A former Professor of media studies in Germany, Ingrid Volkmer currently teaches at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She has been a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and is currently affiliated with the Amsterdam School of Communication Research in The Netherlands. Dr. Volkmer has published widely on issues of global media infrastructures and journalism. She is on the editorial board of the journal Global Media & Communication and Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia « Globalization (2005).