William Clyde Partin is a researcher at Data & Society Research Institute and a doctoral candidate in communication at the University of North Carolina. He researches the influence of information communication technologies on cultural industries.

Iris Bull (they/them) is currently a PhD student in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. They acknowledge and honor the myaamiki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and saawanwa people, on whose ancestral homelands and resources Indiana University Bloomington is built. At IUB, they study how Euro-Western social media and gaming platforms amplify and multiply “toxicity.” Theorizing toxicity as grammars of suffering, they relate those experiences to the maintenance of contemporary colonial-imperial-racial capitalist social order in the United States. Follow their work at http://irisbull.com.