Geert Lovink
Dutch media theorist and critic of digital culture (born 1959)
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Geert Lovink (born 1959) is a Dutch media theorist and critic of digital culture.[1] He is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures (INC), an Amsterdam-based research organization focused on internet studies and digital media.[2][3]
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| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland |
| Occupation | Media theorist |
| Employer | Hogeschool van Amsterdam |
| Website | networkcultures networkcultures laudanum |
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.[4]
From 2007 to 2017, he taught Media Theory at the European Graduate School, where he supervised PhD students.[5] 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.[6]
Activity
Since the early 1980s, Lovink has been involved in projects linking media, art, and technology.
2000s
Lovnik organised the Tulipomania Dotcom conference on internet culture in 2000;[7] co-organized Dark Markets, a conference in Vienna on media, democracy, and crisis in 2002;[8] co-organised Uncertain States of Reportage in Delhi in 2003;[9] and co-organised with Trebor Scholz Free Cooperation, a conference on online collaboration at SUNY Buffalo in 2004.[10]
2010s
In May 2010, Lovnik took part in Quit Facebook Day, deleting his account as part of a protest against the platform’s practices.[11]
2020s
In 2020, the Institute of Network Cultures published two archival collections of Lovnik's work: the Adilkno/Bilwet archive[12] and the text archive of his website geertlovink.org.[13]
Theoretical work
Lovink’s research includes contributions to theories of tactical media, described as the use of media technologies to combine artistic practice and critical theory.[14] He has referred to tactical media as “a deliberately slippery term, a tool for creating 'temporary consensus zones' based on unexpected alliances.”[15]
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)
