Angela Schorr is President of Media Psychology and Educational Psychology at the University of Siegen, Germany. Her main focuses of research are Empathy & Emotional Intelligence; Advertising; Media Entertainment & Information; Psychological Autonomy & Reactance; Health Communication & Public Health; Reality Cognition & Presence; Youth Media Research; Media Use & Media Effects Research; Cognition & Emotion.

She has been President of the European Communication Association (ECA) from 1998 to 2003.

Jan Servaes is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia; Editor-in-Chief of ‘Communication for Development and Social Change: A Global Journal’ (Hampton Press), Associate Editor of ‘Telematics and Informatics: An international journal on telecommunications and internet technology’ (Pergamon/Elsevier), and Editor of the Hampton Book Series ‘Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity’.
He has been President of the European Consortium For Communications Research (ECCR) and Vice-President of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), in charge of Academic Publications and Research, from 2000 to 2004.

Pertti Hurme is a communication researcher and teacher, now working as Professor of Organizational Communication and PR at the Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He also serves as the Head of the Department of Communication.

His current research interests focus on communication in networked organizations and the use and meaning of communication technologies in organizations. Recent articles deal with PR and the Internet, network organizations, mobile communication and work practices, and organizations in virtual worlds. In 2005 he published the book Viestinnästä tietoon: tiedon luominen työyhteisössä (From Communication to Knowledge: Creation of Knowledge in Work Communities) with co-authors Maija-Leena Huotari and Tarja Valkonen.

He is Past President of the European Communication Association (2003-2005) and Past Vice President of ECREA (2005-2008).