Dal Yong Jin is Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Jin's major research and teaching interests are digital platforms and digital games, globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political economy of media and culture.

Kyong Yoon is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada, where he is also the Principal's Research Chair in Trans-Pacific Digital Platform Studies. His research focuses on digital media audiences, migration, and transnational pop culture.