- Doc Searls
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal , which has been covering the world's fastest-growing operating system since Version 1.0, in 1994. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , perhaps the only book (and probably the only bestseller) that began as a rant on a Web site. He also writes Doc Searls Weblog , which usually ranks well up in Technorati's Top 100 blogs (out of about 2.7 million). - Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He teaches New Media as an adjunct professor at New York University's (NYU) graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. - Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist and one of the most influential bloggers in the world, according to Technorati. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the largest independent global PR firm. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: Media Magazine's Media 100, the . . . - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Craig Newmark
Craig Alexander Newmark (born 6 December 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based website Craigslist. Newmark attended Morristown High School. Upon graduation he attended college at Case Western Reserve University. Newmark is a vocal advocate of keeping the Internet free. He has donated $10,000 to a non-profit group, NewAssignment.Net, … - Anil Dash
Anil Dash (pronounced, born in September 1975) is an early and influential blogger who began his weblog in 1999. Previously an independent technology consultant, and a new media developer for the "Village Voice", Dash was the first employee of, and now works as a Vice President for, Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, Vox, and owners of LiveJournal. In 2003, Dash was one of four bloggers featured on the PBS series "Media Matters". - Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, USA where he teaches new media art and theory. His book "The Language of New Media" has received over 50 reviews in the USA and was translated into Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Chinese. - Kevin Rose
Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; better known as Kevin Rose) is best known for founding the social-bookmarking site Digg and as former co-host of the TechTV show "The Screen Savers" (later "Attack of the Show!" on G4) until his departure from the network in May 2005. He attended UNLV for computer science, but dropped out to pursue the 90's tech boom. - C.C. Chapman
Charles "C.C." Chapman is a prominent figure in the community of podcasting and podsafe music. From a home studio in the Boston area, Chapman hosts the independent music-focused podcasts "Accident Hash" and "U-Turn Cafe", and contributes to PodShow Music Rewind, a weekly digest of music shows on the PodShow network. He also promotes PodShow's Podsafe Music Network, a major archive of music licensed for free use in podcasts. - Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort is a poet, computer scientist, scholar of new media and game studies, and author of interactive fiction who is moving away from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His collaborative literary projects include "The Ed Report", "2002", "Implementation", and "Mystery House Taken Over". His interactive fiction includes "Winchester's Nightmare" (1999) and "Ad Verbum" (2000). - Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes (born April 6, 1959) is a designer and theorist in the fields of online learning and new media. Born in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) Downes lived and worked across Canada before joining the National Research Council of Canada as a senior researcher in November 2001. Currently based in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the Institute for Information Technology's e-Learning Research Group, … - Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis (born June 13, 1971) is an American web designer, author and artist in new media. He was an early pioneer in the use of Macromedia Flash. He is the author of "Flash to the Core" (2002) and was featured in the seminal book "New Masters of Flash" (2000). - Xeni Jardin
Xeni Jardin (born August 5 1972) is a journalist and weblogger in the United States. She is known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing; as a contributor to "Wired" and "Wired News", and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show "Day to Day". She has also worked as a guest technology news commentator for television networks such as CNN, Fox News and ABC. - Om Malik
Om Malik is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc., an online news and weblog that delivers technology news, analysis, and opinions to a monthly global audience of one million consumers and professionals interested in the world of hi-tech. His daily rants on tech/telecom and broadband can be found at http://gigaom.com . Panel: Panel Discussion: Scaling and High Availability Challenges - Ross Levinsohn
Ross Levinsohn is the former President of Fox Interactive Media, the Internet and New Media arm of News Corporation, where he reported directly to Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. President Peter Chernin. Named by Murdoch in 2005 to head Fox Interactive, he moved quickly to build the division, most notably paying in excess of $500 million for myspace.com. - Farhad Manjoo
Farhad Manjoo (born 1978) is a staff writer for Salon.com. Manjoo graduated from Cornell University in 2000. While there, he wrote for and then served as Editor in Chief of the "Cornell Daily Sun" student newspaper. Before taking a staff position at Salon.com, he wrote for "Wired News". Manjoo frequently writes on new media, politics, and controversies in journalism. - Hillman Curtis
D. Hillman Curtis is an American new media designer, author, and filmmaker. Curtis is the Principal and Chief Creative Officer of hillmancurtis.com, inc., a digital design firm in New York City. Previously, he was design director for Macromedia. He has published four books on new media design. Curtis was listed by the Internet Professional Publisher Association in its DesignerONE awards for 2001-2002 as one of the top ten web designers. - McKenzie Wark
McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. He works mainly on media theory, critical theory and new media. His best known works are "A Hacker Manifesto" and "Gamer Theory". - Friedrich Kittler
Friedrich A. Kittler (born 1943 in Rochlitz, Saxony) is a literary scientist and a media theorist. His works relate to media, technology, and the military. - G. H. Hovagimyan
G. H. Hovagimyan is an experimental cross media, new media and performance artist who lives and works in New York City. He was born 1950 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. In 1972, He received a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received an M.A. from New York University in 2005. He is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in the MFA Computer Arts Department. - Anastasia Goodstein
Anastasia Goodstein is the publisher of Ypulse, a Forbes magazine Best of the Web blog. She is also the author of Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online (St.Martin’s Press), which will be available March 20, 2007. Anastasia graduated from Antioch College, with a B.A. in Journalism/Women's Studies in 1995. After graduating, she began her youth-media career at Teen Voices magazine, which was written by and for teen girls. - Lisbeth Klastrup
