William Bainbridge is a sociologist of religion, science and popular culture. He is co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the National Science Foundation and a senior fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He teaches sociology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. In 2013, he published eGods: Faith Versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming, which presents research gained from more than 2,400 hours of ethnographic study of massively multiplayer online (MMO) game religious practices. He is also an expert on the Children of God, commonly called The Family, an end-times New Religious Movement.
| Website | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sims_Bainbridge |
| Email address | wbainbri@nsf.gov |
| Phone number | 703-292-8930 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Science & health, Society & culture, Sports & games |
| Locations | North America, United States of America, Virginia, Washington, D.C. |
| Faiths | Interfaith |