John Postill (PhD, UCL) is a collaborator with For Digital Dignity, Project ONLINERPOL and Senior Lecturer in Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Formerly he was a Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at RMIT and a Digital Anthropology Fellow at University College London (UCL).

His publications include Localizing the Internet (2011), Media and Nation Building (2006) and the co-edited volume Theorising Media and Practice (2010, with Birgit Bräuchler). Currently he is writing a book titled Nerd Politics: Digital Activism and Political Change (London: Pluto), and the co-edited volume Theorising Media and Change (with Elisenda Ardèvol and Sirpa Tenhunen)