Lisa Nakamurais the Director of the Asian American Studies Program, Professor in the Institute of Communication Research and Media Studies program, and Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (2008) and Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet (2002), and she is coeditor of Race in Cyberspace (2000) and Race After the Internet (2011). She has published articles in PMLA, Cinema Journal, Women's Review of Books, Camera Obscura, and the Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies. Her research focuses on race and gender in online social spaces such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games, and she is currently investigating the racializaton of labor in transnational contexts and avatarial operations in a postracial world.
Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He is a contributor to The Nation, the Village Voice, New York Times, and Artforum, and he is the author of many books, including, most recently, Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City; Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times; Fast Boatto China—Lessons from Shanghai;Low Pay, High Profile: The Global Push for Fair Labor; No-Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs; and The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town.
Ned Rossiter is an Australian media theorist and author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006). He was based inPerth, Melbourne, Ulster, Beijing, Shanghai, and Ningbo before taking up an appointment as Professor of Communication in2011 in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, where he is also a member of the Institute for Culture and Society. Rossiter is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Creative Industries, Beida (Peking) University. He is a coresearcher on Transit Labour: Circuits, Regions, Borders (www.transitlabour.asia).
Trebor Scholz is an artist, writer, catalyst, and chair of the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture at The New School in New York City, where he is an Associate Professor ofCulture and Media. His forthcoming monograph with
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