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A.R.E. Taylor is a digital 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 Editorial Assistant 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 has studied at the University of Leipzig and the University of Miami and holds a Research Masters in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Her main research interests are sustainable media and the intersection between technology and imaginations of the everyday. She is currently working as a Lecturer in Cross-Media Culture and continues to freelance as a Creative Director and writer in the arts and cultural sector. Bringing together her academic and editorial work, she is also the editorial assistant for NECSUS Journal of Media Studies and an assistant editor for the European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Yigit 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.
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