Contributors
- Contributors
James W. Cortada is a member of the IBM Institute for Business Value. He has published several dozen books on the role of information technology, information, and Spanish diplomatic history. Recent publications include Information in the Modern Corporation (MIT Press, 2011), History Hunting (M. E. Sharpe, 2012), and Modern Warfare in Spain (Potomac, 2012). Cortada has also published articles in the Journal of Library History, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Historian, Historical Methods, and Journal of Knowledge Management.
Hamid R. Ekbia is associate professor of information science and cognitive science and the director of the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction at the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, where he teaches Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, and Geographic Information Systems. His research is focused on how technologies mediate interactions among people, organizations, and communities.
Megan Finn is a postdoc at Microsoft Research New England in the Social Media Collective research group, where she does research about public information infrastructure, the history of information, and crisis informatics. Megan received her PhD from UC Berkeley’s School of Information in 2012. Her dissertation, “Californians and Their Earthquakes: Post-earthquake Public Information Infrastructures,” examined how people communicated after earthquakes in 1868, 1906, and 1989 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Megan has a BS in computer science from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in information management and systems from Berkeley, and when she has free time, she enjoys doing screen printing and letterpress.
Venkata Ratnadeep Suri has completed his PhD in Mass Communication from the Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington. Earlier he earned a master’s degree in communication from Western Michigan University and a master’s degree in development communication at the University of Hyderabad, India. [End Page 279]
Michael Riordan has been the college archivist for both St. John’s College and the Queen’s College in the University of Oxford for over a decade, having previously worked at Lambeth Palace Library. He has presented and published on a range of topics, including the history of record keeping, historiography, politics and religion in sixteenth-century England, and archival theory and practice. He is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His current research investigates the interactivity between historians and archivists in Victorian England. [End Page 280]
