2016-01-25

Geert Lovink. The Yes Men. 2015


source: European Graduate School    2016年1月22日
http://www.egs.edu/ Geert Lovink, (b. 1959) is a media theorist and critic. He is the author of a number of books, including Uncanny Networks (2002), The Principle of Networking (2005), and Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (2002). Lovink is a research professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and a professor at The European Graduate School / EGS. He is also the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, which analyses and shapes the terrain of network cultures through events, publications, and online dialogue.

Lovink holds a PhD in English Literature from the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this, he received an MA in political science from the University of Amsterdam. In 2003, he received a post-doctoral fellowship to the University of Queensland, in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, as well as a digital cultures fellowship in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the same year, he assumed a position in the Faculty Advisory Committee in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. Lovink was also a member of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council during this time. In 2004, he was appointed a research professor at the Institute of Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. In the same year, he founded the Institute of Network Studies and became an honorary research advisor within the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Finally, during 2005 and 2006, he was a fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg.

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