person

1959 –

Netherlands

http://www.networkcultures.org/geert

Geert Lovink, founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, is a Dutch-Australian media theorist and critic. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and in 2003 was at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. In 2004 Lovink was appointed as Research Professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam and Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. From 2004-2013 he was an Associate Professor of New Media at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) He is the founder of internet projects such as nettime and fibreculture. In Dark Fiber (2002) he mapped the cultural politics of the exuberant dotcom years from 1993 to 2001. My First Recession (2003) covered the dotcom crash and further investigated the social dynamics of online communities. The next so-called Web 2.0 wave of blogs and social networking sites was dealt with in The Principle of Notworking (2005). In 2005-06 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg – the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study where he finished his third volume on critical internet culture, Zero Comments (2007) in which a theory of blogging was developed. (2016)