Jarice Hanson Jarice Hanson is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her research focuses on the impact of new technology. She formerly held the Verizon Chair in Telecommunications at Temple Univesity, and was the founding Dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University. She received her MA and PhD at Northwestern Universitys Department of Radio-TV-Film. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles, including The Economic Encyclopedia of Social Media: Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting (Greenwood, 2016) and 24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work and Play (Praeger, 2007), Constructing Americas War Culture: Iraq, Media, and Images at Home (coedited with Thomas Conroy) (Lexington Books, 2007), and The Unconnected: Participation, Engagement, and Social Justice in the Information Society (coedited with Paul M. A. Baker and Jeremy Hunsinger) (Peter Lang, 2013). Read More Read Less