Dan Gillmor teaches, writes, and speaks on the development of media and technology. At Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, he teaches digital media literacy and promotes entrepreneurship in journalism. He is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People and Mediactive. His upcoming project, entitled Permission Taken, looks at the increasing control that companies and governments are exerting over the way we use technology and communicate, and how we can take back some of that control. Dan writes a regular column for Slate's Future Tense channel, and is a frequent contributor to Medium's Backchannel technology site. He has co-founded, advised, and served on boards at a number of media-related companies and nonprofits, and speaks widely around the world on media and technology topics.