Jennifer R. Whitson is a sociologist studying the secret life of software, the people who create it, and their often overlooked impact on our lives. You can find her work on games, play and surveillance online in FibreCulture, First Monday, and Surveillance & Society, as well as in MIT Press' edited collection, The Gameful World. She is an Assistant Professor in Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo in Canada and an ethnographer in Montreal.