Author Biographies

Lucas Graves is a PhD candidate in Communications at Columbia University. His dissertation research uses network analysis to study structural changes in the current‐affairs ecosystem. Lucas has worked as a technology and media analyst with Digital Technology Consulting and before that with Jupiter Research, where he covered Web technology as well as online advertising and commerce. He is also is a longtime magazine journalist, now on the masthead of Wired magazine. Lucas holds an MA in Communications and an MS in Journalism from Columbiaʹs JSchool. John Kelly is a graduate of the PhD program in Communications at Columbia University and has studied communications at Stanford and at Oxford’s Internet Institute. His research blends Social Network Analysis, content analysis, and statistics to solve the problem of making complex online networks visible and understandable. John is the founder and lead scientist of Morningside Analytics, and previously served as Principal Investigator of Columbiaʹs Interactive Design Lab. He is an Affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.

Marissa Gluck is a writer, speaker and consultant covering the marketing and media industries. Marissa is founder and managing partner of Radar Research; formerly she worked as a senior analyst at Jupiter Research and as emerging technologies specialist at i‐traffic. She has advised clients including Interpublic Group, WPP, DoubleClick, Nielsen NetRatings, Google, CBS, AOL Time Warner, and the Norman Lear Center. Marissa holds masters degrees in Communications from the London School of Economics and from USCʹs Annenberg School.