ATHINA KARATZOGIANNI is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Political Communication, University of Hull, UK. She is the author of The Politics of Cyberconfict (2006), Power, Conflict and Resistance with Andrew Robinson (2010), and editor of Cyber Conflict and Global Politics (2009) and Violence and War in Culture and the Media (2012). Athina has written extensively on various incidents of cyberconflict, media movements and radical politics. She is currently working toward her research monograph The Real, the Virtual and the Imaginary State.
ADI KUNTSMAN Simon is Research Fellow, University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include affect and emotions; migration, diaspora and nationalism; queer politics; war, violence and coloniality; new media and humanitarianism; and digital cultures. She is the author of Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond (2009) and the co-editor of Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality (with Esperanza Miyake, 2008).
