Research areas: College Students, College Students and Gaming, Communities, Copyright, Education, Intellectual Property, Internet in Daily Life, Music, Seniors, Technology Consumption, Teens, Terrorism, Workplace Steve Jones is Professor of Communication and Research Associate in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been using the internet since 1979 on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A social historian of communication technology, Jones is author/editor of nine books, including Society Online, Doing Internet Research, CyberSociety, and Virtual Culture. His books have earned him critical acclaim and interviews in national and international media. Jones was co-founder and first president of the Association of Internet Researchers. He has made numerous presentations to scholarl...