Contributors

Shaila Rana

Professor of Information Technology, Purdue Global, Purdue University

Professor of Information Technology, Purdue Global, Purdue University

Steven Downing

Associate Professor, Criminology, Ontario Tech University

Associate Professor, Criminology, Ontario Tech University Dr. Downing received his PhD in Criminology from The University of Texas at Dallas. His research has employed ethnography and mixed qualitative methods to study on and offline deviant and criminal subcultures as well as representations of crime in media such as film and video games. His current research considers how crime and deviance are framed, enacted, and may evolve in the emerging metaverse.

Sonja Utz

Professor of Communication Via Social Media, University of Tübingen

Professor of Communication Via Social Media, University of Tübingen Since March 2022, Sonja Utz has been head of the Everyday Media lab. From April 2013 to March 2022, she led the Junior Research Group, Social Media at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM). Since April 2014, she has also been Professor for communication via social media at the University of Tübingen. Together with her team, she studies the use of social and mobile media for knowledge acquisition and exchange, both in informal (e.g., “How to…” videos on YouTube) and professional settings (e.g., LinkedIn, ResearchGate). In addition, she works on algorithm acceptance and human-machine-communication. Sonja Utz has secured several prestigious grants. She brought an ERC grant to Tübingen and was successful in the Excellence Initiative. Sonja Utz studied psychology at the Catholic University of Eichstätt from 1991 to 1996, where she also earned her PhD in 1999. Her PhD thesis focused on social identification with virtual communities. Financed by a DFG-grant, she worked as PostDoc at the VU University Amsterdam, Department of Social Psychology. After 2.5 years at the Chemnitz University of Technology, she returned to VU University Amsterdam, this time to the Department of Communication Science. From 2011 to 2013, she also worked part-time as Associate professor for social media and reputation management at NHL Leeuwarden.

Sara Hellmüller

Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire

Professor, Head of the FERE Research Chair (Female Entrepreneurship for a Renewed Economy) Habilitée à diriger des recherches en sciences de gestion, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)

Professor, Head of the FERE Research Chair (Female Entrepreneurship for a Renewed Economy) Habilitée à diriger des recherches en sciences de gestion, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) Professeur senior à Grenoble École de Management, spécialisée en entrepreneuriat féminin. Elle réalise un second doctorat au sein du Centre de Recherche en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique (CRHAI) à l’université de Nantes. Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire is full professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management and head of the FERE Research Chair (Female Entrepreneurship for a Renewed Economy) she founded in 2016 and that focuses on Women inclusion into economic society in 8 countries. She authored several manuals in Innovation management (Pearson Education) and on Female Entrepreneurship (EE Publishers, Pearson...). Her research focuses on women inclusion through entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. She regularly publishes her research in peer reviewed academic journals. Her last publications refers to spousal support or spousal control to Syrian Women Refugee Entrepreneurs (with Dr. Rola Al Ali), warming NGO and policy makers on the limitations of their policies. She also worked on women inclusion in existing companies to enhance a strategic renewal that takes climate change into consideration and co-authored a series of articles in that respect. She also leds several programs on women inclusion in society by entrepreneuring.

Shane Darke

Professor at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Professor at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Professor Shane Darke has worked in the field of illicit drug research at NDARC since 1988. His area of research is the harm associated with illicit drug use, with a particular focus on mortality. He has published widely in the area of illicit drug use, including work on opioid overdose, psychostimulant overdose, psychopathology, suicide, trauma, treatment outcome and toxicology, and was among the 250 most cited sociology researchers in the world between 2000-2008, according to Thompson Reuters' Highly Cited Research. He was a senior investigator for the Australian Treatment Outcome Study, the first longitudinal study of outcome for the treatment of heroin dependence among different treatment modalities to be conducted in Australia. He is currently supervising projects on methamphetamine toxicity, methamphetamine and violence, and the toxicology of suicide victims. Professor Darke's research interests include: Heroin overdose, psychopathology and drug dependence, suicide and drug use, and drug-related trauma. He is the author of The life of the heroin user: Typical beginnings, trajectories and outcomes, First, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107000636