Annemarie Navar-Gill is a research assistant and graduate student instructor at the University of Michigan, Department of Communication Studies. She received her bachelor’s degree in Writing for Screen and Television from the University of Southern California and worked in the television industry for six years, most notably writing for the CW series Gossip Girl. She is broadly interested in both fan-created and media industry-sanctioned participatory cultures surrounding television and video games, with a focus on the ways in which online interactions between audiences and producers shape production and reception cultures.