Karin Bruns (Univ. Prof. Dr. phil.), 1957-2016, lehrte Medientheorie an der Kunstuniversität Linz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte waren Mediale Körperinszenierungen, Gendertheorie, Neue Medien. Ramón Reichert (Dr. phil.) works as a European project researcher at the University of Lancaster within the Erasmus+ program. He is the program director of the M.Sc. Data Studies at Danube University Krems, Austria. He is a lecturer at the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and a lecturer in Contextual Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.