Brief Introduction Top

Hello and welcome to my NUS homepage. I'm an assistant professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. I have previously worked as a visiting assistant professor at the School of Information Systems of Singapore Management University, a researcher at IBM Research in Switzerland, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, also in Switzerland. I hold a Masters in EECS from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a PhD in Telecommunications and Information Systems, also from NTUA and in collaboration with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. I am known for my older work on bandwidth trading and Grid economics as well as my more recent investigations into new communication, licensing and business models for digital media, especially in the context of online communities and social networks.

While at SMU I initiated the CC-Monitor project, a collaboration between the Schools of Law and Information Systems of Singapore Management University and the Creative Commons headquarters in San Francisco. I still work actively on topics concerning the Creative Commons and related communities. I'm an associate fellow of the Center for Asia Pacific Technology Law and Policy (CAPTEL) at Nanyang Technological University, a leading member of Creative Commons Singapore and a member of the ACM, INFORMS and ISAST. I'm also editor of the International Journal on Communications Law and Policy and chair of Free Culture 2008, the first interdisciplinary research workshop on free culture, held in conjunction with the 2008 iSummit.

Teaching Areas Top

Current areas:

• Knowledge Economies (historical perspective, role of technological innovation, propertization, digitization, exchange and reuse of knowledge, properties of information goods, creative destruction, long tail effects)
• Introduction to New Media (origins and convergence, theories of new media, digital divide)
• Copyright and New Media (creative commons and open source movements, ownership and plagiarism)

Current Research Top

I'm currently working on a time series and cross-jurisdictional analysis of the use of Creative Commons licenses, an analysis of the role of DRM in the music industry, and a study of the role of creative reuse in the context of commons-based peer-production methods employed by online communities. I also participate in the NC working group of Creative Commons which is tasked with developing an understanding of the use of the "Non-Commercial" term by users of the Creative Commons licenses.

Research Interests Top

• Growth of 'open': free culture and open source movements
• Cultural Analytics: metrics for tracking openness and cultural flows
• The role of creative reuse in cultural production and the economy
• DRM design, piracy and copyright issues
• User innovation and commons-based production in online communities
• Economics of IT and the Internet
• Market-based resource allocation

Other Information Top

Blog: hoikoinoi

Mailing Address:
Communications and New Media Programme
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
AS6, #03-41
11 Law Link
Singapore 117589