Research Team

Elisabetta Costa is Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA). She is an anthropologist specialising in the study of digital media, social media, journalism, politics, and gender in Turkey and the Middle East.  Follow on Twitter

Nell Haynes is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Cultural and Linguistic anthropology at Northwestern University. She researches the changing nature of indigeneity within global systems of economics, politics, art, and popular culture. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Northwestern University in Anthropology and Theater and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from American University with a concentration in Race, Gender, and Social Justice. Dr. Haynes was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR) at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. As part of Why We Post, she co-authored How the World Changed Social Media and published her first single-authored book, Social Media in Northern Chile. She is currently working on her second book, based on fieldwork in La Paz, Bolivia, exploring indigenous characters in the pop culture spectacle of lucha libre. 

Tom McDonald is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Anthropology from UCL in 2013 and has published numerous academic articles on internet use and consumption practices in China. Follow on Twitter 

aniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at UCL and author/editor of 39 books including 'Tales from Facebook', 'Digital Anthropology' (ed. with H. Horst), 'The Internet: an Ethnographic Approach' (wi

Razvan Nicolescu is a digital anthropologist with research interests in political economy, governance, ideology, informality, social and economic inequality, social norms, consumption, and feelings. R

Jolynna Sinanan is a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University. Prior to this post, she was a Research Fellow in Anthropology at Unive

Juliano Spyer está en el proceso de obtener su doctorado por el departamento de antropología de UCL. Obtuvo su MSc en el programa de antropología digital de UCL. Es el autor del primer libro sobre redes sociales en Brasil, "'Conectado" (Zahar, 2007) y fue consejero digital de la candidata presidencial Marina Silva en 2010. Su formación inicial fue como historiador investigador. Follow on Twitter

Assistant Professor at the Center for IT and Society, Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at IIIT-Delhi (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi). Ph.D. in Anthropology from University College London. Author of a monograph on 'Social Media in South India' (UCL Press) and co-author of a comparative book 'How the World Changed Social Media' (UCL Press). He is also a trained professional statistician and prior to his doctoral studies at UCL, held leadership positions at Walmart, USA. Follow on Twitter

Xinyuan Wang is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at UCL Department of Anthropology. She received her PhD in Anthropology from UCL in 2016. She is an artist in Chinese traditional painting and calligraphy. She is the author of Social Media in Industrial China (2016, UCL Press) and is the co-author of How the World Changed Social Media (2016, UCL Press). She translated Digital Anthropology (ed. Horst and Miller) into Chinese and contributed a piece in the Chinese version of the book Digital Anthropology (2013, Beijing People's Press). Follow on Twitter