About the Contributors

Rosemary Avance received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching center on the intersection of new media, religion, and modernity. Her work site is http://www.rosemaryavance.com/.

Saugata Bhaduri is professor of English and associate dean of students at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His areas of research and teaching interest include popular culture, of both folk and the mass-mediatized sort. See http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/bhaduri/cv.pdf for more.

Sandra Braman is John Paul Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts and professor of communication at Texas A&M University with research and teaching interests in digital technologies and their policy implications. Her work site is people.tamu.edu/~braman/.

Gabriella Coleman is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University with teaching interests in computer hackers and digital activism. She has authored two books on computer hackers. For more, see http://gabriellacoleman.org/.

Jeffrey Drouin is assistant professor of English and codirector of the Modernist Journals Project at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: “The Einstein of English Fiction” (Routledge, 2014) and creator of Ecclesiastical Proust Archive, http://proustarchive.org.

Christina Dunbar-Hester teaches courses on technology and culture in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, where she works as an assistant professor. She is the author of Low Power to the People: Pirates, Protest, and Politics in FM Radio Activism (MIT Press, 2014)She writes about media activism and political engagement with technology, and many of her pieces can be found on http://usc.academia.edu/ChristinaDunbarHester.

Adam Fish is a social anthropologist of digital industries and digital activism who teaches in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. His work site is http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/adam-fish.

Hope Forsyth is a JD candidate with research interests in copyright and media history at the University of Tulsa, where she also earned her honors bachelors degree in communication (with minors in English and philosophy) as a Presidential Scholar.

Bernard Geoghegan is assistant professor at the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he teaches courses on media theory and the history of technology. See http://bernardg.com/ for more.

Tarleton Gillespie is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, New England, and an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. He is the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2007) and the cofounder of the scholarly blog Culture Digitally, http://culturedigitally.org/.

Katherine D. Harris is associate professor in English at San Jose State University, where she teaches about topics in literature and technology ranging from the mechanization of the printing press in nineteenth-century England to current uses of narrative in gaming. Find her latest work and public lecture schedule at http://triproftri.wordpress.com.

Nicholas A. John is lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include technology and society, social media, and sharing. Find him at http://nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il.

Christopher Kelty is professor in the Institute of Society and Genetics, with appointments in the Department of Information Sciences and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Duke University Press, 2008), he teaches courses on the history of modern thought, science studies, and anthropology. More is available at http://kelty.org/.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford and editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics. His research deals with political communication, changes in news media and journalism around the world, and the role of digital technology in these areas. More on his work here: http://rasmuskleisnielsen.net/.

Benjamin Peters is assistant professor of communication at the University of Tulsa, where he teaches courses on media history and theory with a particular emphasis on information technologies. He keeps working notes at http://petersbenjamin.wordpress.com.

John Durham Peters is A. Craig Baird Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Iowa, where he teaches courses on the cultural history of media and social theory. His work site is http://johndurhampeters.wordpress.com.

Steven Schrag is a PhD student in the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, with research interests at the intersection of technology, worldbuilding, and memory. For more information: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/students/steven-schrag.

Stephanie Ricker Schulte is associate chair and associate professor of communication at the University of Arkansas, where she researches communication technologies, popular culture, and transnational media policy. She is the author of Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture (New York University Press, 2013).

Limor Shifman is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research and teaching interests include the social construction of humor, popular culture, and new media. For more information: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~mslimors/.

Julia Sonnevend is assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, where she teaches courses on events and symbols, icons and performances in global media. For more information: http://julia-sonnevend.com.

Jonathan Sterne is professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology at McGill University. He writes and teaches on sound, media theory and history, technology and culture, and disability. His latest book is MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke University Press, 2012). For more, see http://sterneworks.org.

Thomas Streeter is professor of sociology at the University of Vermont, where he teaches about media and culture, while researching the intersections between law, technology, culture, and language. He is currently studying the effects of the ongoing digitization of legal documentation on legal practices. More about him can be found at http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete.

Ted Striphas is associate professor of communication at the University of Colorado–Boulder. He teaches courses on the history and philosophy of technology; on the politics of everyday life; and on cultural studies and keywords. He is author of The Late Age of Print (Columbia University Press, 2009) and is at work on his next book, Algorithmic Culture. Twitter: @striphas.

Fred Turner is professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where he teaches on the intersection of media, technology, and American cultural history. For more, see http://fredturner.stanford.edu/.

Guobin Yang is associate professor of communication and sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he writes and teaches on digital media, political communication, and social movements in global and Chinese contexts. See https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd.

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