Brenda Danet is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she held the Danny Arnold Chair in Communication. She is currently a research affiliate of the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. She has been researching linguistic, visual and social aspects of communication and culture on the Internet since 1991. Her book, Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online (Berg, Oxford) appeared in 2001. She is now writing a sequel to Cyberpl@y, tentatively titled Pixel Patchwork: An Online Folk Art Community and Its Art.
Susan Herring is Professor of Information Science and Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington. She has been researching CMC, with special attention to gender and discourse, since 1991. In the mid-90s she began integrating this work with other language-focused CMC research in a linguistic approach known as computer-mediated discourse analysis. Currently, she is focusing on expanding the CMDA paradigm to multilingual and multimodal online communication. Her publications include Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-cultural Perspectives (Benjamins, 1996) and Computer-Mediated Conversation (Hampton, in press).