Neta Alexander is assistant professor of film and media at Yale University. She is coauthor of Failure and author of Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies.

Shane Denson is professor of film and media studies and, by courtesy, of German studies and communication at Stanford University, where he also serves as director of the PhD Program in Modern Thought & Literature.

David Parisi is the Dibner Family Professor in the History and Philosophy of Technology and Science at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering. He is author of Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing.

Rachel Plotnick is associate professor of cinema and media studies in The Media School at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing and License to Spill: Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives.