Patrice Riemens

Bio

"Although I do research, write and publish (soemtimes even in newspapers!) I am not a media person in the traditional sense of the word - not with the 'old media'. but I surely think I can be described as a 'new media' person. I am not a professional either - a category which in our age of 'Transition' forms in my view more a problem than a solution anyway.

Media-wise I belong, a.o., to the group that founded nettime.org, have moderated it for some time, and am still a regular contributor. Also to the Sarai Reader list, and the Commons-law list. All three are fairly well established discussion platforms in both the Global North and the Global South.

For the remainder I have been contributing to/ publishing in scientific/ academic reviews like Multitudes (France), Cultural Politics (UK), and a number of others. I research and write about issues which are very adjacent to the concept of commons, or belong to it outright. For instance my contributions to the Open Publications/ Open Access/ Open Review movement."