Joseph Turow is Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication at Penn's Annenberg School for Communication. He is the author of more than 50 articles and 8 books on mass media industries. His continuing work on the internet and the family and the internet and information privacy has received a great deal of attention from the popular press as well as the research community. He has written about media in the popular press, including American Demographics magazine and The Los Angeles Times. His research has received financial support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Federal Communications Communication, and National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. The winner of a number of conference-paper and book awards, he was a Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer at LSU during Spring, 2000. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journalism, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Poetics, the Sage Annual Review of Communication Research, and New Media and Society.