Mark Davis teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is the co-editor (with Miriam Lyons) of More Than Luck: Ideas Australia Needs Now (2010), and the author of The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s (2008) and Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism (1997, 1999). His research focuses on the impacts of networked digital media on democratic culture.