America and Asia. He has done seminars abroad on media research, television programming strategies, and telecommunications privatization. He is on the editorial board for the Howard Journal of Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, and Revista INTERCOM. His book, World Television from Global to Local, will be published by Sage in May 2007. A revised 5th edition of his textbook with Bob LaRose, "Media Now," will be published in June 2007. He has an edited book, The Persistence of Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class and the Digital Divide in Austin, Texas, forthcoming from University of Texas Press. He had an edited book with Othon Jambeiro, Políticas de informação e comunicação, jornalismo e inclusão digital: O Local e o Global em Austin e Salvador (Information and communication policy, journalism and digital inclusion: The local and global in Austin and Salvador). Federal University of Bahia Press: 2005. He has published numerous articles and essays on global media, digital inclusion, Brazilian television, Latin American media, comparative analyses of new television technologies, media flow and culture, and other topics appearing in a number of journals, edited books, and elsewhere Recent articles and book chapters include
For further information, please visit: rtf.utexas.edu/faculty/straubhaar/ Commentaries by Professor Terhi Rantanen and Professor Thomas Tufte
Dr Thomas Tufte
Mike Sandbothe
Selected publications: Dorte Dahlin
In 1992 Dorte Dahlin worked as an Assistant Professor for architect Daniel Libeskind during the workshop An Observatory of Premonition - touching the future of Copenhagen - at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Dorte Dahlin was a member of the Committee for Art in Public Space, dealing with Art, democracy and the public space, Royal Academy Council 1996-2000. As a transnational cultural player and developer, Dorte Dahlin participated and initiated several projects. Dahlin curated (and participated in) the major cultural event Overlaps. North-Southeast, at the Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates, in 2000. This led to Dahlin becoming an official Danish curator and provided the opportunity to introduce 'Superflex' by Moonchannel; an internet based tv-studio at the Sharjah V. International Biennial, 2001. These projects compelled the Danish ministries of Foreign Affairs and Culture to draw up a cultural exchange project between Denmark and Sharjah, later named the NOMAD ACADEMY- the project headed by Dorte Dahlin and former Rector, Dr. Phil. Else Marie Bukdahl, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Alain Apaloo
From Africa to Europe In 1999 Alain moved to Denmark in order to study at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and to further develop his technique and his abilities as a composer in all the different genres of music that he loved so much: blues, jazz, afrojazz and bluesrock. With his rhythmically and melodically different approach to music, his drive, joy and dedication to his work, Alain soon found himself involved in many projects with such musicians like French jazz flutist Marianne Bitran, saxophone player Jakob Dinesen and Danish crossover jazz vocalist Thulla (only to name a few) and playing different festivals in Denmark and Sweden, including the prestigious Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Since he graduated from the Copenhagen Rhythmic Music Conservatory in 2005, Alain has worked at the city’s oldest and most original blues place, Mojo’s Blues Bar, playing regularly with his own blues band Mezzy Slide & the Crew, solo nights and with the Mojo Blues Jam Band. Thanks to his initiative the bar has started a successful new tradition of African Night inviting different African musicians to play with Alain and his band Twin Tribe each month. Alain’s undeniable musical talent as a songwriter, singer, guitar and bass player did of course not go unnoticed and since 2006 he has been the latest addition to the Kenn Lending Blues Band, one of Denmark’s finest and most established blues bands. Nana Gravesen
She gives Feldenkrais seminars in awareness through movement and offers individual lessons in functional integration. Nana’s extensive experience in facilitating a better and more intelligent use of the self in action, has proven successful in rehabilitation, injury prevention and in actors’ education. She has successfully used the feldenkrais method of learning with infants and elderly, with people in pain and medical professionals, with “desk workers” and artists. She teaches developmental movement and body awareness to educational professionals. Other credits include “The Art of Moving”-programme for the teaching staff at the Royal Academy of Art, School of Architecture”. School of Stage Arts, Vordingborg and at the School of Relaxation and psychomotor Therapy, Randers. Studies of Japanology - BAhrs. degree from SOAS, University of London, later at FU, Berlin –and east asian martial art techniques; Education at The National Film School of Denmark and 12 years in film productions. Nana started her Feldenkrais practice in Berlin 1990. Since 1999 she maintains a private Feldenkrais practice in Copenhagen. Joachim Hamou
Up coming is a 4 month work where the stage of Uppsala Stadsteater is put in disposition for a performance and seminar (Dr. K) with the purpose of researching perceptions (www.uppsalastadsteater.nu). Joachim Hamou’s art is based on a long media experience and therefore refer much to common medias and situationistic strategies
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Professor Joseph D. Straubhaar is the Amon G. Carter Centennial Professor of Communications in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Associate Director for International Programs of the Telecommunication and Information Policy Institute at the University of Texas. He was the Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies within the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, 2003-2006.
