Nancy Baym

Nancy Baym has been writing and teaching about social uses and consequences of the internet for more than 15 years. She’s written many widely-cited articles about online community, fandom, and the intersections between on and offline social life , and also a book Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community (Sage Press, Inc.). Her work has been translated into several languages. She is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Kansas, where she is an award-winning teacher on topics including the use of new communication technologies in creating identities, relationships and communities, interpersonal communication, and qualitative research methods. She is a co-founder and Past-President of the Association of Internet Researchers, an international interdisciplinary association, and serves on the editorial boards of the premiere journals in the field.