David Croteau is a sociologist who teaches and writes about the media, social movements, and class inequality. His books include Politics and the Class Divide (Temple University Press, 1994) and Media/Society (with William Hoynes, Sage Publications, 2014). He is one of the editors of Rhyming Hope and History: Activists, Academics, and Movement Scholarship (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). His current work experiments with innovative uses of digital technology in teaching and learning.