Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction

David Gauntlett is a professor in the Faculty of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK. His teaching and research is about self-initiated everyday creativity, and cultures of making and sharing. He is the author of several books, including Creative Explorations (Routledge), Making Is Connecting (Polity), and Making Media Studies (Peter Lang, will be published in 2015). He has worked with a number of the world's leading creative organizations, including the BBC, the British Library, and Tate. For almost a decade he has worked with the LEGO Group on innovation in creativity, play, and learning.