Terri Senft
New York University Master Teacher
NYC New York USA
Sr Lecturer
University of East London
Theresa Senft, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East London, is interested in how the Internet has been changing our notions of the public, the private, the pornographic, and the pedagogic in contemporary society. For her last book, _Camgirls: Celebrity & Community in the Age of Social Networks_, Terri ran a webcam out of her own home for a year and charted her experiences interacting with viewers and other camgirls in spaces like LiveJournal and Facebook. Other books by Terri include _The Routledge Handbook of Social Media_(co-editor, forthcoming); _History of the Internet, 1843-Present_ (co-author); and a special issue of Women & Performance devoted to sexuality & cyberspace (co-editor.) Terri’s newest research on micro-celebrity (or “fame to fifteen people”) has been featured in Wired Magazine, The New York Times, national public radio (U.S., U.K. and Canada), and in the documentary Webcam Girls. Recent speaking engagements include TED salon (London), Harvard University’s Berkman Center, South by Southwest Interactive, and Oxford University’s forum on relationships and the internet.