Bridget Kies Editor & Author

Bridget Kies is an Associate Professor of Film Studies and Production and Faculty Fellow for AI at Oakland University, where she conducts workshops on teaching about and with AI. Her work on AI and media studies, co-authored with Mel Stanfill, has been published in Teaching Media. She is the author of Murder, She Wrote (2025) and co-editor of Fandom, the Next Generation (2022).

Mel Stanfill is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Texts and Technology Program and the Department of English at the University of Central Florida. Key focuses of Stanfill’s work include the uses and abuses of platforms and cultural studies of the law. They have been published in venues like New Media and Society, Cultural Studies, and Television & New Media, and are the author of four books, including Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy (2023).