Mark Dery

Mark Dery
Mark Dery
	Mark Dery
Born	December 24, 1959 (age 64); Braintree, Massachusetts
Occupation	Cultural critic, freelance journalist, lecturer
Nationality	American
Website
	www.markdery.com

Mark Dery (born December 24, 1959)^[1] is an American writer, lecturer and cultural critic. An early observer and critic of online culture, he helped to popularize the term "culture jamming" and is generally credited with having coined the term "Afrofuturism" in his essay "Black to the Future" in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture.^[2] He writes about media and visual culture, especially fringe elements of culture for a wide variety of publications, from Rolling Stone to BoingBoing.

^ Contemporary Authors Online, s.v. "Mark Dery" (accessed February 12, 2008).
^ Yaszek, Lisa. "Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the History of the Future". Socialism and Democracy, vol.20, no.3, November 2006, pp.41–42.

[cao-1] Contemporary Authors Online, s.v. "Mark Dery" (accessed February 12, 2008).

[Yaszek-2] Yaszek, Lisa. "Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the History of the Future". Socialism and Democracy, vol.20, no.3, November 2006, pp.41–42.

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Mark Dery
Mark Dery
Born	(1959-12-24) December 24, 1959 (age 64) Braintree, Massachusetts
Occupation	Cultural critic, freelance journalist, lecturer
Nationality	American
Website
www.markdery.com