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An internationally noted media scholar, Yahya R. Kamalipour (PhD, University of Missouri) is a professor of communications and former chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, North Carolina A&T State University. Previously, for 28 years, he served as professor and head of the Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Northwest. His areas of interest and research include globalization, media impact, international communication, Middle East media, and new communication technologies. Profiled in the Contemporary Authors and Who’s Who in the World, he has published 18 books, including Global Communication, 3rd edition, Digital Transformation in Journalism and News Media, and Communicating through the Universe. Kamalipour has served as an international academic consultant for several colleges and universities and on advisory/editorial boards of a dozen prominent communication journals. He is the founding manager of the Global Media Journals network and founding president of the Global Communication Association. Kamalipour has visited sixty-five countries and has been interviewed by major newspapers and broadcast media, including BBC, Reuters, ABC, VOA, RFL/RL, National Public Radio, Radio France International, Chinese TV, Turkish TV, Indian TV, Iranian TV, Egyptian TV, The Indianapolis Star, Quill, and The Washington Post. Kamalipour earned his PhD in communication at the University of Missouri-Columbia, his MA in mass media at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and his BA in mass communication—public relations at the Minnesota State University. For additional information visit www.kamalipour.com.