Thomas Streeter studies the Internet and media at the University of Vermont. His Selling the Air (University of Chicago Press 1996) won the McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research. Other publications include The Moment of Wired (Critical Inquiry) and The Romantic Self and the Politics of Internet Commercialization (Cultural Studies). He has taught at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Southern California, and in 2000 2001 was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.