Business Meeting

Hosted by: Digital Anthropologies Interest Group

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students, Those Involved in Mentoring Activities

(3-1330) Digital Anthropologies Interest Group (DANG) Distinguished Lecture with Heather Horst and Business Meeting

Digital Anthropology Distinguished Lecture followed by DANG’s business meeting and networking mixer open to all.

This year’s Distinguished Lecture is given by Heather Horst, University of Sydney. She discusses her current research, The Moral and Cultural Economy of Mobile Phones in the Pacific, which seeks to understand the profound changes that accompanied the introduction of mobile and smartphones in Fiji and PNG. Focusing upon use and governance of smartphones and data plans, Horst explores the consequences for urban Pacific populations and considers how demands for data may mitigate some meaningful digital, financial and social inclusion that emerged from mobile telecommunications.

Chair(s)

• Heather Horst

  Professor
  University of Sydney

Participant(s)

• Heather Horst

  Professor
  University of Sydney

Organizer(s)

• Sydney Yeager

  PhD Candidate (ABD)
  Southern Methodist University

Chair(s)

• Sydney Yeager

  PhD Candidate (ABD)
  Southern Methodist University