Kate Crawford (with Justine Lloyd) was convenor of the Technologies of Listening workshop and (with Tanja Dreher and Catherine Thill) of the Methodologies to capture listening workshop.  Kate is an Associate Professor at the new Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communications at the University of New South Wales. Her work is in cultural research and media, with interests spanning across new media forms, constructions of youth and adulthood, and sound technologies. She is the author of Adult Themes (2006) which won the Manning Clark National Cultural Award. She is commencing an ARC Discovery project on mobile media and youth culture with Professor Gerard Goggin. Go to Kate’s webpage.

Mark Gibson is convenor of the Cultural Literacies Node of the ARC Cultural Research Network and of the Conflict, Democracy and Listening workshop. He is chair of the Graduate Communications and Media Studies Program at Monash University. Mark’s most recent publication is Culture and Power – A History of Cultural Studies (2007), a study of theories and histories of the concept of power in cultural studies. He is also Editor of Continuum – Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Go to Mark’s webpage.

Gerard Goggin (with Rosemary Kayess) was convenor of the Disability, Democracy, Media and Listening workshop. He is Professor of Digital Communication and Deputy Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Gerard has a long-standing interest in disability research and policy, especially related to technology and media. WIth Christopher Newell he is author of Digital Disability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) as well as many other papers and special editions on technology, disability and society. Their second book  Disability in Australia: Exposing a Social Apartheid (2005) was awarded the Human Rights and Equal Opporunities Commission Arts Non-Fiction prize. Gerard is also editor of the journal Media International Australia. Go to Gerard’s webpage.

Gay Hawkins (with Tanja Dreher) was convenor of the Media and the Politics of Listening in Multicultural Societies workshop. She is Associate Professor in the School of English, Media and the Performing Arts at the University of NSW. Gay’s research is in the areas of media and cultural studies, poststructuralism and political theory, and biopolitics and nature culture relations. She is currently completing an ARC Linkage project on ‘The Special Broadcasting Service and Australian Cultural Democracy’. In 2006 she published ‘The Ethics of Waste: how we relate to rubbish’. Current research projects include an investigation into the relations between publics and communities. Go to Gay’s webpage

Rosemary Kayess (with Gerard Goggin) was convenor of the Disability, Democracy, Media & Listening workshop. She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of New South Wales in international human rights law and Acting Director of the Disability Studies and Research Centre. Rosemary also chairs the Management Committee of the NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre. She has had extensive involvement in the United Nations (UN) development process for the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and was a member of the Australian Government delegation to the General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on the Convention in New York. Go to Rosemary’s webpage

Juan Salazar (with Penny O’Donnell) was convenor of the Listening Practices workshop. He is located in the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. Juan researches in the areas of media anthropology, indigenous and community media, social change and participatory communication and mapping. In particular, his work explores the uses and impacts of new information technologies, the interface of society and technology, intersections of society, the environment and the media and cultural representation. Go to Juan’s webpage http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr/people/researchers/dr_juan_francisco_salazar