International Advisory Group Professor Bruce Bimber , Departments of Political Science & Communication , Director Emeritus, Center for Information Technology and Society , University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.Professor Stephen Coleman , Professor of Political Communication, Institute for Communication Studies, University of Leeds , United Kingdom.Professor Maura Conway , Department of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland.Dr Sophie Duchesne, Senior Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique , Paris, France. Adam Dustagheer , Digital Communications Manager, Confederation of British Industry (formerly Head of New Media, the Labour Party).Professor William H. Dutton , Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy and Director of the Quello Centre, Michigan State University .Dr Mary Francoli, Department of Communication, Carleton University, Canada. Professor Rachel K. Gibson , Professor of Political Science, Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester.Professor Marie Gillespie , Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, The Open University , United Kingdom.Professor Philip N. Howard , Professor, Department of Communication, University of Washington , United States. Mr Jimmy Leach, Consultant: Digital Communications and Engagement at ICANN. Professor Miriam Lips , Chair in E-Government, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington , New Zealand.Professor Piers Robinson , Senior Lecturer, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield , United Kingdom.Professor Kenneth S. Rogerson , Research Director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University , United States.Professor Philip M. Seib , Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy, Professor of International Relations, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, United States.Dr Stuart Shulman , Founder and CEO of Texifter , United States.Professor Howard Tumber , Professor of Journalism, Co-Director of the Centre for Law, Justice & Journalism , City University, United Kingdom.Dr Thomas Zittel , Professor for Comparative Politics, Institut für Politikwissenschaf t, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany.