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Annalee Newitz at Etech 2005

Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology, such as topics on open source software and hacker subcultures. She writes for many periodicals from Popular Science to Wired, and since 1999 has had a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation. From 2004-2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She is the editor of io9, a Gawker-owned science fiction blog.

Biography

Newitz was born in 1969, the daughter of two English teachers — her mother teaching high school and her father at community college — and grew up in Irvine, California. She calls herself "biethnic" because her father is Jewish and her mother is a white Southerner and former Methodist.^[1]

She graduated from Irvine High School, and in 1987 moved to Berkeley, California, where she was influenced by the work of Northern California scholars and personalities such as Judith Butler, Cornel West, and Lawrence Lessig. In 1996, Newitz started doing some of her own freelance writing, and in 1998, she received a PhD in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley, with a dissertation on images of monsters, psychopaths, and capitalism in twentieth century American popular culture. She worked for a time as an adjunct professor, but then in 1999 became a fulltime writer. In 2002, she was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, and was a research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Works

Her work has been published in Popular Science, Wired, Salon.com, New Scientist, The Believer, Metro Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, as well as several anthologies. She is a contributing editor at io9 and Wired, a columnist for AlterNet, and is the editor of the tri-annual indie magazine other. She has discussed her work on CNN, CBS, the Discovery Channel, the BBC and the CBC, written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other newspapers, and she contributes regular commentaries on science and technology to Northern California NPR affiliate KQED.

Significant individual works include:

• (co-founder) Bad Subjects, 1992, touted as the first leftist publication on the Internet (originally published via gopher)
• Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Duke University Press, 2006)
• White Trash: Race and Class in America (Routledge Press, 1997)
• The Bad Subjects Anthology (New York University Press, 1998)
• (co-editor, with Charlie Anders) She's Such a Geek (Seal Press, 2006)

See also

• Biopunk
• Techno-progressivism

References

1. ^ Talbot, Margaret (30 November 1997). "Getting Credit For Being White". New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/magazine/getting-credit-for-being-white.html?pagewanted=3. Retrieved 3 January 2010.  

• Techsploitation.com
• Other Magazine
• Video: Interview from 23C3
• Interview on Blogcritics about Pretend We're Dead
• Interview on NPR
• Gawker Media Gets Strung Out on SciFi: Article in the New York Times
• A Q&A with io9 Editor Annalee Newitz: Article in Wired

External links

• Annalee Newitz at AlterNet
• io9: Strung Out on Science Fiction