About David Gauntlett
 
David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster. CAMRI is officially ranked as the leading centre of media and communications research in the UK (see RAE 2008).

He is the author of several books on media and identities, and the everyday creative use of digital media. These include Moving Experiences (1995, second edition 2005), Video Critical (1997), TV Living (with Annette Hill, 1999), Media, Gender and Identity (2002, second edition 2008), and Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences (2007). He also edited two editions of the book Web Studies (2000, 2004).

He produces the popular website about media and identities, Theory.org.uk, and has pioneered the use of creative and visual research methods, for which he has created the hub at ArtLab.org.uk.

His work has been discussed in all national UK newspapers, from The Observer to The Sun; internationally in the New York Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Australian; on BBC News, and elsewhere.

In 2007 he was shortlisted for Young Academic Author of the Year in the Times Higher Awards, and in 2008 was one of ten 'leading thinkers' interviewed about the future for The Independent's Visionaries supplement.

Details of all the above can be found at http://www.theory.org.uk/david.