Mark Dery

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". 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.