Mark Andrejevic is a Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College and a Visiting Research Professor at Monash University (Australia). He writes and teaches about surveillance, popular culture, and digital media. His current work focuses on the social implications of data mining, social sorting, and automated decision making. He is also the author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched (2004), iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (2007), and Infoglut: How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know (2013).
Nicholas David Bowman is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Creative Media Industries in the College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University. Bowman earned his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. His research looks at the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social demands of interactive media. He is a former newspaper and radio journalist.
Mark Brewin earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. A former newspaper reporter, his primary interests are in the history of journalism and the history of political communication, dating from the early modern period to the present.
Benjamin Burroughs is an Assistant Professor of Emerging Media in the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. His research focuses on streaming media and technology, media industries, and social media. His work has been published in New Media and Society, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Social Media + Society, and Continuum. He earned two Masters degrees in Global Media and Communication from the University of Southern California and the London School of Economics and Political Science and his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa.
Elizabeth Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at West Virginia University. She earned her Ph.D. at Georgia State University, and her research specializes in the psychological motivations and effects of social media use.
Colin Doty received his Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2015. He teaches at several universities in the Southern California area. His research focuses on misinformation, the information society, and new media. His chapter in this volume is based on his work as a research consultant with the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dan Faltesek is an Assistant Professor of Social Media at Oregon State University. His research explores the relationships between institutions and infrastructures of social media and the interfaces and texts we know as social media. This approach crosses communication, political economy, computer science, graphic design, and other fields as a translational approach to social media research.
Johan Farkas is a Ph.D. fellow at Malmö University, Sweden. His research interests include political communication and participation and online propaganda. Farkas has published on “cloaked Facebook pages” in New Media and Society and Critical Discourse Studies, and his work on fake news as a floating signifier is published in Javnost—The Public.
Cherian George is an Associate Professor in the Journalism Department of Hong Kong Baptist University, where he also serves as director of the Centre for Media and Communication Research. His latest book is Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy (MIT Press, 2016), and he is the author of three other books: Singapore: The Air-Conditioned Nation (Landmark, 2000); Contentious Journalism and the Internet: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore (National University of Singapore Press and University of Washington Press, 2006); and Freedom from the Press: Journalism and State Power in Singapore (National University of Singapore Press, 2012). Since 2013, he has been the editor of the journal Media Asia.
Tarleton Gillespie is a Principal Researcher in the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research in New England. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor at Cornell University and the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT Press, 2009) and coeditor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (MIT Press, 2014). A forthcoming book examines the relationship between content guidelines on social media platforms and “appropriate” user contributions.
Dawn R. Gilpin is an Associate Professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Mass Media and Communication at Temple University and has published research in numerous journals and edited volumes, including Communication Theory, Journal of Public Relations Research, and A Networked Self (Routledge, 2011), among others. Her research broadly addresses organizational and collective identity construction, with a specific focus in recent years on online gun culture.
Gina Giotta is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge. In addition to her work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual culture, she studies the political economy of network culture and changing forms of production as they relate to unwaged communicative work and the sexual division of labor online.
Theodore L. Glasser is a Professor of Communication, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Glasser’s teaching and research focus on media practices and performance, with emphasis on questions of press responsibility and accountability. His books include Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies (with Clifford Christians, Denis McQuail, Kaarle Nordenstreng, and Robert White), winner in 2010 of the Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha award for best research-based book on journalism / mass communication and a finalist for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Tankard Book Award; The Idea of Public Journalism, an edited collection of essays, recently translated into Chinese; Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue (with James S. Ettema), which won the Society of Professional Journalists’ award for best research on journalism, the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism, and the Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha award for the best research-based book on journalism / mass communication; Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent (edited with Charles T. Salmon); and Media Freedom and Accountability (edited with Everette E. Dennis and Donald M. Gillmor). His research, commentaries, and book reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including Journal of Communication, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journalism Studies, Policy Sciences, Journal of American History, Quill, Nieman Reports, and the New York Times Book Review.
Amanda Ann Klein is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at East Carolina University. Klein teaches courses in film history, theory, and aesthetics. Her primary research and teaching interests include film history and historiography, film genres and genre theory, African American cinema, exploitation films, television studies, and subcultural studies. She is the author of American Film Cycles: Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures (University of Texas Press, 2011) and coeditor of Cycles, Sequels, Spin-offs, Remakes and Reboots: Multiplicities in Film and Television (University of Texas Press, 2016).
Paul Levinson is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), New New Media (2009; 2nd ed., 2012), McLuhan in an Age of Social Media (2015), and Fake News in Real Context (2016), have been translated into twelve languages. He coedited Touching the Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of Space Travel and Religion in 2016. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), The Plot To Save Socrates (2006), Unburning Alexandria (2013), and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (1998–2001). His stories and novels have been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Edgar, Prometheus, and Audie awards. He appears on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, NPR, and numerous TV and radio programs and was listed in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Top 10 Academic Twitterers” in 2009.
