Mark Lipton is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies / Media Studies, University of Guelph. Lipton is the author of the media literacy textbook Smoke Screens: From Tobacco Outrage to Media Activism (with M. Dewing and Children’s Media Project, Children’s Health Initiative, 2002). He has written numerous monographs on the subject of communication, media, and education and is a coeditor of Visualizing the Web: Evaluating Online Design from A Visual Communication Perspective (2010), and author of Research, Write, Create: Connecting Scholarship to Digital Media (with T. Gibson, 2014). Research funding includes support from the Canadian Council on Learning, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Children’s Services Council, United Way, and others.