Tiziana Terranova teaches, researches, lectures and writes about the culture and political economy of digital media and network cultures. She is currently Associate Professor in Cultural Studies and Digital Media at the Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’ where she co-founded the Technoculture Research Unit (www.technoculture.it). She is the author of Network Culture: politics for the information age (Pluto Press, 2004) and numerous other essays and reviews published in newspapers, magazines, websites and journals (il manifesto, mute, social text, theory, culture and society). She is a member of the editorial board of the journals Theory, Culture and Society; New Formations; Subjectivity, and Studi Culturali. She is currently working on a new book on the genealogy of digital social networks (Hypersocial. Minnesota University Press, forthcoming) and a collection of her essays on automation, neuro-capitalism, social cooperation and the commons is also to be published soon by Semiotext(e).