Juliette De Maeyer holds a Ph.D. (2013) from the Université libre de Bruxelles and has been an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal since 2014. Her research focuses on the materiality, technologies, and epistemology of journalism, often with a historical approach.

Her work in journalism studies has been published in Communication Theory, New Media and Society, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, and Hermès. In collaboration with Dominique Trudel, her recent work in media history has mainly focused on Franklin Ford, an enigmatic American journalist and media theorist from the late nineteenth century; she notably co-edited a critical edition of his texts, published by mediastudies.press.

With the two other editors of this Living Book, she co-founded the reading and activity group Paperology. She also co-founded Atelier -30-, a research lab on journalism. She is a member of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN), the Groupe de recherche sur la communication politique (GRCP), and the Laboratoire des Identités et Pratiques Journalistiques (LaPIJ).

Aleksandra Kaminska is Associate Professor in media studies and research-creation in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal. Her research in media aesthetics, material and visual cultures, and history of technology is published in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Convergence, Canadian Journal of Communication, and Intermédialités. Current projects include a historical study of security printing and document aesthetics that investigates the material protocols of identification and authentication. She has co-edited a number of collections, including the issues “Sleeping” (Intermédialités, 2024); “Materials and Media of Infrastructure” (Canadian Journal of Communication, 2021), and “Biometrics: Mediating Bodies” (PUBLIC Journal, 2020). She is a member of the Centre de recherche sur l’intermédialité (CRIalt) and of the Hexagram, network of research-creation in arts, cultures and technologies. She is a founding co-director of the Artefact Lab and of the international working group PaperologyRAG, and is the current Editor of the journal Intermédialités.

Ghislain Thibault is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal and co-director of the Artefact Lab, a research space dedicated to the materialities of communication. His work in media history and media archaeology has been published in various journals, including Configurations, Theory, Culture & Society, Canadian Journal of Communication, and Early Visual Popular Culture. His most recent research project focuses on the history of aerial advertising in North America. He is a member of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) and the Centre de recherche sur l’intermédialité (CRIalt).