Michael Keren is a professor and Canada Research Chairin the Department of Political Science and the Department ofCommunication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He is theauthor of many books on public intellectuals, political communication, and political literature, including Blogosphere: The New PoliticalArena and The Citizen¿s Voice: Twentieth-CenturyPolitics and Literature. Richard Hawkins isprofessor in the Science, Technology and Society Program at theUniversity of Calgary, senior fellow at the Centre for InnovationStudies (THECIS), and a fellow of the Institute for Science, Societyand Policy at the University of Ottawa. He has served as policyconsultant for such clients as the World Bank and Industry Canada andhas authored more than a hundred scientific publications and technicalreports on science, technology, and industry policy.