There is no Software, there are just Services

Martina Leeker is Professor of Methods in Digital Cultures and Senior Researcher at the Digital Cultures Research Lab, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She is a scholar and lecturer for theater and media studies. Her research concerns artistic/practical research in digital cultures, discourse-analytical media theory, media-anthropology, art and technology, theater and media.

Seth Erickson is a PhD candidate at the Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation focuses on software development practices in contemporary digital scholarship.

Anders Fagerjord is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. His research interests include locative media, design theory, multimodality and multimedia theory; and the concept of “convergence.” Outside of academia, he has worked as a web designer and radio host.

Christopher M. Kelty is Professor of Information Studies and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Current research projects can be found at http://kelty.org/.

Andrew Lison is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Digital Humanities at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. He is co-editor, with Timothy Scott Brown, of The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). His work has also appeared in New Formations and Science Fiction Studies.

Liam Magee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. He is coauthor of Towards a Semantic Web: Connecting Knowledge in Academic Research (2010).

Christoph Neubert is a Postdoctoral Lecturer for Media History at the Department of Media Studies, University of Paderborn and senior member of the DFG Research Training Group “Automatisms.” His research interests include media theory and history, the epistemology of traffic and logistics, and the history of ecology.

Jussi Parikka is Professor of Technological Culture & Aesthetics at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. He is the author of several books on digital culture and media theory, including What is Media Archaeology? (2012) and most recently A Geology of Media (2015).

Ned Rossiter is Professor of Communication at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. His book Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares is forthcoming in 2015.