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BIO
Julian Dibbell has, in the course of over a decade of writing and
publishing, established himself as one of digital culture’s most thoughtful and
accessible observers. He has written essays and articles on hackers, computer
viruses, online communities, encryption technologies, music pirates, and the
heady cultural, political, and philosophical questions that tie these and other
digital-age phenomena together. Currently a contributing editor for Wired
magazine, he lives in South Bend, Indiana.
BOOKS
My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Henry Holt, 1999.
“Quite
simply… the best book yet written about the dynamics of online life”
-- Andrew
Leonard, Salon.
ANTHOLOGIZED
ESSAYS (A SHORT SELECTION)
“A Rape in Cyberspace: Or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian
Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a
Society.” First published in The Village Voice, December 21, 1993. Reprinted in
Reading Digital Culture (Blackwell, 2001), Flame Wars: The Discourse of
Cyberculture (Duke, 1994) and eight other collections, it has also been
translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Norwegian.
“Pirate Utopia.” First published in Feed online magazine, February
20, 2001. Reprinted in Best American Science Writing 2002 (Ecco, 2002).
“Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man.” First published in Feed, May
3, 2000. Reprinted in We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture (Perseus,
2002).
GIGS
Wired. Contributing Editor. August 2003 to
the present.
Under
contract to write feature articles for the award-winning technology magazine,
to which I have contributed occasionally since shortly after its launch.
Stanford Law School. Visiting Fellow, August 2002 to July
2003.
Researched and taught at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, founded and directed by legal scholar and activist Lawrence Lessig. Co-taught a course with Lessig on “Law and Virtual Worlds.” Investigated virtual economies as legal, political, and social phenomena. Collaborated on Lessig’s Creative Commons initiative to reform intellectual property law for the digital age.
Feed. Contributing
Editor. November
1995 to June 1997.
For the groundbreaking
online magazine, wrote semi-monthly essays on the cultural and political
meanings of technological obsession, including profiles of bloggers,
steganographers, overclockers, and other techno-fanatics.
Time. Contributor. November 1995 to June 1997.
For the august
newsweekly, wrote monthly pieces on technology, including features on
artificial intelligence, microchip manufacture, cryptography, and the role of
the Internet in Serbian politics.
The Village Voice. Assistant Editor. January 1992 to February 1996.
Wrote several cover stories and a monthly column (“Strange Loops”) analyzing and reporting on the new digital technologies.
Freelance. July 1986 to the present.
Published
in Details, Spin, Harper’s, The
New York Times, Rolling Stone, Le Monde
(Paris), Folha de São Paulo
(Brazil), and elsewhere. Articles have included features and essays on a
variety of subjects in addition to technology—pop music stars, movies,
science-fiction writers, drag aesthetics, and the cultural politics of Carmen Miranda.
EDUCATION
ITT International Fellowship. 1986‑87. Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil.
Pursued
self-designed program in Brazilian cultural studies, with focus on popular
music.
Yale University. 1982‑86. New Haven.
B.A. in
English, summa cum laude. Awards for creative writing; for essays on English,
German, and Latin American literature; and for composition in Portuguese,
Spanish, and German. Co-founded and co-edited Nadine, Yale’s first
pop-music quarterly.