Colleagues: Nancy kindly mentioned my name in her nominations, and I would be happy to serve in an open seat on the AOIR board. A few words on what you might get: INTERDISCIPLINARY BACKGROUND I trained in English language and literature, but soon turned toward media and communication studies, spending time as a graduate student and postdoc at US research institutions, including the Annenberg School of Communications in Los Angeles. In the Nordic and European context, I have been an advocate of integrating humanistic and social-scientific approaches to communication and culture, initially in audience and reception studies, more recently in computer media studies. NETWORKS - International Association of Media and Communication Research: President of Audience and Reception Studies Section - 'Changing Media, Changing Europe': Participant in 5-year project with 60+ researchers from around Europe on the social and cultural implications of media developments - Editorial Board member for a number of media journals, including in the past the Journal of Communication, and currently the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media; Journalism - Theory, Practice, Critism; Social Semiotics. PLATFORM Since participating in (one of) the first meeting(s) of AOIR at the International Communication Association conference in San Francisco 1999, I have attended AOIR 1, and have served on its Ethics Committee. On the board, I would like to work with colleagues from around the world on consolidating the association. Three areas of activity, in particular, come to mind: - ensuring a worldwide representation of AOIR, including conferences outside North America - enhancing the web resources of AOIR as an arena for information exchange and research collaboration - exploring the interfaces of AOIR with related professional organizations, perhaps through joint seminars and other formats. -- ____________________________________ Klaus Bruhn Jensen Associate Professor, dr.phil. Department of Film and Media Studies University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark kbj@hum.ku.dk http://www.ifm.ku.dk ____________________________________