費•金斯伯格，紐約大學媒體文化曆史中心主任，大衛•剋萊澤人類學教授，著有獲奬圖書《被質疑的生命：一個美國社區內的墮胎爭論》（加利福尼亞，1998年第2版）等多部書籍。

裏拉•阿布-盧赫德，哥倫比亞大學人類學和女性研究教授，著有備受贊譽的《書寫女性世界：貝都因人的故事》（加利福尼亞，1993年）和《濛麵紗的情感：貝都因社會的榮耀與詩歌》（加利福尼亞，1986年，2000年）等。

布萊恩•拉金，哥倫比亞大學巴納德學院人類學助理教授。

This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media - film, television, video - are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new field, cover topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Their essays, mostly new work produced for this volume, bring provocative new theoretical perspectives grounded in cross-cultural ethnographic realities to the study of media.