Bart Barendregt is associate professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, of Leiden University, who has an interest in popular and digital culture, and has published on Southeast Asian performance, new and mobile media, and (Islamic) pop music. He is currently affiliated to several NWO-sponsored research projects, including the Articulation of Modernity Project focusing on societal change through the prism of popular music, and The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of Digital Futurities in which he is looking at Islamic ideas of Information society, halal software and appropriation and localization of digital technology in an overt religious context.