Lisbeth Klastrup (b. 1970) is a Danish scholar of new media. Although her early research was on hypertext fiction, she is now best known for her research on virtual worlds, in particular MMOGs such as Everquest and World of Warcraft. Her focus in this research has been on "worldliness", or what makes an online space as in a MMOG feel like a world, although she is also known for her presentation of amusing anecdotes that she then connects to larger research questions. - Natalie Bookchin
Natalie Bookchin (born 1962) is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. She is well-known for her in new media, and serving as the co-Director of the Photography and Media Program in the Art School at California Institute of the Arts. She has also previously taught at the University of California, San Diego. Her recent projects include the online work "agoraXchange", created with Jackie Stevens, commissioned by the Tate Online. - Joe Rospars
A BSD founding partner, Joe spent 2007 and 2008 as the New Media Director for Obama for America, the successful Presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama, where he oversaw all online aspects of the unprecedented fundraising, communications and grassroots mobilization effort. At Obama for America, Joe led a wide-ranging program that integrated design and branding, web and video content, mass email, text messaging, and online advertising, organizing and fundraising. - Christian Bauer
Christian Bauer is an art project manager and a former pioneer and entrepreneur in the field of 3D computer graphics and New Media. Bauer works mostly for multimedia artist André Heller. - Mary Scott
Mary Scott (Canadian, born in 1948) is an artist based in Calgary, who has worked with painting, fibre, new media and computer programming in her art practice. She has participated in a variety of group exhibitions including She Writes in White Ink, (1985) at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; Songs of Experience, (1986), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Active Surplus, (1987), Power Plant, Toronto; and The Body and Society, (1988) at the Embassy Cultural House, London, … - Casey McKinnon
Casey McKinnon is a new media producer and actress who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She has worked and appeared on three internet TV shows:. - George Legrady
George Legrady (born 1950) is an artist in the field of interactive media arts. - Nancy Baym
Nancy Baym, Ph.D. is an American academic, currently an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. She is a co-founder and former president of the Association of Internet Researchers, and serves on the board of several academic journals covering new media and communication. She is the author of "Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community" (2000), a book which performs an ethnographic analysis on soap opera fans, … - Andy Miah
Andy Miah is a Reader in New Media & Bioethics at the University of Paisley, Scotland and Fellow in the Envisioning the Future program for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He was formerly a Tutor in the Ethics of Science & Medicine in the Graduate School of Biomedical & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland. His research discusses human enhancement technologies and is informed by an interest in applied philosophy, technology, and culture. - Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA franchise; and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network. - Aliza Sherman
Aliza Sherman (Uh-LEE-zuh; also Aliza Pilar Sherman and Aliza Sherman Risdahl) born December 19, 1964, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a new media entrepreneur, author, women's issues activist, and international speaker. Sherman has received recognition for her role as an entrepreneur focused on women's issues, particularly women's role in the new media industry and their participation on the Internet. - Cory Doctorow
A former EFF staff member and recipient of EFF's 2007 Pioneer Award , Cory Doctorow is now an EFF fellow. In addition to being an award-winning author of both science fiction and nonfiction works, he is co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing . His novels include Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ; Little Brother ; and Eastern Standard Tribe . He enjoys googling for interesting facts about long walks on the beach. - Scott Snibbe
Scott Snibbe is an interactive media artist. He often works with projector-based interactivity, where a computer-controlled projection onto the floor or ceiling changes in response to people moving across its surface. His first full-body interactive work "Boundary Functions" (1998), premiered at Ars Electronica 1998. In this floor-projected interactive artwork, people walk across a four-meter by four-meter floor. - Madanmohan Rao
Dr Madanmohan Rao is a Bangalore-based authority on Internet issues and cyberspace, and a widely respected speaker globally on these issues. Currently, a consultant-author, member of NonComm, ICANN. He has been the research director at the Asia Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC). He is also the editor of the book series The Asia Pacific Internet Handbook and The Knowledge Management Chronicles. - Jeff Lebow
Jeff Lebow (born August 23, 1966) is a webcasting pioneer and community builder and internet philanthropist in the fields of online learning and new media. Jeff is the founder of Worldbridges and the co-founder of EdTechTalk. He has long been an advocate of the value of live interactive webcasting as a vehicle of social change and cross-cultural understanding. - Vivian Sobchack
Vivian Sobchack is an American cinema and media theorist and cultural critic. Sobchack's work on Science Fiction films and phenomenology of film is perhaps her most recognized. She is a prolific writer however, and has authored numerous books and articles across a diverse range of subjects; from historiography to film noir to work on documentary film, new media, and film feminism. - Feng Mengbo
Feng Mengbo (born 1966) is a contemporary Chinese who works mainly in new media. Born in 1966 in [ ] province, in 1992, he graduated from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou. He now lives and works in Beijing. - Idan Gafni
Idan Gafni is an award winning mobile expert and entrepreneur. Using a creativity technique he created named “Object Pairing”, Idan harnesses innovation to create mobile value added services. Services are based on mobile interaction, contextual awareness, user-generated content, and dynamic content, using the advantages of technologies such as SMS, MMS, IVVR, and WEB technologies. In the past, Idan served as the innovation manager of Orange Israel, part of the Hutchison 3 telecom group. - Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux, born September 18 1943, is a US cultural critic. He is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. He is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
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