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Arthur Kroker | |
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| Born | 1945 (age 79–80) Red Rock, Ontario, Canada |
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| Spouse | Marilouise Kroker (m. 1971;died 2018) |
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| Education | McMaster University (PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Victoria |
Arthur Kroker (born 1945) is a Canadian author,editor,educator and researcher of political science,technology and culture.
He earned a PhD in political science from McMaster University in 1975. In addition to being a professor of political science at the University of Victoria,Kroker serves as director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (PACTAC),located at the university. Kroker was appointed to the Canada Research Chair in technology,culture and theory in 2003. He was the editor for the online academic journal CTheory ,an international journal of theory,technology and culture.
Kroker has been an outspoken critic of the transformation of the early internet into a consumer-driven system ("virtual class"). Austrian magazine Monochrom interviewed him about his political motivations in 1996. [1]
He was married to Marilouise Kroker from 1971 until her death in 2018. [2]
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