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Eric Freedman

Eric Freedman

Maryland Institute College of Art, United States of America

Dr. Eric Freedman is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Maryland Institute College of Art. He is the author of Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media (Routledge, 2023), The Persistence of Code in Game Engine Culture (Routledge, 2020) and Transient Images: Personal Media in Public Frameworks (Temple University Press, 2011). He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Creative Media Research and the Journal of Communication and Media Studies and has been an active member of the Advisory Board of the Communication and Media Studies Research Network. Dr. Freedman holds a Ph.D. from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.

Jesús Miguel Flores Vivar

Jesús Miguel Flores Vivar

Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

PhD from Complutense University of Madrid. With more than two decades of experience as a professor, researcher, visiting scholar, and lecturer at various universities: UOC, Nebrija, and Complutense de Madrid (Spain); Università di Roma, Università degli Studi Firenze, Università di Perugia, and Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy); UNESP (Brazil); UPB (Colombia); and UNMSM (Peru), among others. In 2015, he was an Invited Professor at the RCC, Harvard University. He has been Principal Investigator and has led around twenty research and innovation projects. He is the author, co-author, and editor of more than twenty-five books, as well as a hundred articles in indexed journals specializing in communication, journalism, internet, and technology. He was Co-founder and Coordinator (2005-08) of the Observatorio de Periodismo en Internet (Internet Journalism Observatory) and a promoter of the ITC Network (Interdisciplinary Research Network on Technology and Communication, Cyberculture, and New Audiovisual Genres). He is an expert member of the Spanish Communication Research Association (AE-IC).

Editorial Board

  • Ana Lucía de Vega Martín, International University of Valencia, Spain
  • Barry King, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Carlos del Valle, University of La Frontera, Chile
  • Carmen Cristofol Rodríguez, University of Málaga, Spain
  • Cecilia Lazzeretti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Charu Maithani, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Dechun Zhang, Leiden University, The Netherlands
  • Félix Ortega-Mohedano, University of Salamanca, Spain
  • Fernando Olivares-Delgado, University of Alicante, Spain
  • Fiona Peterson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Grettel Rodríguez Bazán, Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas, Cuba
  • Guadalupe Aguado Guadalupe, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
  • Hada Sánchez González, University of Seville, Spain
  • Javier Fernández del Moral, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
  • Jo Davies, Plymouth University, UK
  • Kerric Harvey, George Washington University, USA
  • Luis Fernando Bolaños Gordillo, Intercultural University of Chiapas, Mexico
  • Marcus Breen, Boston University, USA
  • María Loreto Urbina Montaña, University of Derby, UK
  • Michael Hofmann, Florida Atlantic University, USA
  • Nathalie Wesseling, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
  • Néstor Julián Restrepo Echavarría, EAFIT University, Colombia
  • Piero Dominici, University of Perugia, Italy
  • Rodrigo Eduardo Botelho-Francisco, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
  • Rossy Lorena Laurencio Meza, University of Veracruz, Mexico
  • Rubén Aroca Jácome, University of Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • Sandra Flores Guevara, Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Mexico
  • Shujen Wang, Emerson College, USA
  • Taiwo Ehineni, Harvard University, USA
  • Tamsyn Gilbert, Common Ground Media Lab, USA

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