Hitting middle age never felt so good: introduction to the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technologies section 2013 special issue

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Notes on contributors

Jennifer Earl is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology and Society at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on social movements, information and communication technologies, and the sociology of law, with research emphases on online protest and social movement repression. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research from 2006-2011 on Web activism and a member of the MacArthur Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics. She has published widely, including an MIT Press book, co-authored with Katrina Kimport, entitled Digitally Enabled Social Change.

Katrina Kimport is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and social movements. Dr. Kimport's work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, and Symbolic Interaction. She is the author, with Jennifer Earl, PhD, of Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age (2011, MIT Press) and of Queering Marriage: Challenging Family Formation in the United States (2014, Rutgers University Press).