Mirko Tobias Schäfer is Assistant Professor for New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Utrecht and director of the Utrecht Data School. Schäfer studied theater, film and media studies and communication studies at Vienna University, Austria and digital culture at Utrecht University, Utrecht. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre…

Michael Hardt, Ph.D., born in Washington DC in 1960, is a political philosopher and literary theorist currently based at Duke University, North Carolina. Michael Hardt’s recent writings focus primarily on deciphering various aspects of globalization through the style of writing he defines as eclecticism – or bringing together in one place and connecting the ideas…