The European Information Society: A Reality Check

Jean-Claude Burgelman (PhD) is project leader at IPTS (Institute for prospective technology studies, one of the Joint Research Centres of the EU, in Sevilla, Spain). He is on leave as professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) Nico Carpentier (PhD) is a media sociologist working at the Department of Communication Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Cees J. Hamelink (PhD) is Professor of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam, and Professor of Media, Religion and Culture at the Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Francois Heinderyckx (PhD) teaches media sociology and political communication at the University of Brussels (ULB) Peter Johnston (PhD) has worked with the Information Society DG of the European Commission since 1988 Caroline Pauwels (PhD) is attached to the Communication Department of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and the present Director of SMIT, a research center focusing on media, information and telecommunication Luisella Pavan-Woolfe graduated in Political Science from the University of Padova. She taught in that university in the faculty of Anglo-American Law Robert G. Picard (PhD), VTTS Professor of Media Economics and manager of the Media Group, Business Research and Development Centre, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland Paschal Preston (PhD) is Professor at the School of Communications and Director of the Centre for Society Technology and Media (STeM) at the Dublin City University in Ireland Andrea Ricci is currently completing the PhD at the Catholic University of Brussels (KUB) Jan Servaes (PhD) is President of the European Consortium for Communications Research (ECCR), Vice-President of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), in charge of Research and Academic Publications, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (KUB) Brian Trench (PhD) is Head of the School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland