Geert Lovink

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Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink in 2010
Born	(1959-08-30) August 30, 1959 (age 67) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Education	University of Amsterdam, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland
Occupation	Media theorist
Employer	Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Website	networkcultures.org networkcultures.org/geert laudanum.net/geert/

Geert Lovink (born 30 August 1959) is a Dutch media theorist and critic of digital culture. He is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC), an Amsterdam-based research organization focused on internet studies and digital media.

Academic career

Lovink has held teaching and research positions at several institutions. Since 2004, he has been a researcher with the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, where he also leads the INC.^{[citation needed]} Until 2013, he was associate professor of new media at the University of Amsterdam.

From 2007 to 2017, he taught Media Theory at the European Graduate School, where he supervised PhD students. In December 2021, he was appointed Professor of Art and Network Cultures.

Lovink has a Masters Degree in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam, a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland.

Activity

Since the early 1980s, Lovink has been involved in projects linking media, art, and technology.

Theoretical work

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Lovink’s research includes contributions to theories of tactical media, described as the use of media technologies to combine artistic practice and critical theory. He has referred to tactical media as “a deliberately slippery term, a tool for creating 'temporary consensus zones' based on unexpected alliances.”

Selected works

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Lovink is the author or editor of numerous publications on media theory and internet culture, including:

• Dynamics of Critical Internet Culture (1994–2001) (PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 2002)
• Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (MIT Press, 2002)
• Uncanny Networks (MIT Press, 2002)
• My First Recession (NAi/V2_Publishing, 2003)
• The Principle of Notworking (Amsterdam University Press, 2005)
• Tactical Media, the Second Decade (Submidialogia, 2005)
• Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (Routledge, 2007)
• Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media (Polity, 2012)
• Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (co-editor, Institute of Network Cultures, 2013)
• Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation (Polity, 2016)
• MoneyLab Reader (co-editor, Institute of Network Cultures, 2015; second volume 2017)
• Organization after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, Minor Compositions, 2018)
• Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism (Pluto Press, 2019)
• Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet (Valiz, 2022)
• Extinction Internet (inaugural lecture, University of Amsterdam, 2022)

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