Alec Charles is Principal Lecturer in Media at the University of Bedfordshire. He is author of Interactivity: New Media, Politics and Society (2012), editor of Media in the Enlarged Europe (2009) and co-editor of The End of Journalism (2011). Recent publications include contributions to Science Fiction Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television, Journal of Popular Television and Utopian Studies. He has previously worked as a documentary programme-maker for BBC Radio and as a print journalist.