Nathan Jurgenson is a social media theorist and author of “The Social Photo: On photography and social media” (Verso Books, 2019). Nathan was founder and editor in chief of Real Life magazine (2016-2022). He co-founded and chaired the Theorizing the Web conference (2011-2020), and is editor emeritus at the New Inquiry. He also worked as Sociologist at Snap Inc (2013-2022).
Much of this work centers on a critique of “digital dualism”, a phrase he coined to describe the false belief that the internet is a separate virtual sphere or cyber space. Instead, Nathan approaches digitality as embodied, material, and real.
Nathan lives in Los Angeles, California.
nathanjurgenson@gmail.com