Gerard Goggin is Distinguished Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. Goggin has authored and edited several books on mobile media and communication, including: the trilogy Cell Phone Culture (2006), Global Mobile Media (2011) and Apps (2021); with Larissa Hjorth, Mobile Technologies (2008) and Mobile Media Methods (2024); with Rowan Wilken, Mobile Technology and Place (2012), Locative Media (2015) and Location Technologies in International Context (2019; also with Heather Horst). He also has a long-standing interest in disability, media and digital technology and rights, with key books including Disability and the Media (2015) and the co-edited Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2020). Larissa Hjorth is a digital ethnographer, socially engaged artist and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Media & Communication at RMIT University. Hjorth has two decades' experience leading mobile media projects to explore innovative methods around intergenerational connection, intimacy, games, play, loss and death in the Asia-Pacific region (Japan, South Korea, China and Australia). Hjorth's Future Fellowship explores mobile media mourning rituals. She is the author of Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (2009), Games and Gaming (2010), Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia-Pacific (with Michael Arnold, 2013) and Understanding Social Media (with Sam Hinton, 2013).
