Tim Jordan

Tim Jordan is an emeritus professor at the University College London in the Department of UCL Arts and Sciences. Prior to that, he worked at the University of Sussex, King's College London in culture, media and creative industries and digital humanities departments, and has previously worked as the head of the sociology department at the Open University. He has published his work on hacking and online cultures. He was co-founder of the journal Social Movement Studies.

Academic career

Jordan was a reader in Sociology at the Open University for eleven years and during his time there he became the head of the department of sociology. He moved to King's College London, in 2011.

Areas of interest

Jordan has specific interests in internet cultures and the way internet technologies have affected wider cultures. He has worked on politically motivated hacking and has researched hacking communities. Jordan took part in an Open University learning video in 2009 in which he discussed computer hacking. Jordan commented on the case of hacker, Gary McKinnon, in his book: Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism and in an interview with Time World. He also criticized the 'absurd' security of the US online defences.

Selected bibliography by Jordan

Jordan's work has been translated into seven languages.

He is the author of several books on the sociology of the Internet and social movements: The Digital Economy (2020) Information Politics (2015) Internet, Culture and Society (2013) Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism (2008) Hactivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause (2004) Activism!: direct action, hacktivism and the future of society (2002) Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet (1999) Reinventing revolution: value and difference in new social movements and the Left (1994)