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.
ReadAaron 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.
ReadIn early June 2004 a digital culture event was be held in Vienna to examine the theories and practices for making new cultures of access viable.
Rita Raley is Associate Professor of English, with courtesy appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of digital media and humanist inquiry, with a particular emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, and language (codework, machine translation, electronic literature, and electronic English).
Eveline Lubbers (NL), monitoring police and secret services since the
eighties, supporting social activist groups against oppressive
surveillance tactics of authorities. Recently she specialized in
corporate intelligence and PR-strategies of multinationals against their
critics- including net- activists.
Dark Markets is a two day strategic conference that looked into the state of the art of media politics, information technologies, and theories of democracy. A variety of international speakers inquired into strategies of oppositional movements and discussed the role of new media.
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