Lane DeNicola

Lane has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from RPI and prior to his graduate training worked for six years as a programmer and simulation designer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and finally at the Center for Space Research at MIT. His doctoral research entailed ethnographic work on the training of satellite image interpreters in India, and he is currently researching the use of satellite imagery and other "geomedia" by NGOs and advocacy groups. He is also completing a book under the title The Clickwheel Cargo Cult: Reading the Ipod as a Cultural Artifact.

Daniel Miller

Miller has carried several research projects on the media which have resulted in publications including The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (with D. Slater) Berg: Oxford 2000 and The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (with H Horst) Berg: Oxford 2006. He is currently working with Dr. M Madianou of Cambridge University on a project studying the impact of new media such as Facebook and Webcams on Filipina domestic workers in London and their left-behind children in the Philippines.