Intellect

Gabriele Hadl's research has focused on how alternative and community media are affected by policy and social movements. On this topic, she has edited a special issue of Intellect's International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (double issue 5.1&2), and acted as an editorial advisor and contributor to the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (ed. John D.H. Downing, SAGE 2010). She is also interested in the effects of the media environment on the natural environment. She teaches Media Policy as Assistant Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. She is also Head of the Community Communication Section (ComCom) of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), a founder of the Civil Society Media Policy Consortium (CSMPolicy, http://web.mac.com/ellenycx/CSMPolicyPublic/), and a member of the NUESTROSMedios/OURMedia Network.

Her civic engagement includes the Buy Nothing Day Japan Network (http://bndjapan.org) for which she designed the Zenta Claus icon. She can be contacted through the IAMCR, CSMPolicy or Buy Nothing Day Japan websites.