Jonas Larsen (editor) - Digital Snaps: The New Face of Photography

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Joanne Garde-Hansen , PhD, Associate Professor of Culture, Media and Communication in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick. She has co-edited, with Andrew Hoskins and Anna Reading, Save As Digital Memories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), sole-authored Media and Memory (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), co-edited with Owain Jones Geography and Memory (Palgrave Memory Studies Series, 2012) and co-authored with Kristyn Gorton Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). As well as having published journal articles on memory, media, archiving, nostalgia and ageing, Garde-Hansen leads the academic research on a number of community media projects in the UK that focus upon the use of digital storytelling, photographs, television and film for understanding personal memory and local heritage.

Anne Jerslev , PhD, Professor in Film and Media Studies at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen. She currently researches contemporary processes of celebrification. Jerslev has published numerous articles and books about contemporary film and television culture, media reception and reality television. She has edited Realism and Reality in Film and Media (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002). Together with Professor Lcia Nagib from the University of Reading she co-edited the volume Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film, published in 2014 by I.B.Tauris. Recent publications include Challenging genre genre challenges: new media, new boundaries, new formations ( MedieKultur , 51, 2011; co-edited with Mette Mortensen and Line Nybro Petersen) and The post-perspectival: screens and time in David Lynchs Inland Empire ( Journal of Aesthetics & Culture , 4, 2012).

Jonas Larsen , Associate Professor in Geography at Roskilde University, Denmark. Larsens research focuses on mobility, tourism and media. He has been conducting ethnographic studies and has published on mobile methods and ethnographic studies of mobility. His recent publications include Tourism, Performance and the Everyday: Consuming the Orient (Routledge, 2010; with Michael Haldrup) and The Tourist Gaze 3.0 (Sage, 2011; with John Urry). He is also the author of Performativity, space, and tourism as part of The Routledge Handbook of Tourism (Routledge, 2011) and Tourism and distance and proximity as part of the forthcoming The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (Routledge, 2013).

Sigrid Lien , PhD, Professor at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen. She has written the first comprehensive Norwegian history of photography, Norsk fotohistorie: fr daguerreotype til digitalisering (Det Norske Samlaget, 2007; with Peter Larsen) and Lengselens bilder (SAP, 2009). Lien is currently involved in the HERA-funded research project PhotoCLEC, which explores how photographs have been used in museums to communicate the colonial past in a contemporary multicultural Europe. Recent publications include Absence and presence: the work of photographs in the Smi Museum in Karasjok, Norway in a special issue of Photography & Culture , and the upcoming Museumsfortellinger (Det Norske Samlaget, 2014).

Martin Lister , Professor Emeritus in Visual Culture at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. His recent publications include a second edition of New Media: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2008),The times of photography in Time, Media and Modernity (Palgrave, 2012) and a new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (Routledge, 2013). He is an editor of the journal Photographies .

Mette Mortensen , PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen. She has written the monograph Kampen om ansigtet: fotografi og identifikation (Museum Tusculanums, 2012) and has co-edited several books and special issues of journals. She has published articles in journals such as The International Journal of Cultural Studies , Global Media and Communication , and Digital Journalism . She is currently writing the book Eyewitness Images and Journalism: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict to be published by Routledge in 2014.

Gillian Rose , PhD, Professor of Cultural Geography at the Open University, UK. Her current research interests focus on contemporary visual culture, ways of seeing in domestic and public spaces, and visual research methodologies. One long-term project has examined family photos as visual objects that circulate between a range of different practices in the global visual economy, and her monograph Doing Family Photography: The Domestic, the Public and the Politics of Sentiment was published by Ashgate in 2010. Another, even longer project has been the book Visual Methodologies ; a third edition was published early in 2012. She is currently examining how architects work with digital visualizing technologies.