Pablo Velasco is Associate Professor of Digital Methods and Critical Data Studies, at the department of Digital Design & Information Studies, and Co-PI for the SHAPE research center (Project: Digital Activism), University of Aarhus. His research critically explores digital culture and practices through the prism of technical infrastructures and digital devices. He is currently interested in the political and ontological implications of the progressively pervasive use of automated computational techniques. He is an advocate of Free/Libre and Open-Source software and culture. More information about his work can be found at pablov.me

Serafina Aquilino is an Italian researcher with a lifelong passion for literature and foreign languages. After completing her secondary education, she pursued Oriental Studies at Sapienza University of Rome, where she obtained her BA and MA in Chinese Studies. During her academic journey, she completed three study periods in China, including a term at Beijing Foreign Studies University and a one-year program at Wuhan University through the LiSUM Project scholarship. Her interest in Chinese Internet culture and digital media blossomed while conducting research for her master's thesis in Wuhan. Subsequently, she conducted a one-year period of fieldwork research in Hangzhou as a part of her PhD.

In 2017, she obtained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), focusing on the interplay between official and online literary spheres in China. In 2019, she worked as a lecturer in Chinese Literature at the University of Catania. Her research interests include digital humanities, Chinese Internet literature and popular fiction, portrayals of Chinese urban realities through literature, and recent developments in censorship, cultural policies, and publication infrastructures in contemporary China.

After a brief hiatus from academia, during which she engaged in diverse professional endeavours, she is now ready to fully commit herself to research. She lives and works in London, UK.

Mujie Li is an experimental writer and doctoral researcher in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom). She is the author of the short-story collection Climate Zones (forthcoming in 2023, published by Pulsasir), and novella Mirage Time (2017, published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe). Email: Mujie.Li@sussex.ac.uk.

Joy Wallace, from Charles Sturt University, Australia, teaches and researches in the fields of Australian women’s literature and feminist approaches to literary studies. She has published several articles on Australian women writers of the 1930s-1970s, most recently, “Modern Man and the War at Home: Eleanor Dark’s The Little Company (1945) in War, Gender and Reflective Australia, edited by Joy Wallace and Christine Jennett, Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA) Review, 2021, vol.17, no.2 and vol. 18, no.1. With John O’Carroll, she has published on the distinguished Australian poet, Judith Wright, most recently, “Beyond Subjectivity: The Appearances of Extinction in Judith Wright’s Fourth Quarter (1976), Fusion Journal, 2016, Issue 10. She has published five articles on the renowned poet, performer, and multimedia writer, Hazel Smith, most recently, “Discomfort Enacted in Writing: Hazel Smith’s Word Migrants.” Sydney Review of Books, Aug. 2016.