Simone Natale is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK, and Assistant Editor of the journal Media, Culture & Society. His publications include his monograph Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016) and Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural (Oxford University Press, 2019, co-edited with Diana Walsh Pasulka.