Jennifer E. Boyle is Professor at Coastal Carolina University, USA. She has published books, chapters and articles on new media, perceptual technics and affect, transversal theory and film, embodiment, technoculture and sexuality. She also works on and collaborates in many digital and new media projects.Helen J. Burgess is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University, USA. She is Editor of the online journal Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures and Coeditor of Electric Press, a born-digital monograph series with Punctum Books. She works in electronic literature, digital humanities and digital rhetorics.