Jesse Hirsh is a broadcaster, researcher,

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and Internet evangelist in

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, Canada. He has appeared on

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, and has a weekly spot on

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where he explains and analyses trends and developments in technology. He co-hosts an

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show on

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called '' 3D: Dialogue''.

Personal life

Hirsh was educated at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, where he also studied with sociologist

Barry Wellman Barry Wellman (born 1942) is a Canadian-American sociologist and is the co-director of the Toronto-based international NetLab Network. His areas of research are community sociology, the Internet, human-computer interaction and social structur ...

. In 1995, while studying at UofT, Hirsh was arrested for "unauthorized" use of a computer.''Terminal anarchist subjected to strip-search''

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, November 3, 1995, retrieved December 19, 2015

References

External links

Jesse Hirsh's personal web site

Jesse Hirsh's commercial web site
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