De:Bug was a German magazine covering "electronic aspects of life", published monthly in Berlin from 1997 to 2014.
Following a new definition of culture, the magazine kept track of electronic music styles such as techno, electro or house, as well as all intersections of daily life with digital technology, focusing on the internet as a social space influenced by issues such as interface design, web art, and file sharing.
[1] In 1997, De:Bug was founded by Alexander Baumgardt, Mercedes Bunz, Jan Rikus Hillmann, Sascha Kösch, Paul Paulun, Riley Reinhold and Benjamin Weiss.
Members of the core editorial team included Sascha Kösch, Thaddeus Herrmann, Jan Wehn, Felix Knoke and Timo Feldhaus.
In March 2014, Kösch announced that issue 181 would be the last, citing economic reasons, in particular the general crisis of print media.