The Editors: Mia Consalvo is Assistant Professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. She is the executive editor of the AoIR Internet Research Annual series, and she has also edited the volume Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency and Identity (Lang, 2002) with Susanna Paasonen. She is currently writing a book on the role of cheating in the digital game industry.
Matthew Allen is currently Associate Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. Program Chair for the 2003 AoIR conference from which this collection was drawn, Dr. Allen has most recently written about Internet policy in Australia and the development of broadband. He established the Internet Studies Program at Curtin and is now active in supervising doctoral students in this exciting transdisciplinary area.