Prof. Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold is the author of Tools for Thought, The Virtual Community, and Smart Mobs.

He was the editor of Whole Earth Review and The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, the founding executive editor of Hotwired, and the founder of Electric Minds. In 2007 he was non-resident Fellow at Annenberg Center for Communication, USC.

He has taught the following courses:
Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall 2005, 2006, 2007)
Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, UC Berkeley, Spring 2008)
Toward a Literacy of Cooperation (Stanford, Winter, 2005) 
Digital Journalism (Stanford University, Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007)

Currently Howard Rheingold is Visiting Professor, De Montfort University, UK.

Current projects:
The Cooperation Project
Participatory Media Literacy
HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation grantee