Tim Jordan is editor of Social Movement Studies: journal of social, political and cultural protest and is a Reader in Sociology at the Open University. He is the author of Activism!: direct action, hacktivism and the future of society and co-author of Hacktivism and Cyberwars; rebels with a cause. He has published work on social movements, hackers, the culture and politics of the Internet and social theory and is currently researching online games, while trying not to play them too much.