We are the Julia Group

Isobel Hadley-Kamptz is an author and freelance writer. She has written for the op-ed and cultural pages for the newspaper Expressen, in magazines such as Arena and Neo and various blogs, including Isobelsverkstad, since 2005. Previously she has also written for the editorial pages of Dagens Nyheter. Her political writing has focused on what in the broad sense can be called freedom issues, and during the last year increasingly on internet-related questions concerning freedom. Her debut novel, Jag går bara ut en stund, was released in 2007 at Albert Bonniers.

Rasmus Fleischer is working on his PhD at the Contemporary History Department at Södertörns University and is writing his dissertation on how the 20th century’s new sound media was received by the music industry and the legislators. Fleischer also writes on culture, and regulary contributes to periodicals such as Sydsvenskan and Metro Teknik. During the autumn of 2009 his debut Det postdigitala manifestet (The post-digital manifesto) will be released by Ink förlag – a book that moves in the borderlands between philosophy and technology, aesthetics and politics. His blog Copyriot, which he has been running since 2004, covers the same topics. Fleischer is one of the co-founders of the Pirate Bureau and there he appears among others as a lecturer and bus traveller.

Lisa Magnusson is a writer and translator. As an online columnist and blogger at www.aftonbladet.se, she reaches 400 000 readers a week. Lisa Magnusson enjoys music, books and low-brow culture. She is also very interested in political debate and considers the Internet to be one of the most important challenges that modern society faces. She therefore hopes that the Julia Group will constitute a constructive influence as public educators and opinionators in a debate that up until now has been so one-sided that it has almost capsized completely.

Marcin De Kaminski is a sociologist and doctoral candidate at the Dep. of Sociology of Law at Lund University. He is a part of the Cybernorms Research Group, where his research focuses on social movements on the Internet and the clash between legal and social norms on the net and afk. Marcin is also a long time net activist and has been co-founder, coordinator and facilitator of many progressive projects and campaigns related to Internet freedom issues. He is also one of the participants in the  expert panel of the Swedish minister of development and cooperation regarding digital democracy and net activism.

Johanna Nylander is a freelance writer and master’s student in cultural- and media production at Malmö University. She has a bachelor’s degree in computer game development from Högskolan Skövde and has worked as an op-ed writer at Expressen and Kvällsposten as well as a columnist for the newspaper Metro. Her blog, Frihet, Fildelning och Feminism has been active since 2005, now at johannanylander.se and she writes widely on politics as well as copyright, integrity, IT and questions regarding technology.

Magnus Eriksson is conducting his research at the interactive institute, focusing on the borderline between man and machine. He also gives lectures about digital culture and the future networks and works of art at political, art and research events. He has been active in the disciplines of sociology and cultural studies, and is one of the co-founders of the Pirate Bureau and their subsequent network projects.

Christopher Kullenberg is working on his PhD in theory of science at the Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science department at Gothenburg University. The working title of his thesis is Sociology in the Making; the Co-production of the Social Sciences and the State. Kullenberg blogs at Intensifier and frequently writes in other publications about Internet and social change.

Karin Ajaxon has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Birmingham Univeristy, England and has previous experience with project management. Her introduction into Internet activism occurred during the second reading of the Telecom package in the European Parliament and during the debate that followed leading up to the EU election. Apart from this she is a co-founder of Pocketblogg, a collaborative blog about books and reading.

Jonatan Walck is a computer technology student at Linköping University, specialising in software/hardware integration. In addition to this he is a net activist and entrepreneur. The internet activism includes numerous projects in various forms on the internet, the most recent being the Julia Group. Jonatan runs Apua IT together with his brother Pontus. The business has been active since 2003 and they are now developing embedded sensor systems connected to the internet.

Julien Nebbout is a programmer with a passion for communication technologies, system integration and martial arts. With a foot in many internet politics related groups and as the co-founder of several online and offline projects, including the think tank the Pirate Bureau and related entities, he has a wide knowledge and understanding of the far corners of the Internet. Today he mostly focus on Network Security, Programming and Web Development both professionally as a volunteer for NGOs

Pontus Walck is an entrepreneur working with IT operations and development, and is also holds lectures and classes on computing and internet on high schools. He has a background in physics, computer science and software development, studying at Stockholm University and KTH – The Royal Institute of Technology. His fascination with the internet and its inherent possibilities has during the last couple years been complemented with a commitment to save it from harmful regulations.