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Notes on contributorsxveconomics. She is the author of three monographs, co-editor of the RussianMedia Challenge (2001, 2002), and author of seventy articles in Russian andforeign academic journals.Barry Wellman is a sociologist who directs NetLab at the University ofToronto’s Center for Urban and Community Studies. He founded theInternational Network for Social Network Analysis in 1976. In addition tomore than two hundred articles, he has co-edited Social Structures: A NetworkApproach (1988), Networks in the Global Village (1999), and The Internet inEveryday Life (2002).Rosalind Williams is Metcalfe Professor of Writing and Director of theProgram in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology. In 2005 she will be President of the Society for the History ofTechnology. A cultural historian of technology, her most recent work isRetooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change (2002).Steve Woolgar is a sociologist who holds the Chair of Marketing and isDirector of Research at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford.He is also a member of the Management Board of the Oxford InternetInstitute. From 1997 to 2002 he was Director of the ESRC Programme VirtualSociety? The Social Science of Electronic Technologies, comprising twentytworesearch projects throughout the United Kingdom. He was formerlyProfessor of Sociology and Director of CRICT at Brunel University. He haspublished widely in social studies of science and technology, social problems,and social theory. He is the editor of Virtual Society? Technology, Cyberbole,Reality (2002).Caitlin Zaloom is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the MetropolitanStudies Program at New York University. Her work on technologies of financeand risk-taking has appeared in American Ethnologist and CulturalAnthropology. Her book The Discipline of Speculators: Trading andTechnology from Chicago to London is forthcoming from the University ofChicago Press.