# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derrick-de-kerckhove
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:40:00.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derrick-de-kerckhove"
name: "Derrick de Kerckhove"
slug: "derrick-de-kerckhove"
description: "Derrick de Kerckhove is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology from 1983 until 2008."
tagline: "Canadian scholar of language and society (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derrick_de_Kerckhove%2C_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.31
  momentum:             14.51519069166128
  historical:           9.42088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Derrick de Kerckhove"
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    title: "Derrick de Kerckhove"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Derrick de Kerckhove"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump