xvi NOTES ONCONTRIBUTORS
Rebecca Eynon is an associate professor and senior research fellow at the University
of Oxford, where she holds a joint academic post between the Oxford Internet Insti-
tute (OII) and the Department of Education. Since 2000 her research has focused on
education, learning, and inequalities, and she has carried out projects in a range of
settings (higher education, schools, and the home) and life stages (childhood, ado-
lescence, and late adulthood). Rebecca is the coeditor of Learning, Media, and Tech-
nology. Her work has been supported by a range of funders including the British
Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission,
Google, and the Nominet Trust. Prior to joining Oxford in 2005, she held positions
as an ESRC postdoctoral fellow of the Department of Sociology, City University;
as a research fellow of the Department of Education, University of Birmingham;
and as a researcher for the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of
Leicester.
Oliver Ferschke is a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in the
Language Technologies Institute. He studies collaboration at scale and seeks to
understand how collaboration works in communities through the lens of language
and computational linguistics. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ubiq-
uitous Knowledge Processing Lab at TU Darmstadt, Germany, as well as an M.A. in
Linguistics and a teaching degree in computer science and English as a second lan-
guage from the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is furthermore the codirector
of the working group on Discussion Affordances for Natural Collaborative Exchange
(DANCE).
Nabeel Gillani is currently a product analyst at Khan Academy, working with a pas-
sionate team of designers, engineers, and others to help deliver a free, world‐class
education to anyone, anywhere. Previously, he cofounded the digital internships
platform Coursolve.org. He has worked with an interdisciplinary team at the Uni-
versity of Oxford, receiving grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and
Google to explore how social learning unfolds in online courses. He has an Sc.B.
in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Brown University and two
master’s degrees from the University of Oxford (education and technology, machine
learning), where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Isis Hjorth is a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute and a fellow at Kellogg
College, University of Oxford. She is a cultural sociologist, who specializes in ana-
lyzing emerging practices associated with networked technologies. She completed
her AHRC‐funded DPhil (Ph.D.) at the OII in January 2014. Trained in the social
sciences as well as the humanities, she holds a B.A. and M.A. in Rhetoric from the
Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen,
and an M.Sc. in Technology and Learning from the Department of Education,
University of Oxford. Prior to joining the academic community, she worked in
broadcast journalism and screenwriting in her native Copenhagen.
Donald Ipperciel is a professor of political philosophy at Glendon College, York
University, Canada. He obtained his doctorate at Ruprecht‐Karls‐ Universität in