Divina Frau-Meigs is Professor of media sociology at the University Paris 3-Sorbonne, France. With degrees from the Sorbonne, Stanford University and the Annenberg School for Communications (University of Pennsylvania), she is a specialist of media and information technologies policies and uses. She is currently vice-president of the International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR).

Michaël Palmer is Professor in Information and communication studies, University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and Director of the Research Center "Communication, Information, Media" (CIM). His research interests cover international communications; the history of the media, of communications and of communication studies; communications and “world languages”: the geopolitics and economics of international news, data flows and of transnational multimedia organizations.

Josiane Jouët is Professor at the University Paris II and Director of the Institut Français de Presse. She has degrees from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris V University and Columbia University. She teaches courses in the sociology of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), audience studies, and research methodology. She has done intensive research and published on social uses of ICTs, including computer-mediated communication, gender issues, and the youth’s appropriation of digital technologies.

Christine Leteinturier is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Institut Français de Presse (Paris II University). Her research interests include the sociological aspects of journalism and the social uses of ITCs. She teaches courses in the history of networks and communication technologies, the social uses of ITCs, and more specifically the sociology of innovation.

Nathalie Sonnac is Associate Professor at the Institut Français de Presse (Paris II University). A member of CARISM, she is a specialist in media economics (the Press, the broadcast media and the Internet) and the author of numerous articles and books on the media and the Newspaper industry.

Camille Laville is a junior researcher with a PhD from Paris VIII University and Laval University, Québec, Canada. She has taught courses in media sociology and sociology of journalism at the University Paris VIII, IFP (Institut Français de Presse) and at different francophone journalism centres (Beyrouth, Cairo and Moscow). She participates in different research groups: GRMJ (Research group on journalism, Laval university), CEMTI (Paris VIII university) and CARISM (Paris II University). She is a founding member of ARSIC, the association of graduate students in information-communication studies.

Nathalie Perreur is a PhD student and member of CARISM (Paris II University). She teaches media sociology courses and information and communication theories at the Institut Français de Presse (Paris II University), at Paris III University and at the Francophone Journalism Center in Cairo (Egypt). Her research fields include the sociology of media representations, American television programs, TV series, crime in the media, television news.