Anne Beaulieu (http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/en/nerdi2/) is a senior researcher with Networked Research and Digital Information, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, Amsterdam. Her work focuses on the interaction between new technologies and scientific research practices. She has pursued analyses of the development and consequences of digital imaging and databasing technologies for biomedical knowledge, including an ethnographic study of brain imaging in neuroscience. She has written about methodological issues regarding laboratory studies and online research, and about the intellectual agenda of current ethnographic research on the Internet. She is currently investigating issues of trust and space in the development of online infrastructure (collaboratories and data-sharing tools) for knowledge production.
Martin Dodge works at University College London, UK, as a researcher in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and lecturer in the Department of Geography. He has a degree in geography and computing, an MSc in geographical information systems and is currently completing his PhD. His work has been primarily concerned with developing a new research area of the geography of cyberspace, focusing in large part on the ways to map and visualize the Internet and the Web. He is the curator of a web-based Atlas of Cyberspace (http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas) and has co-authored two books with Rob Kitchin, Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge 2000) and Atlas of Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley 2001).
Kirsten A. Foot is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, USA. As co-director of the WebArchivist.org research group, she is developing new techniques for studying social and political action on the Web. Her research interests include co-production and mobilization on the Web, and online campaigning practices. She co-edits the Acting with Technology series at MIT Press, and her work has been published in journals such as Communication Theory, the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media and the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Maximilian C. Forte is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University College of Cape Breton, Canada. His doctoral research concerned practices of rep-
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