The Social Media Reader

About the Contributors

| 275 About the Contributors Chris Anderson is editor in chief of Wired. Since joining Wired in 2001, he has led the magazine to nine National Magazine Awards. Time magazine named Anderson to its 2007 “Time 100” list. He is author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More and Free: The Future of a Radical Price. C. W. Anderson is Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and the author of numerous works on the transformations of journalism in the digital age. Fred Benenson works in research and development at Kickstarter and previously was Outreach Manager for Creative Commons. He is the creator of Emoji Dick and the founder of Free Culture @ NYU. He has taught copyright and cyberlaw at NYU. Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and faculty codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He is the author of the award-winning book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. He was awarded the EFF Pioneer Award in 2007 and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006. His work can be freely accessed at benkler.org. danah boyd is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Research Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She recently coauthored Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. She blogs at http://www.zephoria. org/thoughts/ and tweets at @zephoria. E. Gabriella Coleman is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, she works on the politics of digital media with a focus on computer hackers. 276 | About the Contributors The Collaborative Futures project has developed over two intensive book sprints. In January 2010 in Berlin, Adam Hyde (founder, FLOSSmanuals ), Mike Linksvayer (vice president, Creative Commons), Michael Mandiberg (Associate Professor, College of Staten Island/CUNY), Marta Peirano (writer), Alan Toner (filmmaker), and Mushon Zer-Aviv (resident, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology) wrote the first edition in five days under the aegis of transmediale festival’s Parcours series. In June 2010, the book was rewritten at Eyebeam’s Re:Group exhibition in New York City with the original six and three new contributors: kanarinka (artist and founder, Institute for Infinitely Small Things), Sissu Tarka (artist, researcher), and Astra Taylor (filmmaker). The full book is freely available to read and to write at www. collaborative-futures.org. Patrick Davison is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media, Culture , and Communication at NYU. He is one-third of the Internet-themed performance Memefactory and has written and performed for the webseries Know Your Meme. Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, coeditor of three essay collections, and coeditor of Social Text online. Henry Jenkins is the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism , and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author or editor of twelve books, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, and Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. Jenkins is the principal investigator for Project New Media Literacies. Lawrence Lessig is Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig is the author of five books on law, technology, and copyright: Remix, Code v2, Free Culture, The Future of Ideas, and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He has served as lead counsel in a number of important cases, including Eldred v. Ashcroft. About the Contributors | 277 Fred von Lohmann is Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, although his contribution here was authored while he was Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Michael Mandiberg is an artist and Associate Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and Doctoral Faculty at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. He is the coauthor of Digital Foundations: An Intro to Media Design and Collaborative Futures. His work can been accessed via Mandiberg.com. Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. In addition to Foo Camps, O’Reilly Media...