Neta Alexander is a doctoral student in the department of Cinema Studies at New York University, researching streaming technologies and digital spectatorship. She is the recipient of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies’ Student Writing Award for 2016, and her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal, Film Quarterly, Media Fields, and Flow, among other publications.

Michael DeAngelis is Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies at DePaul University.  His new book on therapy and American cinema of the 1960s is being published by SUNY Press. 

Jeremy Druker is the executive director of Transitions (TOL), one of Central and Eastern Europe’s leading media development organizations, and editor in chief of Transitions Online. He is also founder/CEO of Press Start, the first global crowdfunding platform designed specifically to support journalists in countries where the press cannot report freely. At NYU Prague he teaches courses on the impact of social media on society.

Pepita Hesselberth is Assistant Professor of Film, Media and Digital Culture at Leiden University, and Research Fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Cinematic Chonotopes (Bloomsbury 2014) and, with Maria Poulaki, the editor of Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media (Bloomsbury 2017). Her project Disconnectivity in the Digital Age is funded by a fellowship from the Danish Council for Independent Research.

Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin.  She is the author, editor or co-editor of ten books, the most recent of which is The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness (Routledge, 2016).

Maria Poulaki is Lecturer in Film Studies and Digital Media Arts at the University of Surrey. She is author of various journal articles and book chapters and co-editor of Compact Cinematics (with P. Hesselberth, Bloomsbury 2017) and the forthcoming collection Narrative, Complexity and Cognition (with M. Grishakova, University of Nebraska Press 2017).

Anna McCarthy is Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU and a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham. She is the editor of Social Text Online.

Anthony P. McIntyre is an Associate Lecturer in Film Studies at University College Dublin. He is co-editor of The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness is currently finishing a monograph, Millennial Tensions: Generational Affect and Contemporary Screen Cultures.

Jaroslav Švelch is Assistant Professor at Charles University, Prague, faculty member at NYU Prague and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway (starting July 2017). His research focuses on history, theory and ethnography of video games and online media. He has written on amateur computer game development, Grammar Nazis, video game monsters, or slapstick in virtual environments. He has published in journals like Convergence, International Journal of Communication and Game Studies and in edited collections published by Bloomsbury, Routledge and Palgrave.