Annalee Newitz

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Annalee Newitz at Etech 2005
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 blog about science fiction owned by the Gawker Media Network.

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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, watching television shows such as Star Trek and Wonder Woman, and reading the works of Karl Marx, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sigmund Freud, Ursula LeGuin, and Fredric Jameson[original research?]. Other influences that she cites include Jared Diamond, Louis Althusser, and Susan Sontag.

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[original research?]. 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 20th Century American pop 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 MIT.

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Her work has been published in Popular Science, Wired, Salon.com, New Scientist, The Believer, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, as well as several anthologies. She is a contributing editor at 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)

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