Heather A Horst
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 361 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Heather A Horst |
| PRENOMES | Heather A |
| SOBRENOME | Horst |
| ASSINATURA | HORST H A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7391-7616 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 416 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
The making of style
The global fashion industry is changing with the integration of digital technologies. Designers now employ digital design software, tools and technology to develop innovative designs, purchase fabrics and materials and market their new designs. Digital media and technology have also contributed to the growth of influencers and personal stylists who use social media and apps to offer reviews and advice, including personal devices that leverage mac…
Digital Gifts and Rituals
In Chapter 4 we revisit historical discussions around mobile media as gift and the important anthropological meanings of the gift as a practice into power relations and rituals, to think about how we might expand upon this practice in terms of location. Here location, co-location and co-presence are revisited
G and the digital imagination
This article explores the ways in which 5G networks are imagined in the Pacific Islands nations of Fiji and Papua New Guinea. What promises, anxieties and futures have the prospects of 5G provoked, and for whom in particular? To answer this question, we consider how current mobile network users, corporate techno-elites and state actors such as regulators and politicians imagine 5G futures. We argue that 5G deployment is challenged by the cosmolog…
Beyond extraction
This article draws upon a desk-based review and expert interviews with practitioners in the Global South to understand the diverse forms of data mediation that have become increasingly visible in the wake of the global coronavirus disease-19 pandemic. In contrast to accounts that frame the Global South solely as a site for the extraction of data and cheap, unskilled digital labor, we explore alternative accounts of the ways in which individuals a…
Beyond the tropicalization of concepts
In this introductory section of the special issue titled “Beyond the Tropicalization of Concepts: Theorizing Digital Realities With and From the Global South,” the editors present a critical examination of the unquestioned adoption of theoretical frameworks from dominant regions of power and knowledge in the context of the Global South. This process, referred to as the “tropicalization of concepts,” is scrutinized for its consequences, which incl…
We just ‘ SHAREit ’
This article examines how the use of mobile phones and associated software creates and sustains regionally diverse urban communities. There is an interdependent connection between music that is highly participatory and locally relevant, and processes involved in sustaining key social relationships across a variety of groupings. Increasingly ubiquitous technologies such as mobile phones are used for musical purposes in ways that specifically put c…
Six principles for a digital anthropology
This chapter proposes six basic principles as the foundation for a new subdiscipline: digital anthropology. The term digital will be defined as all that which can be ultimately reduced to binary code but which produces a further proliferation of particularity and difference. The dialectic refers to the relationship between this growth in universality and particularity and the intrinsic connections between their positive and negative effects. The …
The anthropology of mobile phones
The mobile phone is one of the most ubiquitous objects around the world. When mobile phones were introduced in 1979 to mass markets, they were an expensive technology available largely to wealthy business people living and working in industrialized contexts. The cost and capabilities of a mobile phone and the quality of the mobile network and associated services to operate varies considerably across countries and contexts. When mobiles entered th…
Gendered and generational dynamics of domestic automations
Automation in the home is often presented as a value neutral process which makes life easier, more efficient and more productive. As recent research on the introduction of domestic technologies has revealed, these technologies are rarely value neutral and often work to reinforce gender dynamics in the household. This article examines the gendered and generational dimensions of how smart and automated technologies are being integrated into homes. …
Looking professional
From innovations such as virtual fit through 3D body scanning, smart clothes, wearable technology and virtual styling assistants to more mundane capabilities such as digital photography and social media, deciding what to wear and how to wear an item is now accompanied by a range of new information and perspectives. This article examines the sociotechnical systems that support everyday decisions about what to wear, and how this decision-making pro…
Living in, with and beyond the ‘smart home’
Storing and sharing
Solid-state drives, Bluetooth capabilities, smartphones, “the cloud,” social media platforms, and other digital technologies have fundamentally altered how we share and store digital materials. This article sets an agenda for understanding how people manage the proliferation of digital material in their everyday lives through a close examination of the strategies and rituals different people around the world employ to organize, curate, or delete …
Digital housekeeping
The availability and affordability of memory and other services formats to store digital material has proliferated over the past 15 years. Making, sharing and storing digital material is now a mundane practice that is part of a broader ecology of living with different kinds of data. This article examines routines of managing networked technologies in the home: digital housekeeping through three core practices of sharing and storing everyday data.…
