Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais

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Javier Bustamante
Full Professor of Ethics and Sociology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has already
been a Visiting Professor in the Scientific and Technologic Politics Department (DPCT) at Unicamp,
at Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, at UNI-BH and at PUC-MINAS, in addition to titular
of an Ibero-American Professorship of Banco Santander, also at Unicamp. He is the Director
of Centro-Instituto Iberoamericano de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad.
Langdon Winner
Holds the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science
and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. In 1973, Winner
received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at the University
of Leiden, at MIT, the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. From 1985 onwards he has worked at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and was
visiting professor at Harvey Mudd College, and Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. Recently
he was Fulbright Scholar in Spain. His interests include philosophy of technology, American
popular culture, and theories of sustainability. Winner is known for his articles and books on
science, technology, and society. He also spent two years as a writer and contributing editor for
Rolling Stone Magazine.
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira
Associate-Professor of Universidade Federal do ABC. He was president of the National Institute
of Information Technology (2003-2005) and was a member of the Internet Management Committee
in Brazil [Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil] (2003-2005). He researches the relationships
between communication and technology, collaborative practices in the Internet and the theory of
property of immaterial assets. He is the author of the books Exclusão Digital: A Miséria na Era da Informação
and Software Livre: A Luta pela Liberdade do Conhecimento. He is a free software activist.
Alexander R. Galloway
Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York
University. Programmer, he is a founding member of the software collective RSG, creator of the
Carnivore and Kriegspiel projects. Author of Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization
(MIT, 2004), Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), and most recently The
Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007), cowritten with Eugene Thacker.
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