Martijn de Waal

I am a writer, researcher, curator and consultant based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I have specialized in the relation between technology, media and society. I have contributed to several books, magazines and newspapers, both with written and photographed accounts. I have participated in art shows and commercial events, given lectures, taught university classes, organized conferences and written reports. I consider the following five topics as my areas of expertise:

• Digital Culture, Technology & Society
• Globalization, Localization, Media & Cultural Identity
• Technology, Journalism, Civil Society and Public Sphere
• Locative and Mobile Media
• Urban Culture and Urban Development

Currently I am part of the New Media, Public Sphere and Urban Culture research project, supervised by prof. Rene Boomekens at the department of practical philosophy at the University of Groningen. I am also connected to the department of mediastudies at the University of Amsterdam, where over the last few years I taught classes on new media theory.

I am currently a member of the board of the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund. It is the aim of the fund to provide grants to encourage the development and production of cultural radio and television programmes as well as digital cultural products. I am also a member of the board of advisors at Virtueel Platform, the national Dutch sector-institute for e-culture.

Recently I have been a visiting scholar at MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media, a collaboration between the Medialab and Comparative Mediastudies. At the end of the previous century, I also lived in the USA where I studied as an exchange student (UC Berkeley) and worked as a free lance reporter in Silicon Valley for Dutch Media during the dotcom boom days. I have also traveled extensively, mainly in Asia and the middle east and lately I have spent quite some time in China, where amongst others I made a series of radio documentaries for Dutch Public Broadcasting.

See my Linked-in Profile if you wish to see my full cv

I am also the proud father of Kees and Kamiel. And I like to cook.

I can be reached at:

martijn [AT] martijndewaal [DOT] nl

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