Denis McQuail is Emeritus Professor at the School of Communication Research (ASCOR) University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton. He studied history and sociology at the University of Oxford and received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. He is an Honorary Doctor of the University of Gent. He has published widely in the field of media and communication, with particular reference to audience research, media policy and performance, and political communication. His most recent book publications are: McQuail's Mass Communication Theory, 5th edition., Sage, 2005 and Media Accountability and Freedom of Publication, University… of Oxford Press, 2003.
Clifford G. Christiansis research professor of communications and the director of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Theodore L. Glasseris a professor of communication at Stanford University. Denis McQuail is a professor emeritus of mass communication at the University of Amsterdam.Kaarle Nordenstrengis a professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Tampere, Finland.Robert A. Whiteis a professor of social sciences and communications at St. Augustine University of Tanzania.