Kevin Robins was formerly Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Professor of Sociology, City University, London. He is the author of, inter alia, Spaces of Identity (with David Morley), Into the Image, Times of the Technoculture (with Frank Webster). He has worked with the Council of Europe on questions of transnational developments, producing a report for the Council on The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities. Asu Aksoy is Associate Professor at the İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Communications, Cultural Management Department. She is the director of Cultural Policy and Management Research Centre (KPY) where research activities are undertaken in the fields of cultural policy and cultural management. Previously, she worked at the University of Westminster, University of Sussex, and Goldsmiths College London, as a research fellow, on large-scale research programmes. After returning to Turkey in 2007, she worked as the international projects director of the arts and culture centre of Bilgi University – santralistanbul. She has worked with the Istanbul 2010 Agency, and with the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism on the cultural economy of Istanbul, as well as with different research organisations across Europe on issues of cultural policy.