Adrienne Massanari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Massanari’s research centers on the social and cultural impacts of new media, gaming, information architecture and user-centered design, crowdsourcing, youth culture, and digital ethics. Her work has appeared in New Media and Society, First Monday, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Journal of Information Technology and Politics. In her book Participatory Culture, Community, and Play: Learning from Reddit (Peter Lang, 2015), she analyzed the culture of the social news and community site Reddit. She also has more than ten years of experience as a user researcher, information architect, usability specialist, and consultant in both corporate and educational settings.
Sophia A. McClennen is a Professor of International Affairs and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University, founding Director of the Center for Global Studies, and Associate Director of the School of International Affairs. She studies human rights, satire, and politics, and her recent work includes Is Satire Saving Our Nation? (2014), coauthored with Remy Maisel, and The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (2015), coedited with Alexandra Schultheis Moore.
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas is a Professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College studying the propagation of (mis)information on the Web and online social media, the power of crowdsourcing, and developing tools that support the privacy of the user while estimating the trustworthiness of the information the user receives. Metaxas is also Faculty Director for the Albright Institute of Global Affairs and an affiliate at Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society.
Paul Mihailidis is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Emerson College in Boston, where he teaches media literacy and civic media. He is also Principal Investigator and Faculty Director of the Engagement Lab at Emerson College, where he is Director of the M.A. in Civic Media: Art and Practice. Mihailidis also directs the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, a project that gathers young media makers and activists from around the world to build media responses to the globe’s pressing problems. His research focuses on the nexus of media, education, and civic voices. His books Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (MIT Press, 2016; with Eric Gordon) and Media Literacy and the Emerging Citizen (Peter Lang, 2014) outline effective practices for participatory citizenship and engagement in digital culture. He earned his Ph.D. from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Benjamin Peters is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. His work examines how media—and information technologies in particular—take shape differently across different regimes of space, time, and power. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. from Columbia University.
Whitney Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, and Digital Technologies at Syracuse University. She is the author of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (MIT Press, 2015) and coauthor of The Ambivalent Internet (Polity Press, 2017).
Victor Pickard is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, and his popular writing has appeared in outlets such as The Guardian, the Huffington Post, The Nation, Jacobin, and The Atlantic. He is the author of America’s Battle for Media Democracy and coeditor of Media Activism in the Digital Age (with Guobin Yang), The Future of Internet Policy (with Peter Decherney), and Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights (with Robert McChesney). Currently, he is working on a book about the future of digital journalism.
Danielle Polage is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Central Washington University. She received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Washington in 1999 and her B.A. in Mathematics from Emory University in 1993. She specializes in memory research, particularly false memories, lying, and other psychology and law issues. Her main focus of research is the effects of lying on the liar’s memory for the truth and the memory effects of exposure to false information. She is the author of nine published articles and has presented her research at conferences all over the world.
Stephanie Ricker Schulte is Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and researches communication technologies, popular culture, and transnational media policy. Her first book, Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture (New York University Press, 2013; Critical Cultural Communication series), is a transnational political and cultural history of the internet that examines the multidirectional relationships between technological design, American culture, and policy making. Her work has appeared in shorter form in Television and New Media, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Mass Communication and Society, Feminist Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Communication, American Studies, and Journal of New Media and Culture.
Leslie-Jean Thornton is an Associate Professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She was the top editor at six newspapers in the New York–Connecticut metro area and earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Anita Varma is the Program Manager for the Trust Project (Journalism Ethics). Varma works across many Trust Project areas, including newsroom partner relations, research, bookkeeping, and scheduling. She also coordinates public engagement activities related to developing strategies for improving trust in news. Varma earned a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University.
Claire Wardle is a leading expert on social media, user-generated content, and verification. Her research sits at the increasingly visible and critical intersection of technology, communications theory, and mass and social media. She is cofounder and leader of First Draft News, the world’s foremost nonprofit focused on research and practice to address mis- and disinformation. First Draft is housed at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where Wardle is a Research Fellow. Previously, she was the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School. Wardle has worked with newsrooms and humanitarian organizations around the world, providing training and consultancy on digital transformation. She earned a Ph.D. in Communications and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sheng Zou is a doctoral student at Stanford University. Zou is interested in critical theory and cultural studies, particularly issues related to the politics of representation, the workings of ideology, and the affective dimension of digital media production and user participation. Zou earned an M.A. in International Journalism and Communication from Tsinghua University and a B.A. in International Relations and English from Beijing Foreign Studies University.