U.S. Mission to Germany

Fachleiter Seminar 1999 - "The Politics of Space"

Speaker Bios

Rosanne Altstatt, Director and Curator, Videonale, Bonn
Ms. Altstatt has been working with the Videonale, an independent group for the support of the electronic arts, for the last four years. She began organizing exhibits, then curated them and is now Director of the verein. She brings together artists who work with video, CD-ROM and the internet to discuss and exhibit their work at the biannual Videonale festival, show electronic art work in museum exhibitions and organize special programming and talk on the electronic arts. Ms. Altstatt's specialization is the genensis of video art in the U.S. and Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. Occasionally, she writes as the Cologne correspondent for the magazine Art in America and the internet arts magazine ArtNet Worldwide.
Doris A. Graber, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago
Ph.D. Columbia University; Fields of Interest: Political communication, Information Processing and Management, Public Opinion; Selected Research: The impact of mass media on government Media Power in Politics, (1994). Media Agenda Setting in a Presidential Election, (1981). Crime News and the Public, (1980). Information processing Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide, (1988). Organizational communication Public Sector Communication: How Organizations Manage Information, (1992). Foreign policy and the presidency The President and the Public, (1982). Current Research Interests: Multi-faceted investigation of the audio-visual content of television newscasts and their impact on audiences. Experimental research on mass media information processing. Research on the effects of mass media information on public opinion, political learning, election politics, politcal institutions and public policy.
e-mail: dgraber@uic.edu (U08897@uicvm.uic.edu)
John R. Leo, University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Ph.D., Northeastern University, 1972, Professor, Dept. of English and Director of Film Studies
e-mail: johnleo@uriacc.uri.edu
David Mindich, Saint Michael's College, Colchester, Vermont
Dr. David Mindich, Assistant Professor of Journalism, is a former Cable News Network editor who joined the Saint Michael's faculty in 1996. He received his PhD from Brandeis in 1996. Dr. Mindich worked as a television and print journalist, as an assignment editor for CNN, then as a free-lance writer. He is author of the book "Just Facts: How 'Objectivity' Came to Define American Journalism" (Nov. 1998). His vita can be found at http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/mindich ,
e-mail: dmindich@smcvt.edu
Ingrid Scheithauer, Senior Editor of the Frankfurter Rundschau,
Ingrid Scheithauer is in charge of the media and communications coverage of that nationwide daily. Ms. Scheithauer frequently has served as moderator and lecturer at meetings dealing with media development and media politics. In 1993, she was appointed to the Commission of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany on media development. Ms. Scheithauer is a member of the Transatlantic Forum, an organization initiated by the Herbert Quandt Foundation in 1995. In addition to her journalistic work, she has lectured at the Salzburg Seminar, the University of Munich, Marburg, Frankfurt and taught at the University of Heidelberg. Ms. Scheithauer received an M.A. in political science and communication research at the University of Munich.
Brian White, Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Brian White is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy Analysis and works with Dr. Doris Graber, one of the leading experts in Politics and the New Media. Mr. White is currently working on a book which examines current content, explores links, and discusses how students have used and can use the Internet to assist their understanding of politics. He is Editorial Coordinator (Books) for Political Psychology and Political Communication. He worked as Research Assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Illinois.
His publications include "Building Cyber-Age Information Bridges between Government Agencies and the Public," Illinois Political Science Review, vol. 2, 1998. "American Government and Politics On-Line: An Internet Guide for American Government, 7th Edition." Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.