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Benjamin Woo is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He studies the social worlds of contemporary ‘geek culture’, with a particular focus on the producers, intermediaries, and audiences oriented to comic books and graphic novels. Stuart R. Poyntz is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. His research addresses children’s media cultures, theories of public life, and urban youth media production. He is President of the Association for Research in the Cultures of Young People. Jamie Rennie is an instructor in the Communications Department at Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on media literacy in Canadian schools and the various pedagogical approaches to teaching about and through contemporary media.