Geert Lovink

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Geert Lovink, November 2010

Geert Lovink (* 1959 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch - Australian media scientist and network activist.

Life

Lovink studied political science at the University of Amsterdam before at the University of Melbourne with a thesis on "Dynamics of critical Internet culture" ( Dynamics of critical Internet culture was awarded a doctorate). In 2003 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. In 2004 he was appointed research professor at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), where he teaches interactive media . He is also a lecturer in new media at the University of Amsterdam.

Lovink is founding director of the media-theoretical Institute of network cultures (INC) based at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, which is dedicated to culture in virtual networks as a social phenomenon and examines it "from within", i.e. as a participating observer. The institute, founded in 2004, deals with the Internet and all other new media.

In addition, Lovink initiated a number of other projects on net culture , which he has accompanied to this day, including the media art magazine Mediamatic and the campaign for independent media in Southeastern Europe Press Now , which was created in the wake of the breakup of Yugoslavia. FibreCulture is an Australian internet culture forum that Lovink co-founded in 2001.

Since 1995 he has been running the nettime-l mailing list ( initiated together with Pit Schultz ) , which serves as a medium for media-theoretical discourse. Together with Pit Schultz, he is considered to be the founder of network criticism .

On May 31, 2010 Geert Lovink took part in the "Quit Facebook Day" campaign and deleted his Facebook account.

Fonts

  • Geert Lovink: Dark Fiber , Cambridge Mass .: MIT Press, 2002 (German: Dark Fiber - on the trail of a critical internet culture , Bonn: Federal Center for Political Education, Series of publications, Volume 425, 2003; also: Opladen: Leske and Budrich 2004 ISBN 3-81004145-9 ).
  • Geert Lovink: Uncanny Networks , Cambridge Mass .: MIT Press 2002.
  • Geert Lovink: My First Recession , Rotterdam: NAi / V2_Publishing 2003.
  • Geert Lovink: The Principle of Notworking , Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2005.
  • Geert Lovink: New Media, Art and Science: Explorations Beyond the Official Discourse , in: Scott McQuire and Nikos Papastergiadis (eds.), Empires, Ruins + Networks: The Transcultural Agenda in Art , Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press 2005.
  • Geert Lovink: Tactical Media, the Second Decade , Brazilian Submidialogia, 2005.
  • Geert Lovink: Zero Comments: Elements of a Critical Internet Culture, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2008. ISBN 978-3-89942-804-9
  • Geert Lovink: The halfway social. A criticism of the networking culture . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012. ISBN 978-3-8376-1957-7 .
  • Geert Lovink: Under the spell of the platforms. The next round of network criticism. Transcript publishing house. Bielefeld 2017. ISBN 978-3-8376-3368-9 .
  • Geert Lovink: Digital Nihilism. Theses on the dark side of the platforms . Transcript publishing house. Bielefeld 2019. ISBN 978-3-8376-4975-8

Web links

Commons : Geert Lovink  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation Dynamics of critical Internet culture (1994-2001) , University of Melbourne
  2. ↑ Geert Lovink: Short Biography ( shorter biography ) ( Memento of 5 July 2008 at the Internet Archive ), Geert Lovink's biography of the Institute of network cultures ( Memento of 13 May 2010 at the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Institute of network cultures: website .
  4. ^ Institute of network cultures: About the institute .
  5. ^ Homepage of Mediamatic .
  6. ↑ Press Now homepage
  7. ↑ homepage Fibreculture .
  8. ↑ Schultz, Pit; Geert Lovink: "nettime" . In: Medienkunstnetz.de. 1995. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
  9. ↑ nettime mailing list: info .
  10. ↑ Join the Facebook Exodus on May 31! , Blog post, May 27, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Lovink, Geert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch media scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam