Tom Mullaney is Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of The Chinese Typewriter: A History, Where Research Begins, and Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China.

Benjamin Peters is Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa and the author of How Not to Network a Nation (MIT Press).

Mar Hicks is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology and the author of Programmed Inequality (MIT Press).

Kavita Philip is President's Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at the University of British Columbia, and the author of Civilizing Natures.