Dafydd Sills-Jones is Associate Professor at Te Kura Whakapaho, Te Wananga Aronui o Tamamki Makau Rau (School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology). Dafydd publishes in both traditional scholarly mode (on history in the media, minority language media, documentary culture) and screen practice as research mode, making installations and films that have been screened in several countries and at major international festivals. Previously, Dafydd worked in the media industry in the UK in a number of sectors and roles, including producing, directing and researching documentary, drama-documentary, and interactive non-fiction.
Pietari Kääpä is a Reader in Media and Communications at the University of Warwick. He works in the field of environmental media studies with a specific focus on media management and industry studies. His monograph Environmental Management of the Media: Industry, Policy, Practice (2018) explores the ecological footprint of media production and the policies and strategies developed in the media sector to curtail these impacts. In addition, he is the author of several books on ecocinema, including Transnational Ecocinemas: Film Culture in the Age of Environmental Depravation (with Tommy Gustafsson, 2013).
