Sara Polak Editor & Author

Sara Polak (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) is an assistant professor in American Studies, focusing on US presidents and their media. She wrote "This is Roosevelt’s World" — FDR as a Cultural Icon in American Memory and co-edited Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse. Daniel Trottier (Erasmus University Rotterdam) is an associate professor of Global Digital Media. His current research considers the use of digital media for the purposes of scrutiny, denunciation and shaming. His books include Social Media as Surveillance, Identity Problems in the Facebook Era and Introducing Vigilant Audiences.