Geert Lovink (born 1959, Amsterdam) is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures,[1] whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio-economical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue.

[2] As theorist, activist and net critic, Lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the development of the web.

Since 2004 Lovink is a researcher at the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) where he heads the Institute of Network Cultures.

As an Internet activist, he describes tactical media as a "deliberately slippery term, a tool for creating 'temporary consensus zones' based on unexpected alliances.

"[15] In essence, he believes that these new resources of which audiences could become participants in actions against higher powers became an area in which many different types of people could unite.