Finn Bostad is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, in the field of human communication and new technology. He has published internationally on electronic discourse, and supervised a research program on ICT and learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is currently researching multimedia semiotics. Craig Brandist is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies and the Bakhtin Circle at Sheffield University. He is the author of "Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel,"...