Sandra Ponzanesi is Associate Professor of gender and postcolonial critique at Utrecht University (The Netherlands), department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Program. She is project leader of ‘Wired Up’. She is also coordinator of the EU 7th framework project 'Mig@net: Transnational Digital Network, Migration and Gender', principal investigator of the NWO international program PEN (Postcolonial Europe Network) and  coordinator of the Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI). She has published on post-colonial critique, European identities, comparative migration studies and literatures, transnational feminism, visual culture and postcolonial cinema. Among her publications are: Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture (Albany: Suny Press, 2004), Migrant Cartographies (Lexington Books, 2005) with Daniela Merolla, Postcolonial Cinema Studies (Routledge, 2011) with Marguerite Waller and Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (Routledge, 2011) with Bolette B. Blaagaard. MORE

Mariëtte de Haan is professor of Intercultural Education, holding an endowed chair on youth & education in multicultural settings at the Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Utrecht University. She is project leader of 'Wired Up'. Her past research interests concerned  cultural diversity in practices of learning and socialization, and more specifically on non-western learning (Learning as Cultural Practice, 1999), issues related to multi-ethnic classrooms (Reshaping Diversity in a Local Classroom, 2005) and to migrant parenting (The reconstruction of parenting after migration: A perspective from cultural translation, to appear in 2011). Her recent research interests concern how practices of socialisation and learning develop over time, in culturally highly diverse settings, such as those associated with the 'migrant condition' representing a world that is increasingly in motion (Immigrant learning, 2011). MORE

Kevin M. Leander is Associate Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University (USA). He is project leader of ‘Wired Up’. He is also a leader in the 'Space, Learning, and Mobility' (SLaM) group at Vanderbilt, engaged in NSF-funded research on spatial thinking. His research interests include the new literacy practices of youth, spatial approaches to understanding youth identity and learning, research on new media, and media and migration. He has published widely in venues such as Review of Research in Education, Ethos, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, and Cognition and Instruction. He has also authored and co-authored handbook chapters on youth and new media, multimodality, and mobile technologies. Leander is also co-editor (with Margaret Sheehy) of Spatializing Literacy Research and Practice (Peter Lang, 2004). MORE

Fadi Hirzalla is a post-doctoral researcher in the 'Wired Up' project at the Department of Media and Culture Studies of Utrecht University. His research focuses the relationships between political citizenship, identity and new media, focusing on youth, ethnic minorities and Islam. He completed a PhD thesis and a research project (CivicWeb) at ASCOR on the role of the internet in young people's civic lives. Recent publications: Hirzalla, F. & Van Zoonen, L. (2011). Beyond the online/offline divide: Convergences of online and offline forms of participation among youth. Social Science Computer Review; Hirzalla, F., Van Zoonen, L. & De Ridder, J. (2011). Internet use and political participation: Reflections on the mobilization/normalization controversy. The Information Society, 27(1), 1-15; Hirzalla, F. & Banaji, S. (2011). Young people's online civic participation. Encyclopedia of Cyber Behaviour. Hersey: IGI Global. MORE
 

Fleur Prinsen is a post-doctoral researcher in the 'Wired Up' project at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Utrecht University. Her research interests include diversity, Identity formation in online social networks, multi-literacies and computer supported collaborative learning environments. Previously she has contributed to research at the University of Toronto and in Singapore on knowledge building and scientific literacy. Among her publications are: Prinsen, F.R., Volman, M.L.L. & Terwel, J. (2006). The influence of learner characteristics on degree and type of participation in a CSCL environment. British Journal of Educational Technology, 38(6), 1037-1055. Prinsen, F.R., Volman, M.L.L., Terwel, J. & Van Den Eeden, P. (2009). Effects on participation of an experimental CSCL-programme to support elaboration: Do all students benefit? Computers & Education;  Scardamalia, M., Teplovs, C., Chuy, M. & Prinsen, F.R. (2010). MORE
 

Koen Leurs is a PhD candidate in the 'Wired Up' project at the Department of Media and Culture Studies of Utrecht University.  His research project focuses on digital media use among migrant youth. He examines the gendered and ethnic interfacing of digital technologies, migration and global/local youth cultures. He also participates in the European 'Mig@Net' project exploring education and knowledge in the contexts of transnational digital networks, migration and gender. Among his recent publications are 'Communicative spaces of their own: migrant girls performing selves using instant messaging software' in Feminist Review (2011, vol. 99), 'Mediated crossroads: youthful digital diasporas' in M/C Journal (2011, vol. 14.2), and 'Dutch-Moroccan girls performing their selves in Instant Messaging spaces' in The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media ed. Karen Ross (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell), all with Sandra Ponzanesi. MORE
 

Asli Ünlüsoy is a PhD candidate in the 'Wired Up' project at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Utrecht University. Her research activities revolve around networked learning, informal learning relations, Turkish-Dutch youth, new media practices, and migrant and youth cultures. She studied Journalism (BA) at Ankara University, Early Childhood Education (MSc) at Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey), and Development and Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence (MSc, research master) at Utrecht University. She has published on new literacies and out-of-school learning, and digital networks' potential for learning. Ünlüsoy, A., de Haan, M., Leseman, P. M., & van Kruistum, C. (2010). Gender differences in adolescents' out-of-school literacy practices: A multifaceted approach. Computers & Education, 55(2), 742-751.Ünlüsoy, A., Haan, de M., & Leander, K. (2010). Netwerken van jongeren als nieuwe leeromgevingen. Pedagogiek, 30 (1), 43-57. MORE
 

Lisa Schwartz is an international researcher in the 'Wired Up' project. She recently graduated with a doctorate in Language Reading and Culture from the University of Arizona and is now post-doctoral research associate at University of Colorado. Her work examines how new forms of social and tool-based mediation derived from the context of emerging technologies can support learning. Her research involves designing and researching systems of expansive learning across multiple discursive and spatial domains, working primarily with youth from diverse racial, working-class and immigrant backgrounds. She has several publications in process drawn from her dissertation research, including a chapter in an upcoming compilation on time and space in literacy research, as well as a forthcoming paper on Wired Up survey research with Latino youth that she coordinated in Arizona. MORE