Patrick Burkart

Patrick Burkart is Editor-in-Chief of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture. He is a Professor at Texas A&M University's Department of Communication, and is author of Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society (U California Press); Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests (MIT Press), Music and Cyberliberties (Wesleyan U Press), and Digital Music Wars: Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox (Rowman & Littlefield). He lives in Houston, Texas, USA and researches international communication and media law, policy, and trade in the Western Hemisphere and Europe.