Abdrew Gavin Marshall

Andrew Gavin Marshall is a 26-year old researcher and writer based in Montreal, Canada.

• occupy,
• tactical research

 VakuumTV

VakuumTV was founded in February 1994 on the initiative of László Kistamás. Its members presented weekly broadcasts on Monday nights at the most popular cultural club in Budapest, Tilos az Á.

• tactical media,
• tactical television

 California Department of Corrections

The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has established an organizational structure which provides for efficient and effective management of all facets of advertising to include care, treatment, discipline, training, and employment.

• public space,
• culture jamming,
• billboard improvement

Inke Arns

Inke Arns, curator and artistic director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein (www.hmkv.de) in Dortmund, Germany, since 2005. She has worked internationally as an independent curator, writer and theorist specializing in media art, net cultures, and Eastern Europe since 1993. She lived in Paris (1982-86), finished school in West-Berlin in 1988, studied Russian literature, Eastern European studies, political science, and art history in Berlin and Amsterdam (1988-96) and in 2004 obtained her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin, with a thesis focusing on a paradigmatic shift in the way artists reflected the historical avant-garde and the notion of utopia in visual and media art projects of the 1980s and 1990s in (ex-)Yugoslavia and Russia.

• art,
• network cultures,
• net criticism

Jack Dean

Author and co-editor of the Occupied Times of London.

• activism,
• theory,
• occupy

Michael Richmond

Author and co-editor of the Occupied Times of London.

• activism,
• theory,
• occupy

Gene Ray

Gene Ray is a critic and theorist living in Berlin, is a member of the Radical Culture Research Collective (RCRC).

• art,
• tactical media

Natalia Mazotte

Natália Mazotte is a Brazilian journalist from Rio de Janeiro with a background in social and technological issues related to the creation and sharing of knowledge. She writes for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, of Texas University, and works for a Brazilian NGO named Ibase. She is a researcher and fellow in the Graduate Programme of Culture and Communication of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

• grassroot journalism,
• diy media

Zeynep Tufekci

Zeynep Tufekci is  a fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University (and a "visiting assistant professor" at the Woodrow Wilson school at Princeton University.) She is also an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel.  For the 2012-2013 academic year, she is residing in Princeton, NJ.

• diy media,
• infopolitics,
• media theory,
• info-activism,
• media criticism

Clemens Apprich

Theorist, writer, and Research Fellow at the Moving Image Lab as well as coordinator and curator at the Post-Media Lab at Leuphana University in Lüneburg.

• tactical media,
• media theory,
• media criticism

Tatiana Bazzichelli

Tatiana Bazzichelli (it/de) is a researcher, networker and curator, working in the field of hacktivism and net culture.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism

The League of Noble Peers

The League of Noble Peers is an organization credited with producing the Steal This Film documentary series.

• copyleft,
• public domain,
• copyright

Ned Rossiter

Ned Rossiter is is a media theorist who researches on the political dimensions of labour and life in informational economies. He is currently investigating global logistics industries and the intersections between labour regimes, IT infrastructures, electronic waste industries and questions of informational sovereignty.

• network cultures,
• infopolitics,
• post-governmental organisation,
• info-activism

Dave Oswald Mitchell

Dave Oswald Mitchell is a writer, editor and researcher camped out at the intersection of the economic and ecological crises.

• activism,
• info-activism

Andrew Boyd

Andrew Boyd  is an author, humorist and veteran of creative campaigns for social change.

• activism,
• info-activism

Paolo Gerbaudo

Paolo Gerbaudo is Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at  the Department of CMCI at King?s College London.

• network cultures,
• participatory media,
• street protest

Gergory Sholette

Gregory Sholette is an artist, activist and author based in New York. 

• art,
• activism,
• theory,
• economics

 Behindthemask

Behindthemask is a writer and activist who has been involved in Nottingham Indymedia and the UK Indymedia network for the past 8 years.

Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz is the founder of Demand Progress, which launched the campaign against the Internet censorship bills (SOPA/PIPA) and now has over a million members. He is also a Contributing Editor to The Baffler and on the Council of Advisors to The Rules.

• infopolitics,
• public domain,
• info-activism

Sami BenGharbia

Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate. He was a political refugee living in the Netherlands between 1998 and 2011. Sami is the author of the first Tunisian e-book (in French) Borj Erroumi XL.

• activism,
• infopolitics,
• net.activism,
• info-activism,
• blogosphere