A.R.E. Taylor is an anthropologist and senior lecturer in communications at the University of Exeter. His research concentrates on the material infrastructure and labour that underpins digital services, with a particular focus on the failure and breakdown of internet infrastructure. He is an editor for the Journal of Extreme Anthropology and a founder of the Cambridge Infrastructure Resilience Group, a network of researchers exploring critical infrastructure protection in relation to global catastrophic risks.Linda Kopitz connects her professional experience as a creative director with her interdisciplinary academic work to explore the intersection between technology and imagination in everyday meaning-making. She is currently working as a lecturer in cross-media culture in the Netherlands and Germany, where her main research interests are architectural media and the entanglements between real and virtual environments. Bringing together her academic and editorial work, she is an assistant editor for the European Journal of Cultural Studies.Yiğit Soncul is senior lecturer in communications and media at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. His research spans media theory; visual and material culture; media and the environment. He is co-editor of a special issue of the journal parallax , on “Networked Liminality” (2020), and a special issue of Media Theory on “Pharmacologies of Media” (2022). He is also a co-editor of De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Cultures (2026).Alexandra Kviat is lecturer in marketing and consumption at the University of Bristol Business School. She works across the fields of consumer and service research, cultural and media studies, urban sociology and human geography. Her interdisciplinary research projects have explored the relationship between digital technology, urban space and everyday consumption in the context of the hospitality, retail and leisure industries. Alexandra's work has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the University of Warwick Institute of Advanced Study and Chancellor's International Scholarship, and the Fulbright Program.
