Koen Leurs is Assistant Professor in Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He chairs the European Communication Research and Education (ECREA) Diaspora, Migration and the Media section. Recently, he guest-edited the issues “Forced migration and digital connectivity” with Kevin Smets for Social Media + Society and “Connected Migrants” with Sandra Ponzanesi for Popular Communication. His next monograph is titled Digital Migration (Sage).