|  | The STS Spotlight is on... Paul Duguid Paul Duguid was born in Liverpool, England. After graduating in English and Philosophy from Bristol University, he came to St. Louis where, after teaching in high school for a year, he went to graduate school at Washington University. He then moved to New York, where he worked in publishing for four years before returning to England, where he founded his own publishing company. In 1987, he moved to Californiaand went to work at the Institute for Research on Learning in Palo Alto, after which he became a long-term consultant at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and a research specialist in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. At IRL and PARC, he coauthored several papers with John Seely Brown, developing ideas that went into a collaborative book, The Social Life of Information (2000). At Berkeley, he worked on a historical-anthropological project with Jean Lave in a longitudinal study of relations in the wine trade in northern Portugal. In 2005, Paul was appointed adjunct professor in the School of Information at Berkeley. He is also a professorial research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London and an honorary fellow at Lancaster University. In recent years he has been a research fellow at the École Polytechnique in Paris and at Copenhagen Business School. Since 2005 he has been a fellow of STS. His current research focuses on matters of quality, particularly with regard to the quality of information in the age of digital communication. In a related vein, he is interested in the extent to which brands signal quality and is engaged with colleagues at Queen Mary in historical research into the development of trademarks in England and France. An avid reader of fiction and keen theater goer, Paul lives in Berkeley with his wife, an architect. He swims and bicycles regularly and, when his knees allow, runs. For twenty years, he has been an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. |  | The STS Spotlight is on... Chad Raphael Chad Raphael is a member of the Center’s Steering Committee and an Associate Professor of Communication at Santa Clara University. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, he acted or directed in over twenty plays and won an award for being the best actor in the senior class. After college, Chad became an advocate for affordable housing, organizing tenants in Boston’s low-income neighborhoods to transfer ownership of their buildings from a slum landlord to a responsible non-profit manager. This experience, which involved attracting extensive news coverage to tenants’ plight, sparked his interest in how the news media can be a force for advancing or blocking social change. He returned to graduate school to study public communication, earning a Ph.D. in Radio-TV-Film at Northwestern University, and then joined the Santa Clara University’s Department of Communication in 1997. One of Chad’s primary interests is the role of the news media in public life, especially investigative journalism. In addition to teaching courses on the news media and politics, he has published the book Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary (University of Illinois Press, 2005), as well as articles on the news media in journals such as Journalism Studies and Communication Law & Policy. He has also contributed research to investigative reports produced by PBS and the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco and been interviewed by Bay Area media for stories on news media ethics. Another of Chad’s interests is the history and impact of communication technologies. He teaches courses on the social influences of communication technology and on the history of information technology in Silicon Valley. His current body of research, with Communication Department colleague Christine Bachen, focuses on how to design new media to engage youth, and especially girls, in civic life. This work, which has been funded by a Center for Science, Technology and Society research grant, has appeared in Journal of Educational Computing Research and is under review at several other journals. Chad is also interested in the environment, technology, and communication. He teaches a course on analyzing environmental communication and serves on the Steering Committee of Santa Clara University’s Environmental Studies Institute. He is a past President of the Board of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, a national foundation that supports work on environmental issues, and has consulted on communication strategy for the Computer TakeBack Campaign, a national effort to solve the growing problem of hazardous electronic waste. He has published several op-ed pieces, articles, and book chapters on these issues. Chad enjoys reading, hiking, swimming, and laughing with his wife Betty, five year old son Adin, and dog Emma. From time to time he visits his old theater friends in New York and Hollywood and is reminded that he made the right career choice in joining academia. More on Chad Raphael  |  | The STS Spotlight is on... Pedro Hernandez-Ramos Pedro Hernández-Ramos was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in central Mexico. After completing his undergraduate education in Mexico City, he worked for a year as a researcher in a new Institute for Communication Research funded by Televisa, the Mexican media conglomerate. He then went to Stanford University to earn a Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research. From Stanford, Pedro went on to work as an Assistant Editor in the project to create the first International Encyclopedia of Communications, a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford University Press. He co-authored (with Wilbur Schramm) the encyclopedia entry on “Development Communication—History and Theories.” Dr. Hernández-Ramos joined Santa Clara University in 2001, with a joint appointment at the Department of Education and at the Center for Science Technology and Society. Prior to SCU he worked for Apple Computer, Acer America, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Cisco Systems. In Education his focus is on educational technology. He teaches courses in the teacher preparation program and at the masters level, and he also directs the MA emphasis in “Teaching and Learning with Technology,” His research interests include technology integration into teacher preparation and teachers’ classroom practice, online learning, virtual communities, and education and international development. Pedro’s hobbies include running, reading, listening to music of all types (with a preference for jazz, classical, and salsa), biking with his 10-year-old son, and the occasional game of tennis. He loves to travel, and is already plotting a long post-tenure trip to a foreign country. In addition to his academic goals of great teaching, publishing meaningful research, and being a good member of the community, Pedro would like to run a 10-K race in under 52 minutes by April 2006, solve the New York Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif Sunday crossword, and either do a parachute jump or go hang-gliding before too long. 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