Simeon J. Yates, PhD, is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Liverpool. He led the UK Economic and
Social Research Council's commissioned project "Ways of Being in a Digital Age" and has conducted research across the social, cultural and political impacts of digital media.
Ronald E. Rice, PhD, is the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published over a dozen books on communication studies throughout his career.