Heather Horst

Biography

Heather A. Horst is Professor of Design Anthropology at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Digital Anthropology at University College London and an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. A sociocultural anthropologist by training, she researches material culture, mobility, and the mediation of social relations, through the study of homes, clothing, and technology. Her publications 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; The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Island Perspectives; and Digital Media Practices in Households. She is also the Executive Producer of documentary films “Smartphones and Parenting: Fijian Perspectives” with Robert J. Foster, Romitesh Kant, Eliki Dragunalevu and the University of the South Pacific, “Mobail Goroka” on mobile phone infrastructures in Papua New Guinea with Robert J. Foster, Verena Thomas, Jackie Kauli and the University of Goroka, and a forthcoming film on the Fijian fashion industry with Rako Pasefika.