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Notes on Contributors
Jorge Sampaio was born in Lisbon on September 18th 1939. In 1961
he graduated in Law—Lisbon University. Whilst at university he was
involved in various academic activities that marked the start of a persistent
political action against the dictatorship. In 1995, Jorge Sampaio
stood for the presidential elections. He enjoyed the support of personalities,
both independent and from other political areas, who played significant
roles in the political, cultural and economic life of the country.
On January 14th 1996 he was elected on the first ballot. He was sworn
in as President of the Republic on March 9th. He ran for a second term
of office and was re-elected on the first ballot on January 14th 2001, for
another five-year term. In 1991 he published a collection of his political
essays entitled A Festa de um Sonho.” In 1995 a new work of his was
published under the title Um Olhar sobre Portugal, setting out his views
on domestic problems in response to concerns expressed by Portuguese
opinion-makers in various areas of society. In 2000 he published a book
called Quero Dizer-vos, in which his present views on the challenges
faced by the Portuguese society are laid out. His presidential speeches
have been published in a series intitled Portugueses.
Manuel Castells is the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of
Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School of
Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He
is also Research Professor of Information Society at the Open
University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, professor Emeritus of
Sociology and of Planning, at the University of California at Berkeley
and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gustavo Cardoso is an associated researcher at CIES/ISCTE and
Professor of Technology and Society at ISCTE in Lisbon. He also collaborates
with the Department of Communications and Performance
Studies of the University of Milan and with the Portuguese Catholic
University. His international cooperation in European research networks
brought him to work with IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary
Institute) in Barcelona, COST A20 “The Impact of the Internet in
Mass Media” and COST A24 “The Evolving Social Construction of
Threats.” Since 1996 he is adviser on Information Society and
telecommunications policies for the Portuguese Presidency.