Contributor Biographies

Maria Bakardjieva is associate professor at the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary. She is the author of Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday Life, 2005, Sage. Her research examines how users mobilize and appropriate the Internet in a variety of social contexts including the home, educational settings, online and local communities.

danah boyd is a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communications.  Her dissertation focuses on how youth engage in networked publics like MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Xanga, etc.  In particular, she is interested in how American teens formulate a presentation of self and negotiate socialization in mediated contexts amidst invisible audiences.  This work is funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of a broader grant on digital youth and informal learning. danah also holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University and a master's degree in sociable media from MIT Media Lab.

Elizabeth Buchanan is Associate Professor and director of the Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She researches and teaches courses in the areas of information ethics and research methods. She serves as Co-Director of the International Society of Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT), Chair of the Association of Internet Researchers Ethics Working Group, and  is Chair Elect of the Wisconsin Library Association Intellectual Freedom Round Table. She spends her time with her systems librarian husband, 2 children, 5 cats, numerous fish, and one lizard.

John Edward Campbell is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and an instructor at the University of Minnesota.  He is interested in the construction of identity and community in cyberspace and how this is increasingly shaped by the commercial forces of target marketing and consumer surveillance.  He is currently working on his second book which examines the commodification of online communities.  His first book, Getting It On Online:  Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity, was published by Haworth Press in 2004. John also holds a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.

Radhika Gajjala (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1998) is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the School of Communication studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Her research interests include Science and Technology Studies, ICTs and globalization, South Asians and cyberspace and the production of race online and in virtual learning environments.  Her work has appeared in Feminist Media Studies, International and Intercultural Annual, Contemporary South Asia, Technospaces: Inside the New Media (2001) and Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices (2003). Her book Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women (2004) was published by Altamira Press. She is currently co-editing two interdisciplinary collections of essays, one South Asian technospaces and another on Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice and also working on a single-authored book on Technocultural Agency: Production of Identity through Presence/Absence at the intersection of virtual/real Digital cultures (under contract with Lexington).
 
Christine Hine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Her main research centres on the sociology of science and technology, including ethnographic studies of scientific culture, information technology and the internet. Her published work on research methods and the internet includes Virtual Ethnography (Sage, 2000) and the edited collection Virtual Methods (Berg, 2005). Christine is currently President of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.

Lori Kendall is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Her research focuses on information technologies and culture, including online community and identity.

Elaine Lally is a Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. She researches in the areas of art and technology as material culture, and the role of arts and culture in regional development (especially in Western Sydney). She is currently undertaking two ARC-Linkage funded projects, has completed consultancies for ArtsNSW and the Australia Council and is undertaking other short-term research projects, including a project for Fairfield City Council. Dr Lally is author of At Home with Computers (Berg 2002). She holds a PhD in Cultural Histories and Futures from the University of Western Sydney and a master’s degree in anthropology from Australian National University.

Shani Orgad is Lecturer in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Her first book entitled Storytelling Online: Talking Breast Cancer on the Internet explores the online communication of breast cancer patients (Peter Lang, 2005). Her work has appeared also in journals including New Media & Society and Feminist Media Studies and in the edited collections: Oxford University Press Handbook on ICTs (OUP, 2007), Virtual Methods (Berg, 2005) and Web.Studies (Arnold, 2004). 

Ramesh Srinivasan, Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), has focused his research globally on the development of information systems within the context of culturally-differentiated communities. He has studied how the cultural practices specific to communities can manifest themselves into the information system's architecture, particularly with respect to how it represents, categorizes, and disseminates the information it stores. His research has spanned such bounds as Native Americans, Somali refugees, Indian villages, Aboriginal Australia, and Maori New Zealand. His research has received much international acclaim and has appeared in top academic and international journals.

Susannah Stern (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of San Diego.  Her research is situated at the intersection of electronic media and youth culture. She focuses on how young people experience the mediated world, how they use media to navigate through adolescence, and how they construct  media messages to meet their own needs and fantasies.  Her work has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Women's Studies in  Communication, and New Media & Society, as well as in several edited collections.

Jenny Sundén is Assistant Professor in Media Technology at the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. She received her Ph.D. from The Department of Communication Studies, Linkoping University. She has published primarily on new media, cultural studies, cyberfeminism, online ethnography, and digital textuality. She is the author of "Material Virtualities: Approaching Online Textual Embodiment" (Peter Lang, 2003), as well as a co-editor of Cyberfeminism in Northern Lights: Digital Media and Gender in a Nordic Context (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming).

Malin Sveningsson is a lecturer and researcher at the department of Media and Communication studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. She received her Ph.D in 2001, from the Department of Communication Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. Her publications include Creating a Sense of Community. Experiences from a Swedish Web Chat (2001), and she is a co-author of the edited collections: Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet (2002); and Cyberfeminism in Northern lights. Gender and digital media in a Nordic context (in press). She is also a co-author to a Swedish textbook on internet research methods (2003). Her research interests include computer-mediated communication, social interaction, youth culture, gender and identity.