Janna Quitney Anderson is the director of the major international resource Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast (www.imaginingtheinternet.org), an initiative of the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University. The site is a Webby Awards Honoree. She is the lead author of the "Future of the Internet" book series published by Cambria Press and wrote the book "Imagining the Internet" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), designated as a 2006 American Library Association "Choice" book - a must-have book for library reference collections. Her expertise is concentrated in the fields of the future of the internet and communications; internet history; futures studies; and print/online journalism. She has been working on research projects funded by grants from Pew Internet since 2000, and she has appeared as a speaker and participant in numerous international conferences on the future of information technologies, including the Metaverse Roadmap Project (http://metaverseroadmap.org/) investigating the future of social networks on the 3D Internet. She also serves as a contributor to the annual "State of the Future" reports published by the WFUNA Millennium Project (http://www.acunu.org/millennium/mpflyer-2007.html and http://www.millennium-project.org). She was on the steering committee of the WWW2010 international conference and directed FutureWeb (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com). She enjoyed a 20-year career reporting and editing for daily newspapers prior to joining the faculty at Elon in 1999. She is an editorial board member of the Newspaper Research Journal and a reviewer for New Media & Society. She is also an assistant professor in Elon University's School of Communications. She teaches a general studies course tied to Futures Studies in addition to courses in the interactive media and Journalism departments at Elon. Winner of several web-design awards from AEJMC and BEA.

BA, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1978
MA, University of Memphis, 1999

• "Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
• "Conflicting Desires: The Future of the Internet I" (Pew Internet 2005/Cambria Press 2007)
• "Hopes and Fears: The Future of the Internet II" (Pew Internet 2006/Cambria Press 2007)
• "Online Daily Newspaper Ethics" (AEJMC and Newspaper Research Journal, 2001)
• "One Neighborhood, One Week on the Internet" (USA Today, July 31, 2001)
• "Ubiquity, Mobility, Security: The Future of the Internet III" (Pew Internet 2008/Cambria Press 2009, )

• Mainstage speaker at Acceleration Studies Foundation conference Accelerating Change.
• Reviewer for the journal New Media & Society.
• Director of Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast, and author and co-editor of the the Pew Internet Project's series of "Future of the Internet" surveys.
• Member of the Internet Society.
• Consultant, Metaverse Roadmap Summit, mapping the future of the 3D Internet.
• Editorial Board member, Newspaper Research Journal.
• Director of the FutureWeb conference and member of the organizing committee of the WWW2010 international conference.
• Lead author of the "Future of the Internet" book series published by Cambria Press and sole author of "Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives."
• Conducted ethnographic interviews at the Internet Governance Forums in Athens, Greece; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
• Mentored more than 100 students in undergraduate research projects, including many National Conferences on Undergraduate Research presenters.
• Contributor to the State of the Future reports annually published by The Millennium Project of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.
• Member of the Association of Internet Researchers.
• Winner of a Webby Awards Honoree designation and multiple national awards for website design.

The future of information and communications technologies, internet history, online journalism ethics, World Wide Web, technology development and diffusion, futures studies, social networks, metaverse, emerging media, journalism, newspapers, magazines.