Richard Barbrook

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Richard Barbrook is the coordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster

Richard studied for a BA in Social & Political Science at Downing College, Cambridge, before moving on to Essex and Kent universities by the early 1980s, he got involved with pirate and community radio broadcasting. Helping to set up the multi-lingual Spectrum Radio station in London, he published extensively on radio issues.

Having worked on media regulation within the EU for some years at a research institute at the University of Westminster, much of his material was published in 'Media Freedom: the contradictions of communications in the age of modernity' (Pluto Press, London 1995). Then he became was the first course leader of its MA in Hypermedia Studies at the Hypermedia Research Centre.

Working with Andy Cameron, he wrote The Californian Ideology which was a pioneering critique of the neo-liberal politics of Wired magazine. His other important writings about the Net include The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, Cyber-communism and The Regulation of Liberty.