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Heather Horst
Heather A. Horst is professor of media and communications at the University of Sydney. A sociocultural anthropologist by training, she researches material culture, mobility and the mediation of social relations, especially through digital media and technology. Heather’s books on these themes include The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication; Hanging Around, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media; Digital Anthropology; Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practices; and The Moral and Cultural Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Perspectives. Her current research explores transformations in mobile, social and locative media practices in Fiji and Papua New Guinea.