About the Guest Editors /

Dr Philip Drake, Conference Co-Chair [link]

Dr Philip Drake is Lecturer in Film & Media at University of Stirling. His publications include numerous articles on stardom and celebrity. These include recent chapters in Andrew Willis (ed.) (2004) Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond, Manchester University Press, and Frank Krutnik (ed.) (2003) Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader, Routledge, as well as forthcoming articles in Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert (eds.) Heroes in a Global World, Hampton Press, Susan Homes and Sean Redmond (eds.) Celebrity Culture, London: Routledge, and Susan Homes and Sean Redmond (eds.) Fame Culture, London: Sage. He is currently finishing a book on the political economy of stardom in contemporary Hollywood cinema. He has also written on and researched in the areas of media economics, cultural policy and city development.

[e] email@philip.drake.net .

Dr Andy Miah, Conference Co-Chair[link]

Andy Miah is Lecturer in Media, Bioethics, and Cyberculture at University of Paisley. His research is informed by an interest in applied ethics, technology, and culture and he has published broadly in the areas of cyberculture, sport, and bioethics. Recent publications include the Journal of Medical Ethics, CTHEORY, Culture Machine and Research in Philosophy, Technology. He has also written for newspapers, including The Observer, and the Times Higher Education Supplement. He has refereed book proposals for Routledge and journal articles for Theory, Culture and Society, Cultural Politics, IRB, Genomics, Society & Policy, and Research in Philosophy and Technology. His major publications are books titled Sport Technology (2002, Elsevier) and Genetically Modified Athletes (2004, Routledge). He is currently working on a co-authored book called The Medicalisation of Cyberspace (Routledge). In 2006, he begins work on a co-authored book called 'CyberSport: Digital Games, Ethics & Cultures' (The MIT Press). He is frequently invited to give lectures related to his work and most recently presented at Harvard Law School and the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

[e] email@andymiah.net