David Gauntlett

• Professor of Media and Communications, and Co-Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster

• Author of several books on media and identities, and the everyday creative use of digital media

  E.g. Moving Experiences (1995, second edition 2005) and Video Critical (1997)

• Most recent book is Making is Connecting: The social meaning of creativity, from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 (2011)

• He has conducted collaborative research with a number of the world's leading creative organisations, including the BBC, Lego, and Tate