Dr Thomas Tufte is a professor in Communication at Roskilde University (2004-). MA in cultural sociology (1989) and Ph.D in communication from University of Copenhagen (1995). Tufte?s research covers audience studies, global media studies, diaspora and media use, health communication and communication for development and social change . Research projects include media ethnographical studies of low income women's use of telenovelas in Brazil (1990-1995, see Tufte 2000); media use and identity formation amongst families of different ethnic and class origin in Porto Alegre Brazil (1996-2000, see Tufte 2006); media consumption, identity and globalisation amongst young ethnic minorities in Copenhagen (1999-2002, see Tufte 2003); and young peoples reception and use of HIV/AIDS campaigns in South Africa (2001-2005). Prof. Tufte has lectured at universities in 15+ countries, served as the UNESCO Chair of Communication at Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain (spring semester 2003), serves on the editorial boards, advisory boards or as associate editor to 7 journals of communication and culture, serves as reviewer for a number of journals in audience studies, global media studies, diaspora and media use, health communication and communication for development and social change. He is on the council of IAMCR (Int'l Association of Media and Comm. Researchers). For further info, see 
Mike Sandbothe is co-founder of the new trans-academic branch of media philosophy/médiologie and one of the main proponents of philosophical pragmatism in Europe. He held professorships in Berlin, Bielefeld, Essen, Jena, Stanford and is recently working as Research Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine at Aalborg University (Denmark,
Dorte Dahlin, visual artist, founder and general co-ordinator of Nomad Academy Copenhagen, was born 1955, lives and works in Copenhagen. She was educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1978-82 and became one of the central figures in the break-through of New Image/Wild Painting in Denmark. She is represented at many Danish art museums and in private collections and has received several grants. The past 10 years she has been working in the field of site-specific art, sculpting in public spaces in all aspects of the word.
From childhood on Alain Apaloo played in traditional ensembles in his home country Togo, West Africa. Wanting to follow in the priest’s footsteps, who gave Alain his first guitar lesson, he joined the Catholic seminar for priests, where he was introduced to music theory and choir conduction. After he had moved back to the capital Lome, Alain met the Togolese blues singer Jimi Hope and played with him for several years. He also formed his own afro-rock-fusion band Exhaust Pipe playing own original compositions, practiced jazz standards and further developed his bass play. Political and economic instability in Togo forced Alain to move to Accra in Ghana, where he played the guitar and bass in local bands and after one year toured Europe, the U.S. and Canada with the Ghanaian reggae musician Kojo Antwi. During this time he also continued his ambitions within jazz and collaborated with Swiss jazz drummer Gabriel Schiltknecht and Hackbrett player Roland Schiltknecht on several projects.
Nana Gravesen, movement educator, Feldenkrais Practitioner, GC since 1989. Over the years she has learned with a number of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ closest assistants as well as obtained a wide experience in related disciplines.
Joachim Hamou is a visual artist living in
Copenhagen. He is primarily working with video, but he
is involved in many collaborations. Notably the
creation of the first artist driven tv-station, tv-tv
(www.tv-tv.dk).