John S. Seberger is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Informatics in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2019, he received his PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. Additionally, John holds a BA in Psychology from Kenyon College, an MSc in Research Methods in the Psychology of Music from Keele University, and an MLIS from University of Pittsburgh. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Graduate Research Fellowship from the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, research funding from the Internet of Things Group at Intel, and GAANN fellowships from the United States Department of Education. Focusing largely on the philosophical impacts of the Internet of Things (IoT), John specializes in humanistic and interdisciplinary approaches to human-computer interaction (HCI), the relationship between emerging technologies and theories of the archive, and infrastructure studies.

Richard Aubrey Slaughter is currently a doctoral candidate in the Informatics department at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His MA in Social Science was conducted at the University of Chicago, and his BA in Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is a recipient of the 2016 DTEI Pedagogical Fellowship, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation for the studies of sameness in scientific sampling. Publication of his latest work is forthcoming in the 2021 Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication. Principally concerned with the intersection between the seen and the unseen in human/infrastructural relations, he specializes in examining non-standard uses of informational technology, such as automated blackmail, ad hoc hacktivism, and magical infrastructures.