Nathan is a social media theorist, a contributing editor for The New Inquiry, researcher with Snapchat, co-founder and chair of the Theorizing the Web conference, and is pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Maryland. His research is driven most fundamentally by the understanding that the informational and embodied, the digital and physical, the on and offline, are enmeshed rather than distinct, what Nathan coined “digital dualism” to describe. Nathan lives in New York City and is currently writing a book about social media and photography.