Political scientist, University of Westminster, London.
 
Richard Barbrook studied at the Universities of Cambridge, Essex and Kent. In the early 80s he was involved primarily with pirate and community radio stations and helped establish Spectrum Radio, a multilingual local radio station in London. From 1995 to 2005 he was coordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster, where he now lectures in Political Science. Barbrook has focused since the 1980s on emancipatory uses of media as in pirate radio stations, for example. In his book, The Class of the New, he critically analyses the notion that a new class of immaterial creative workers comprises society’s avant-garde.
 
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