Richard Barbrook is an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.

Early life and education

Barbrook was born in Nottingham in 1956 and grew up in

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, where his father taught US politics at the University of Kent. He studied for a BA in Social & Political Science at Downing College, Cambridge, an MA in Political Behaviour at University of Essex and a doctorate in Politics & Government at

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. Barbrook joined the Labour Party in 1980, aligning himself with the

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left within the party.

Career

In the early 1980s, he was involved with pirate and community radio broadcasting. Helping to set up the multi-lingual Spectrum Radio station in London, he published extensively on radio issues during this period. Having worked on media regulation within the EU for some years at a research institute at the University of Westminster, much of his material was published in his 1995 book ''Media Freedom''. In the same year, he became the coordinator of the Hypermedia Research Centre at Westminster's Media School and was the first course leader of its MA in Hypermedia Studies. Working with Andy Cameron, he wrote the essay "

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" a pioneering critique of the neo-liberal politics of ''

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'' magazine. His other important writings about the Net include "The Hi-Tech Gift Economy", "Cyber-communism", "The Regulation of Liberty", and "The Class of the New". In 2007, Barbook moved to the Social Sciences School of the University of Westminster and published his study of the political and ideological role of the prophecies of artificial intelligence and the information society Imaginary Futures. The Media Ecology Association selected Imaginary Futures as the winner of the 2008

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Award for Outstanding Book of the Year in the Field of Media Ecology. Barbrook is a founding member of Class Wargames and co-wrote the script to the group's film: Ilze Black (director), ''Class Wargames Presents Guy Debord's The Game of War''. During the 2016 Labour leadership election, he wrote Jeremy Corbyn's Digital Democracy Manifesto. In May 2017, he assisted in the development of the viral 2017 general election videogame CorbynRun. In November 2017, Barbrook began working with the Labour Party on digital democracy and games. His work focuses on preparing the Labour for government through crisis planning and role-playing of future scenarios that may occur after a potential Labour election win. Prudent for Labour to 'war-game' for power, says party's digital guru
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Selected works

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Cyber-Communism: How The Americans Are Superseding Capitalism In Cyberspace
. ''Science as Culture''. 9 (1), 5–40. *Barbrook, Richard. (15 May 1996).
Global Algorithm 1.5: Hypermedia Freedom
. '' Ctheory''. 19 (1–2). * *Barbrook, Richard. Andy Cameron. (1996)

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. ''Science as Culture''. 26, 44–72.

References

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