Anastasia Salter is an assistant professor of Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore. Her primary research is on digital narratives with a continuing focus on virtual worlds, gender and cyberspace, video games, educational games and fan production. She holds a Doctorate in Communications Design from the University of Baltimore and is also in the process of completing her thesis for the MFA in Children's Literature at Hollins University. She blogs for ProfHacker (http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/asalter), writes a weekly column speculating on the future of technology and pop culture for CinCity2000, Future Fragments (http://www.cc2konline.com/component/content/category/131-future-fragments), and occasionally blogs (http://selfloud.net). She's on Twitter as @AnaSalter.
