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Joseph Daniel Lasica is an American entrepreneur, public speaker and journalist. He is the author of Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation [1] (2005), a book about the copyright wars and the future of media.[2][3]
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J. D. Lasica | |
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J. D. Lasica (2008) | |
| Born | Joseph Daniel Lasica Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Rutgers University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Author, journalist, entrepreneur, public speaker |
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Lasica was born in Passaic, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University, where he holds a BA in communication.
He began working in journalism as a reporter for the Passaic Herald News,[4] then held several editing positions at the Sacramento Union and Sacramento Bee[5] in California. He left newspapers in 1997 when he joined Microsoft's Sidewalk.com city guide as copy chief and managing editor.
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From 1997 to 2005, Lasica wrote dozens of freelance articles for publications such as the American Journalism Review, where he was its first new media columnist; the Online Journalism Review, where he was its chief columnist; and the now-defunct Industry Standard magazine. In 2003 Lasica was editor of the white paper We Media: How Audiences Are Shaping the Future of News and Information,[6] published by the Media Center at the American Press Institute. From 2004 to 2005 he was a columnist for Engadget, a technology blog. His book "Darknet" came out in May 2005.
In March 2005 he co-founded Ourmedia,[7] a grassroots media community and one of the first video hosting and sharing sites on the Internet, with co-founder Marc Canter. He served as its chief executive until his departure in December 2008.
Lasica was also founder and president of Socialmedia.biz, a consulting firm and collaborative blog that provides social media services to companies. In May 2009 he launched Socialbrite.org, a learning center and collaborative blog for nonprofits and social change organizations.
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He has written three reports for the Aspen Institute:
(1) The Mobile Generation: Global Transformations at the Cellular Level.[10]
(2) Civic Engagement on the Move: How mobile media can serve the public good.[11]
(3) Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet's impact on business, governance and social interaction.[12]
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