Larissa Hjorth is an artist, digital ethnographer and senior lecturer in the Games Programs, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University. Since 2000, Hjorth has been researching and publishing on gendered personalisation of mobile communication, gaming and virtual communities in the Asia–Pacific — these studies are outlined in her book, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (London, Routledge, 2009). Hjorth has published widely on the topic in over a dozen journal articles and over twenty book chapters. In 2009 she co-edited two Routledge anthologies, Gaming Cultures and Place in the Asia–Pacific region (with Dean Chan) and Mobile technologies: from Telecommunication to Media (with Gerard Goggin) and in 2010 Hjorth released Games & Gaming textbook (London: Berg). Since 2009 she has been an Australian Research Council APD fellow exploring the relationship between online and offline communities in the Asia-Pacific with Michael Arnold. This three year study focuses upon six locations (Manila Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore and Melbourne).