About the Editors

Shelia R. Cotten, sociologist, is Professor in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University. She studies technology use across the life course and the social, educational, and health outcomes of using technologies. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Her work has been recently published in Computers & Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Applied Gerontology, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and Information, Communication, and Society. She, Laura Robinson, and Jeremy Schultz are the editors of the Emerald Series in Media and Communications. She was the Chair of the Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA) during 2012–2013. In 2013, she won the award for Public Sociology from the Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association.

Timothy M. Hale, PhD, is Associate Director of User Centered Design for Partners Healthcare, Connected Health Innovation (CHI). He is a medical sociologist whose research interest is the use of communication technology and connected devices to improve healthcare delivery. Hale’s research focuses on digital inequalities in connected health and how this impacts health disparities. Prior to joining CHI, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he studied the social and psychological impacts of technology, focusing primarily on youth and older adults. His work has been published in Information, Communication & Society; Computers and Human Behavior; Journal of Health Communication; and Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Laura Robinson is Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University. Robinson has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Visiting Scholar at Trinity College Dublin, and Postdoctoral Researcher at USC Annenberg. She earned her PhD from UCLA, where she held a Mellon Fellowship in Latin American Studies and received a Bourse d’Accueil at the École Normale Supérieure. Her research has earned awards from CITASA, AOIR, and NCA IICD. Robinson’s research examines digital and informational inequalities, interaction and identity work, and digital media in Brazil, France, and the United States. Her website is www.laurarobinson.org.

Jeremy Schulz is Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley (PhD UC Berkeley, NSF Postdoc Cornell University). He has published on a broad range of themes, including consumption, work, family, culture, and inequalities. Recent publications include “Talk of Work” published in Theory and Society and “Shifting Grounds and Evolving Battlegrounds,” published in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. His article “Winding Down the Workday,” published in Qualitative Sociology, received the Shils-Coleman Award from the ASA Theory Section. His current research examines peer-to-peer consumption, wealth trajectories, indebtedness, and innovative qualitative methods. His website is www.jeremyschulz.org.

Apryl Williams is Diversity Fellow and doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and a research associate at the Center on Conflict and Development at Texas A&M University. Her current research explores media, communication, and digital inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her other work focuses on raced based differences in social media use among American millennials and has been published in the International Journal of Communication and Information, Communication & Society. Williams’ additional research interests include postmodernism, identity, race and class, social theory, and fat studies.