Louisa Stein is Associate Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College, USA. She is author of Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age (2015) and co-editor of A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures (2020), Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom (2012) and Teen Television: Programming and Fandom (2008). Her work explores audience engagement in transmedia culture, with emphasis on cultural and digital contexts, gender, and generation.

Samantha Close is an Assistant Professor of Media and Popular Culture at DePaul University, USA. She both writes about fan video and creates scholarly video work that mixes fan video with videographic criticism. Her writing has appeared in edited volumes and academic journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Transformative Works and Cultures, and the International Journal of Communication. Her research interests include digital media, theory-practice, fan studies, gender, race, and Japanese media. She focuses particularly on labor and transforming models of creative industries and capitalism.