Bastiaan Vanacker (PhD, University of Minnesota) is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago, where he also serves as the Program Director for the Center for Digital Ethics & ; Policy.Don Heider (PhD., University of Colorado) is a Professor in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago. He is the founding dean of the School, where he also helped found the Center for Digital Ethics & ; Policy.
He is the author and editor of six books, and a former journalist who won six Emmy awards for his work.