Min Htin Kyaw Lat graduated with a degree in Economics and Management from Singapore Institute of Management in 2012 after which he returned to Yangon to pursue a career in the tech sector. In 2019 he moved to Hamburg to do a maters’ degree in Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. As a doctoral researcher at the University of Passau his research interests include issues surrounding digitalization and data privacy in the Global South, digital colonialism, platform capitalism, and informal digital economies in Myanmar and the Southeast Asian region.

Fathima Nizaruddin is an academic and documentary filmmaker from India with a keen interest in practice based artistic research. She finished her PhD in 2017 from the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, London. She was a post-doctoral fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. During her fellowship period with IRGAC, she was an affiliated fellow with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi and a visiting research fellow with the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She was an Assistant Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi from 2007-2020. Her articles have appeared in journals such as HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, International Journal of Communication (IJoC) and Asiascape: Digital Asia.

Gustavo Robles  is a Gerda Henkel Postdoc Fellow at the University of Passau. He got his PhD in Philosophy at the National University of La Plata (Argentina), where he was an Associate Professor. He is also a Research Fellow within the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counterstrategies (IRGAC-Rosa Luxemburg Foundation), and carried out research stays at different German universities, including the University of Frankfurt, the University of Jena, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. His areas of interest include Critical Theory, contemporary political thought, social philosophy, and the political economy of digital capitalism.

Ülker Sözen received her PhD degree in Sociology in 2017 from Mimar Sinan Fine ArtsUniversity in Turkey. She was a postdoctoral fellow from 2019 to 2022 in the InternationalResearch Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC), wherein she conductedresearch on civil society activism and authoritarianism in Turkey. She is currently a postdoctoralresearcher in the DFG funded research project “Piety and Secularity Contested: Family andYouth Politics in post-Kemalist 'New Turkey'” at the Institute of Religious Studies at LeipzigUniversity, studying expressions of religiosity, love, and romance by the youth on social media.