Jessa Lingel is an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and core faculty in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.  She received her PhD in communication and information from Rutgers University.  She has an MLIS from Pratt Institute and an MA in gender studies from New York University.  Her research interests include digital inequalities and technological distributions of power. Using qualitative methods, Lingel studies how marginalized and countercultural groups use and reshape digital media.