Heather Horst

Biography

Dr Heather Horst is Principal Research Fellow (Research Associate Professor) and a Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication. She also directs the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University.Dr Heather Horst is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses upon understanding how digital media, technology and other forms of material culture mediate relationships, communication, learning, mobility and our sense of being human. Her books examining these themes include The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (Horst and Miller, Berg, 2006), Kids Living and Learning with Digital Media: Findings from the Digital Youth Project (Ito, Horst, et al., 2009, MIT Press), and Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with Digital Media (Ito, et al. 2010, MIT Press) and, most recently, Digital Anthropology (Horst and Miller, Eds., 2012, Berg). She has been a guest editor for special issues of the International Journal of Communication, Journal of Material Culture, International Journal of Cultural Studies, New Media and Society, Media International Australia and Home Cultures. Heather's current research, supported by an ARC Discovery Grant, two ARC Linkage grants and the Smart Services CRC, explores transformations in the telecommunications industry and the emergence of new mobile media practices such as mobile money and locative media across the Asia-Pacific region.

Research Interest

 digital media and learning,