Mark Dery
American journalist · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1959 · age 66
Mark Dery is an American author, editor, lecturer and cultural critic. An early observer and critic of online culture, Dery helped to popularise the term "culture jamming".
Mark Dery is read about 14 times a day, in 5 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 20 August 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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About this person
He is credited with having coined the term "Afrofuturism" in his essay "Black to the Future" in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Dery writes about media and visual culture, especially fringe elements of culture for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, Wired, Rolling Stone and BoingBoing.
