Nancy Baym: A former professor of Communications Studies at the University of Kansas, Baym is now a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. She has authored several books including Personal Connections in the Digital Age and articles such as The New Shape of Online Community: The Example of the Swedish Independent Music Fandom. Many of her writings are focused on online communities and the impact of the Internet on human interactions.

Ian Bogost: Bogost is a designer, critic, researcher, and media philosopher. He holds the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author or co-author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System, Newsgames: Journalism at Play, How To Do Things with Videogames, Alien Phenomenology, or What it's Like to Be a Thing.

danah boyd: A senior researcher at Microsoft Research, boyd is also a research assistant professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, and an adjunct associate professor at the University of New South Wales. Her research examines social media, youth practices, tensions between public and private, social network sites, and other intersections between technology and society. 

Nicholas Carr: Carr has been a columnist for The Guardian in London and has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The New Republic, The Financial Times, and Technology Review. His 2008 essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” has been collected in several anthologies and led him to write The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee. He writes the popular blog Rough Type.

Dànielle Nicole DeVoss:  DeVoss’ work has appeared in Computers and Composition; Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture; and The Journal of Popular Culture. She also served as co-editor on Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues and Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Her research interests include computer/technological literacies, digital-visual rhetorics, feminist interpretations of and interventions in computer technologies, and intellectual property issues in digital space.

Nicole Ellison: With a Ph.D. in Communication Theory and Research from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Ellison focuses her research on self-presentation, relationship development, and identity in online environments. She currently works as an associate professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media. 

James Gee: A Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, Gee has published widely in journals in linguistics, psychology, the social sciences, and education. His book Sociolinguistics and Literacies was one of the founding documents in the formation of the "New Literacy Studies.” His most recent books include What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, Situated Language and Learning, and Good Video Games and Good Learning: Collected Essays.

Troy Hicks: Hicks is the author of The Digital Writing Workshop and a co-author of Because Digital Writing Matters. He serves as an associate professor of English at Central Michigan University and is the director of CMU’s Chippewa River Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project. His work focuses on the teaching of writing, literacy and technology, teacher education, and professional development.

Lawrence Lessig: A Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, Lessig is the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is also the author of numerous books on copyright reform, creativity, and politics. His works include Free Culture, Remix, Republic Lost, One Way Forward, and more. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society.

Zizi Papacharissi: With a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Journalism: Political Communications/New Media, Papacharissi is currently a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. She has authored several articles on social media and three books including A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites. Her research focuses on the social and political consequences of online media.

Marc Prensky: Author of five books and numerous articles, Prensky is concerned with education and learning. As founder of Spree Games and Games2train, he has created more than 50 software-learning games. 

James Purdy: An assistant professor and director of the Writing Center at Duquesne University, Purdy has published in Computers and Composition; Computers and Composition Online; College Composition and Communication; Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology; Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture; and Profession. His current research studies the ways in which digital technologies shape and are shaped by the research and writing practices of scholars at all levels.

Howard Rhinegold: A prolific author, Rhinegold is a visiting lecturer at Stanford University. Having followed technology throughout decades, Rhinegold states, “I fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension in 1981, then plugged my computer into my telephone in 1983 and got sucked into the net.” He is credited with coining the term “virtual communities” and has written several books and countless articles on Internet communication media. 

Clay Shirky: Author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (2008) and Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (2010), Shirky says he studies “the effects of the internet on society.” He currently holds a joint appointment at NYU, as an associate arts professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and as a Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Journalism Department. 

Sarah Smith-Robbins: Smith-Robbins is the Director of Emerging Technologies at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. She is the author of ‘This Game Sucks’: How to Improve the Gamification of Education and Higher Education as Virtual Conversation.

Clay Spinuzzi: Spinuzzi is the author of Network, Tracing Genres through Organizations, and Topsight. He is a professor of rhetoric and writing at The University of Texas at Austin, and his interests include research methods and methodology, workplace research, and computer-mediated activity.

Sherry Turkle: An Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. She has a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University; she is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Turkle has written many books studying the way people relate to each other and to technology, including The Second Self: Computers and Human Spirit; Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet; and Alone Together; Why we Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other.

Stephanie Vie:  Author of e-Dentity, a topics-based reader based on the subject of online identity and composing processes online, Vie is Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. She is also the author of the article “Digital Divide 2.0: Generation M and Social Networking Sites in the Composition Classroom” and is the project editor for Utah State University’s Computers and Composition Digital Press.