Vassiliki Lalioti studied History and Archaeology in the University of Crete and Social Anthropology in the University of Durham – UK. She is currently an assistant professor of anthropology of performance at the Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She teaches cultural and music anthropology, contemporary popular music and internet ethnography, ethnographic approaches to performing arts. He research interests and publications include the study of contemporary ancient Greek drama performances and their role in the construction of Greek ethnic identity, the application of performance theory in the study of performing arts (music, theatre), and the study of the role of technology in contemporary popular music.

Manolis Patiniotis is associate professor of History of Science at the department of History and Philosophy of Science, Athens University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the historiography of science, the history and historiography of Scientific Revolution and the sciences during the 18 th and 19 th centuries. His research interests include the study of Newtonianism’s impact on various 18 th -century intellectual environments, the appropriation of the 17 th and 18 th -century natural philosophy by the scholars of the European periphery, and the application of information technology in historical inquiry. He participated in the construction of the digital libraries Hellinomnimon and Katoptron and he is a founding member of the international research group STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery).

Mitsos Bilalis is an Assistant Professor of Theory and Technology of Historical Information at the University of Thessaly, Department of History, Archaeology, Social Anthropology (Volos, Greece). He studied History at the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens and University of Sofia “Sv. Kliment Ohridski”. He has published on theory of History, contemporary visual culture, social history of information and historical culture in the digital domain.

Dr. Despoina Valatsou has studied History and Archaeology with a specialization in History (first degree, 1998) at the University of Athens. She has also studied Digital Media (Master of Arts, 2000) at the University of Sussex (UK). She holds a PhD in Digital History (2014) from the University of Athens. Her PhD thesis is entitled “The emergence of new sites of memory on the Internet”. Her academic interests involve Digital Humanities, Digital History, Crowdsourcing and Public History, Memory Studies. She has worked at the private sector (POLIS Publishers). She has participated in research projects at the Historical Archives of the University of Athens concerning the digitization of archives and the representation of historical archival information in digital environments such as the Pergamos Digital Library. She is currently employed by the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH). She speaks English and French.