Christopher Schwartz is the Editor in Chief of NewEurasia.net, post-Soviet Central Asia's largest citizen-journalism network, as well as the editor of the book, CyberChaikhana: Digital Conversations from Central Asia, a contemporary history of the region written from the perspective of its blogging community. He is currently studying political theory at the Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.