John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. He completed his PhD in the UW-Madison English department’s Composition and Rhetoric program in 2010. Rik’s research interests include collaborative writing, new media, fan studies, collective intelligence, and authorship and audience. His dissertation, “A Hypersocial-Interactive Model of Writing: Collaboration, Conversation, and Composition in an Online Fan Community of Writers,” developed an understanding of how the interaction of wiki technology and the social practices of the WoWWiki community shape collaborative online composition. He is @rikhunter on Twitter.