Michael Strangelove

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Michael Strangelove is a lecturer in the Department of Communications at the University of Ottawa and author of The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement (University of Toronto Press, 2005), which was nominated for a Governor General's Award for English non-fiction in 2006.

In 1991 the Association of Research Libraries published the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists, coauthored by Michael Strangelove and Diane Kovacs. This was the first print directory to document scholarly Internet resources.^{[citation needed]}

In the Spring of 1993 Strangelove launched The Internet Business Journal (IBJ), quite possibly the world's first newstand magazine devoted to covering the commercialization of the Internet. Its first issue was published a year before the World Wide Web made its debute. IBJ ran for three years, May 1993 to September 1996.^{[citation needed]}

In April 1993 Business Week told its readers about IBJ's "futuristic subject matter."^{[citation needed]}

Contibuters to IBJ included such pioneers as Dr. Vinton Cerf, Christopher Locke, Jim Carroll, Dr. Susan Hallam, Michel Bauwens, Dr. Norman Coombs, Ann Okerson, Douglas Adams, Kevin Savetz, Dr. Hawley Black, Martha Siegel, Laurence Canter, and Dr. Leslie Regan Shade.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994 Strangelove authored the very first book to describe Internet advertising techniques, How to Advertise on the Internet.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998 Strangelove's entire Ph.D., dissertation, Redefining the Limits to Thought within Media Culture: Collective Memory, Cyberspace and the Subversion of Mass Media, was made freely available on the Internet at www.strangelove.com, at a time when only a handfull of doctoral disserations were freely available on the Web.^{[citation needed]}