Felicia Wu Song is a cultural sociologist with academic training in history and communication studies from Yale, Northwestern, and University of Virginia. She is currently assistant professor in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University where she teaches courses in mass media, advertising and persuasion. Her book, Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone, Online Together (Peter Lang, 2009) examines the social and cultural effects of the Internet on community, identity and the public sphere. Her latest project explores the cultural rise of mom bloggers and its impact on contemporary motherhood.