Kevin Driscoll / University of Virginia

Kevin Driscoll is an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. His recent research involves alternative histories of the internet, the politics of amateur telecommunications, and the moral economy of consumer software. In collaboration with Julien Mailland, he published "Minitel: Welcome to the Internet" (MIT Press, 2017) and maintains the Minitel Research Lab, USA. His latest book, "The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media" (Yale University Press, 2022) tells a new origin story for social media through the dial-up bulletin board systems of the 1980s and 1990s.