Ted Striphas (Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2002) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University.nbsp; His primary research interests include media historiography, cultural studies, Marxism, and communication theory.nbsp; At present he is at work on a cultural history of the U.S. book industry tentatively entitled, Equipment for Living: Everyday Book Culture in the Making .nbsp; He also is co-editor (with Kembrew McLeod) of a forthcoming special issue of the journal Cultural Studies on the politics of intellectual properties.nbsp; His work has appeared in, among other places, Critical Studies in Media Communication , Cultural… Studies , The Review of Education , Pedagogy , and Cultural Studies, Social Epistemology, and Television and New Media . He is a 2004 recipient of the Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association.