Alicia Blum-Ross
Research Fellow, Digital World Research Centre
University of Surrey
D. Phil/PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford (viva/defense Sept 2010)
Doctoral dissertation: "Cinema Citzens? Youth Filmmaking and Civic Engagement in London." In current post-doctoral fellowship (funded by the Digital Economy programme), studying the use of community journalism as a tool to facilitate participatory digital design.
Dominic Boyer
Full profile Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Rice University, Houston TX
PhD (with distinction), University of Chicago, Chicago IL 2000
Involved in projects that explore "how the digital media ecology of contemporary news journalism is influencing journalists’ understanding of their vocation and of the relationship of professional newsmakers to audiences/clients/publics."
Julian Dibbell
Contributing editor for Wired magazine
Non-resident fellow of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society
Julian Dibbell has, in the course of over a decade of writing, teaching, and public speaking, established himself as one of digital culture’s most thoughtful and accessible observers. He has published books, essays, and articles on virtual worlds, social media, online communities, hackers, bloggers, music pirates, computer viruses, encryption technologies, and the heady cultural, political, and philosophical questions that tie these and other digital-age phenomena together.
Haidy Geismar
Haidy Geismar lectures in the Dept of Museum Studies, Anthropology, New York University
Areas of interest include visual anthropology, Pacific anthropology, intellectual, cultural and indigenous property rights, economic anthropology, cross-cultural theories of value and valuation, materiality, contemporary indigenous art, museum theory and criticism. Dr. Geismar is also editor of the Material World blog.
Richard Harper
Senior Researcher and Group Leader, Socio-Digital Systems Group, Microsoft Research Cambridge, England
VINNOVA Excellence Center Mobile Life, Stockholm University, Sweden
PhD Sociology Manchester 1989
Heather A. Horst
Associate Project Scientist at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine
Theoretical research interests revolve around the relationship between place, space, culture and communication. Conducted research for the Digital Youth Project while a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley, and co-authored "The Cellphone: An Anthropoloy of Communication" with Daniel Miller.
John Postill
Senior Lecturer in Media, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
PhD in Social Anthropology University College London (UCL) 2000
Specialises in the anthropology of media, founder and coordinator of the EASA Media Anthropology Network. He is also currently the external examiner for the Digital Anthropology MSc at UCL.