Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and Interim Associate Director of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at NCSU. Her research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape people's interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of Digital Cityscapes—Merging digital and urban playspaces, the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of Net-Locality: Why location matters in a networked world, and the co-author (with Jordan Frith) of Mobile interfaces in public spaces: Control, privacy, and urban sociability.

Heather Horst

Heather A. Horst is a Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and a Research Fellow in the MA Program in Digital Anthropology at University College London. Her current research includes a study of mobiles, money and mobility in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
A sociocultural anthropologist by training, Heather’s research focuses upon the relationship between place, space and new media. Specifically, her work explores transformations in the organization and understandings of family life in light of new media, material and consumer culture, and transnational migration.

Lee Humphreys

Dr. Lee Humphreys studies the social uses and perceived effects of communication technology. Her research has explored mobile phone use in public spaces, emerging norms on mobile social networks, and the privacy and surveillance implications of location-based services. Her recent scholarship tries to historicize social media into a broader context of communication practices. Often using qualitative field methods, she focuses on how people integrate communication technology in their everyday lives in order to facilitate identity management and social interaction. She received her MA and PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ole B. Jensen

Ole B. Jensen is professor of Urban Theory in the Department of Architecture and Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His background is in sociology and he is associated to the Urban Design research group. His research interests are within the fields of mobilities research, urban studies, urban design, infrastructure architectures and city branding/cultural planning. He participates in several research networks such as the Center for Mobility and Urban Studies (C-MUS), the Cosmobilities Network, the Pan-American Mobilites Network, the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMore), and The Center for Mobilities Research and Policy (mCenter).

Mimi Sheller

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and Director of the new Mobilities Research and Policy Center at Drexel University. She also holds a continuing appointment as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University (UK) and is founding co-editor of the international journal Mobilities. She is on the international editorial boards of the journals Cultural Sociology, and African and Black Diaspora. She is the author of the books Consuming the Caribbean (2003), Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (2000); and recently completed Citizenship from Below: Caribbean Agency and Modern Freedom (forthcoming, Duke University Press).

Irina Shklovski

Irina Shklovski is an assistant professor in the Design, Culture, Mobility & Communication (DCMC) research group at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She has broad interests ranging from issues of privacy and identity to investigating the role of technology in disaster. Specifically, her research focuses on how people use such technologies to cope with adverse circumstances, to maintain their social relationships locally, long distance and transnationaly, and to navigate and interact in urban spaces. Her main research focus right now is on cultural differences in relationship maintenance and the meaning relationships hold for individuals involved in them.

Phillip Vannini

Phillip Vannini is Associate Professor at Royal Roads University in Canada. In November 2010, he was appointed Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Innovative Learning and Public Ethnography. Within the School of Communication and Culture, he teaches courses in fieldwork, research methodology, and cultural studies. He supervises theses in his areas of expertise, especially when stuydents' work employs ethnography and alternative modes of representation. His research interests include public ethnography, mobilities, material culture and technology, social aspects of the human body and the senses, cultural geographies of everyday life, and interactionism and non-representational theory.