Indira Neill Hoch, received her PhD in Communication from University of Illinois at Chicago, focused on new and social media, fandom, and online boundary maintenance. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication at University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA. Her research areas include social and new media, disinformation studies, social construction of technology, repair work, and nostalgia. She is a co-editor of a tumblr book: platform and cultures (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Her scholarship on social media has appeared in Transformative Works and Cultures, and Social Media + Society. She also has contributed chapters on gaming and gaming fan cultures to several edited collections.