Sara Simon is a PhD student at the Illinois Institute of Technology studying the history of technology. Prior to graduate school, she worked in newsroom technology and data journalism.

Carly A. Kocurek is professor of digital humanities and media studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author of two books: Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and Brenda Laurel: Pioneering Games for Girls (Bloomsbury, 2017), and coeditor of the forthcoming anthology, Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be (Punctum). Her articles have been published in journals such as Game Studies, American Journal of Play, Visual Studies, and Velvet Light Trap, and she coedited a special issue on feminist video game history for Feminist Media Histories.

Leilasadat Mirghaderi is a PhD candidate specializing in technology and humanities at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She also holds a master’s of architecture degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In her research, she is exploring how Eastern internet users employ social media features with their digital activities to create a public sphere for self-expression.