William Aspray is professor of information science and adjunct professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has formally taught at Harvard, Indiana (Bloomington), Penn, Rutgers (New Brunswick), Texas (Austin), Virginia Tech, and Williams. He has also served in senior management positions at the Charles Babbage Institute, Computing Research Association, and the IEEE History Center. He served as the editor in chief of Information & Culture: A Journal of History. His books in the information studies area include: Fake News Nation (with James Cortada, Rowman & Littlefield), From Urban Legends to Political Fact-checking (with James Cortada, Springer), Food in the Internet Age (with Melissa Ocepek and George Royer, Springer), Everyday Information (ed., with Barbara Hayes, MIT Press), Digital Media (ed., with Megan Winget, Scarecrow), and Privacy in America (ed., with Philip Doty, Scarecrow). Melissa G. Ocepek is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the School of Information Sciences. Her research draws on ethnographic methods and institutional ethnography to explore how individuals use information in their everyday lives. Her research interests include everyday information behavior, critical theory, and food. Dr. Ocepek has published two books that address the intersection of food, information, and culture: Food in the Internet Age and Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy (both with William Aspray and George Royer). Dr. Ocepek received her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information.
