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Hannah R. Gerberis an associate professor in the Department of Language, Literacy and Special Populations at Sam Houston State University in Texas, where she teaches graduate courses in digital epistemologies and virtual ethnography. Gerber’s research has focused on adolescents and their videogaming practices, examining confluences of learning across various literacies in multiple online and offline settings. She has conducted research in such diverse environments as homes, libraries, and schools, and within inner-city, rural, and international contexts in North America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. She has given lectures and keynote addresses on her research at conferences and universities around the world. Gerber’s recent publications can be found in English Journal, Educational Media International, and The ALAN Review. She is coeditor of Bridging Literacies with Videogames.Sandra Schamroth Abramsis an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at St. John’s University in New York. Her research of digital literacies and videogaming focuses on agentive learning, layered meaning making, and pedagogical discovery located at the intersection of online and offline experiences. Her recent work appears in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, the Journal of Literacy Research, and Educational Media International. She is the author of Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6–12 Classrooms: A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making and the coeditor of Bridging Literacies with Videogames.Jen Scott Curwoodis a senior lecturer in English education and media studies at the University of Sydney in Australia. Her research focuses on literacy, technology, and teacher professional development. She has recently investigated young adults’ writing practices in online spaces and teachers’ integration of digital tools in content area classrooms. Curwood’s scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Literacy Research, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Teaching Education, and Learning, Media, and Technology.Alecia Marie Magnificois an assistant professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, where she teaches courses on English teaching, digital literacies, and research methods. Magnifico’s research interests focus on understanding, supporting, and encouraging adolescents’ writing for different audiences. Much of her writing in this area describes and theorizes composition across formal and informal contexts. She also works with teachers to design curricula and assessments that engage digital tools and multiple literacies. She enjoys the challenge of developing research methods to represent what happens in these complex social learning spaces. Magnifico’s recent work can be found in Literacy, the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and E-Learning and Digital Media.