Stefania Milan is Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Professor (II) of Media Innovation at the University of Oslo. She is the Principal Investigator of the DATACTIVE project, investigating the politics of big data according to civil society and funded by a Starting Grant of the European Research Council.

Lonneke van der Velden is a postdoctoral researcher at the research project DATACTIVE: the politics of data according to civil society, and teaches at the the New Media and Digital Culture program at the UvA. She is also part of the editorial board of Krisis, journal for contemporary philosophy.