Geert Lovink. Blogging and Critical Internet Culture. 2007 1/8

www.egs.edu Geert Lovink presenting a foundation of critical internet culture and talking about blogs, blogging, blogging philosophy, activism, social networks, network theory, audiences, growth and markets. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007. Geert Lovink Geert Lovink, born 1959 in Amsterdam, is a media theorist, net critic and activist, who studied political science on the University of Amsterdam (MA) and holds a PhD at University of Melbourne. In 2003 he was a postdoc fellow at University of Queensland in Brisbane. 2004 he was appointed research professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam for Interactive media and associate professor for New Media at the University of Amsterdam. His position was renamed as the Institute of Network Cultures. In 2005 his institute organized four international new media conferences: one on the history of webdesign, one on alternatives in ICT for Development, another on urban screens and the Art & Politics of Netporn. In 2005-2006 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg, the Centre for Advanced Study in Berlin where he finished the third volume of an ongoing research on Internet culture, to be published by Routledge New York. Lovink was a member of Adilkno, the Foundation for the Advancement of Illegal Knowledge, a free association of media-related intellectuals established in 1983 – the Agentur …