Michele White is a Professor of Internet and New Media Studies in the Department of Communication at Tulane University. She is author of The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship (2006), Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay (2012), Producing Women: The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity (2015), and Producing Masculinity: The Internet, Gender, and Sexuality (2019). She co-edited the Feminist Media Histories issue on Genealogies of Feminist Media Studies and has written extensively about online cultures, including persistent digital authorizations of misogyny and hate. She is currently completing a monograph, Touch Screen Theory: Digital Devices and Feelings.

Diane Negra is a Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, she is the author, editor, or co-editor of twelve books including Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007); What a Girl Wants? Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism (2008), Gendering the Recession: Media and Culture in an Age of Austerity (2014), and Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (2021). She serves as Chair of the Irish Fulbright Commission.