Alexander R. Galloway (born 1974) is an author and professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Galloway's first book, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, is a study of information networks and their political and computational effects.

His other published writings examine film noir, video games, software art, hacktivism, and digital aesthetics.

Galloway has conducted several seminars through The Public School NYC, including "French Theory Today",[1] and translated the work of philosopher François Laruelle and the Tiqqun collective.

He is a founding member of the Radical Software Group (RSG), and his art projects include Carnivore (awarded a Golden Nica prize at Ars Electronica 2002), and Kriegspiel (based on a war game originally designed by Guy Debord).