Babarczy, Eszter

 

Eszter Babarczy is a new media researcher, cultural historian, journalist. She studied literature, art history, philosophy, political philosophy, modern history and communication studies in Budapest and New York. Her writings have been published in several periodicals, daily papers and internet portals since 1988. She has been working for the interdisciplinary new media research group, MOKK BME since 2002, and led the Virtual Enterprise Project for Magyar Telekom in 2004. Presently she is adjunct professor for media and culture at the Hungarian Academy for Applied Arts and Design (MIE). She is the founder and manager of several internet communities, e.g. Bura (www.bura.hu) which is an open web community for people with depression or personality disorders, the former www.korridor.hu, a collaborative and open discussion forum and opinion outlet for Hungarian politics and society, and Bolyai Műhely Alapítvány (www.bom.hu) which is a restricted access community for talented youth in Hungary with communication, cooperation and collaborative filtering tools.