Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author. He is an expert on online culture and is arguably the most active media scholar in the Netherlands, for example as the founder of the Institute of Network Cultures.

His publications include Uncanny Networks (2002), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012), Social Media Abyss (2016), Organisation after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019) and Stuck on the Platform (2022). Almost all these books have been translated into German, Italian and Spanish. In 2019 an anthology of his work appeared in Russian with other translations in Turkish and Chinese.

Photo credit: Geert Lovink by Ziko van Dijk