Trevor Pinch is a Professor in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University, and author or co-author of several books including Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (2002, with Frank Trocco), The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology (1993, second edition 1998, with Harry Collins), and The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (1994).

Karin Bijsterveld is Professor of Science, Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (2008), and co-editor of Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (2009, with José van Dijck).