ERIC J. ARNOULD is Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Business Practices at the University of Wyoming. His research investigates service relationships, West African marketing systems, productive consumer rituals, sustainable business practices and the uses of qualitative data. He is author of “Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty Years of Research,” Journal of Consumer Research. [email: earnould@uwyo.edu]

LUCY ATKINSON is an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the intersection of media use, political engagement and consumer behavior, particularly among young people. [email: lucyatkinson@mail.utexas.edu]

LANCE BENNETT is Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. His work on news and political communication has appeared in leading journals. He is the author of six books, including News: The Politics of Illusion, 5th Ed, and The Governing Crisis: Media, Money, and Marketing in American Elections. [email: lbennett@u.washington.edu]

BRUCE BIMBER is Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara. His research examines the relationship between digital media and human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization and collective action. His book Information and American Democracy won the Price Award for Best Book on Science, Technology and Politics from the American Political Science Association. [email: bimber@polsci.ucsb.edu]

T.H. BREEN is William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern, specializing in the history of political thought, material culture, and cultural anthropology. He is a Guggenheim fellow who has held Professorships at Cambridge and Oxford, he has published five monographs, including Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence.
[email: t-breen@northwestern.edu]

LAUREN M. COPELAND is a Ph.D. student in political science at UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests include political communication, public opinion, political participation, gender politics and environmental politics. Her dissertation uses original survey research to examine motivations for political, ethical, and environmental consumerism in the United States. She is also the recipient of the Department of Political Science's distinguished teaching assistant award. [email: Lauren.Copeland@gmail.com]

PAULO GRAZIANO is Associate Professor of Political Science and Fellow of the Centre d'études européennes at Sciences-Po, Paris. His research concerns Europeanization and European integration, local politics, welfare policies, and democratic participation. His research is published in several leading European political science and policy journals. [email: paolo.graziano@unibocconi.it]

DOUGLAS HOLT is the L’Oréal Professor of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research applies a socio-cultural lens to key issues in branding, advertising, and consumption. Holt has published on sociological issues concerning consumption, including social class, masculinity, and consumer society. He co-edited The Consumer Society Reader with Juliet Schor. [email: doug.holt@sbs.ox.ac.uk]

THOMAS HOVE is an assistant professor in the Department of Advertising, Public Relations, and Retailing at Michigan State University. His recent research focuses on ethical issues in advertising and public relations in both traditional and new media. [email: hovet@msu.edu]

LOUIS HYMAN is a lecturer in the History Department at Harvard University and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His recent book, Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America, is an analysis of the political and economic institutions, consumer behaviors, and legal framework that converged to bring about a major personal debt crisis we find ourselves in today. [email: lhyman@gmail.com]

MICHELE MICHELETTI is Professor and Lars Hierta Chair of Political Science at Stockholm University. She has written on civil society, multiculturalism, and political consumerism and its implications, as well as conducting democratic audits. She is co-editor with Dietlind Stolle of Politics, Products, and Markets. Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present. [email: michele.micheletti@statsvet.su.se]

HYE-JIN PAEK is Associate Professor in the Department of Advertising, Public Relations, and Retailing at Michigan State University where she teaches social marketing. Her major research interests include media and health and social responsibility in advertising. She has about 50 articles and book chapters published in the relevant fields. [email: aekh@msu.edu]

MARK A. RADEMACHER is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Communication Program at Butler University, where he is also the Program Director. His research investigates cultural consumption, alternative consumption communities, and identity. His research has been published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and presented at national and international communication and consumer research conferences. [email: mrademac@butler.edu]

MARGARET SCAMMELL (tentative) is a Lecturer in media and communications at the London School of Economics. Before joining the LSE, she was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool and a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard University. She recently wrote 'Citizen Consumers: Towards a New Marketing of Politics?' in J. Corner and D. Pels (eds.) The Re-styling of Politics. [email: m.scammell@lse.ac.uk]

JULIET SCHOR is Professor of Sociology at Boston University focusing on consumer society, trends in work and leisure, and the relationship between work and family. Schor is the author of The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consumer, and Born to Buy:The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. She co-edited The Consumer Society Reader with Douglas Holt. [email: juliet.schor@bc.edu]

KJERSTIN THORSON is Assistant Professor of Public Relations and Research Director of the Strategic Communication and Public Relations Center at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. Her research explores the role of communication processes in the way young people make sense of civic norms, political engagement and citizenship. [email: kjerstin.thorson@usc.edu]