Participants

Research Professor of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School and Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam. He is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, the aims of which are to explore, document and nourish the potential of the new media for bringing about social, economic and cultural change. He has written several books, the most recent amongst which are Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (Routledge, 2007) and Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media (Polity, 2011). His book Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2002) has been published in Spanish as Fibra oscura: rastreando la cultura crítica de Internet (Tecnos, 2004).