Introduction
This Special Issue examines the relationship between imaginaries and infrastructures. Through a specific focus on the Asian region, the four articles contained herein demonstrate how these imaginaries span, transform and proliferate various boundaries. They also create new regimes of visibility and present a range of ethical dimensions for those who use them and the companies and governments that regulate the infrastructures. These include dating…
New Media Technologies in Everyday Life
This chapter focuses on the ways in which the creation and engagement with media is embedded in the everyday lives of youth and family and becomes part and parcel of coming of age and the attendant project of the self in Western contexts such as Silicon Valley. The ‘moral economy of the household’ is expressed through the process of objectification, incorporation and conversion, wherein new media technologies become a normal and accepted part of …
The Digital and the Human
The digital should and can be a highly effective means for reflecting upon what it means to be human, the ultimate task of anthropology as a discipline. To date, most of the literature on the revolutionary impact and potential of the digital has tended to follow Hart in focusing upon the abstract end of the equation. The digital extends the possibilities previously unleashed by money, equally the positive and the negative. A critical contribution…
Digital Media Practices in Households
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically explores how households are being understood, articulated and defined by digital media practices. It explores the rise of self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at distance as part of contemporary household dynamics
Introduction
This essay introduces the a collection of articles in a special issue focused upon ‘Media, Culture and Change across the Pacific’. It foregrounds the importance of media in reconfiguring our relationships to different categories of place. It asks the following: When does media drive culture change and when might it even act as a conservative force? How do different forms of media, with different patterns of ownership, authorship, and participatio…
Digital Anthropology
Children's perspectives and attitudes towards Fortnite 'addiction
Playing digital games is increasingly pathologized as an addiction or a disorder, but there is limited research into the impact of game addiction discourse on children who play digital games. In this article, we present results from a study into the digital play of twenty-four 9-14-year-olds, attending to our participants' perspectives and attitudes towards 'game addiction' and how it interacts with their play and identity. Focused primarily on t…
Situating the Appeal of Fortnite Within Children's Changing Play Cultures
Fortnite is a massively multiplayer online "battle royale" game that rapidly grew in 2018 to become one of the most popular digital games in the world, with a reported peak of 10.8 million concurrent players and 250 million registered players in March 2019. Based on 24 interviews with young people aged 9-14 (17 boys and 7 girls), this article sets out to provide an account of the appeal and experience of Fortnite. While it is impossible to pinpoi…
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
Cultural Cosmologies of the Internet
In this panel we consider how social actors situate uses of technologies within systems of moral norms and values while at the same time compelling the creation of new ones. Popular discourse tends to present dualistic thinking of the positive and negative impacts of technologies. Scholars have engaged with the internet and digital media, emphasising emancipatory subcultures (Coleman 2014; Gehl 2016, 2018) or presenting a critical view of the con…
Creating Consumer-Citizens
Digicel Fiji launched its new mobile network in Albert Park in the nation's capital Suva. Described by many Fijians as 'spectacular', the company held a free concert that featured Jamaican reggae artist Sean Kingston and New Zealand's
A Living Fence
The blessings and burdens of communication
Although much mention has been made of the importance of ICTs for transnational migrants, we know relatively little about how these technologies affect or change everyday transnational communications. Tracing the shift from community phone boxes to individually owned mobile (cell) phones in rural Jamaica, in this article I focus on the integration of mobile phones in Jamaican transnational communication. Equipped with a mobile phone, rural Jamaic…
From Kinship to Link-up
On the basis of lists of numbers saved on individuals cell phones and other evidence, it is argued here that lowincome Jamaicans use the cell phone to establish extensive networks, a practice identified as linkup. Linkup has many of the same characteristics as those found by R. T. Smith in a classic study of Jamaican kinship and genealogy. However, the new evidence suggests that kinship merely exemplifies a pattern that may be found in a wider ra…
Return to Cyberia
This special issue on 'Return to Cyberia' is an attempt to evaluate the contemporary moment of new cultural and social forms influenced by rapidly evolving technologies in their first critical decade. It contains five case studies that highlight the range of transnational experiences - from temporary migrants and refugees to the second generation. The contributors address how and why transnational populations use particular communication technolo…
The infrastructures of mobile media
In this contribution to the inaugural issue of Mobile Media & Communication, I draw upon recent work on mobiles in the global south to illustrate how the ‘third wave’ of mobile communication research requires a renewed focus upon the political and economic dimensions of infrastructures and the subversion of the system by individuals, communities and organizations. Inspired by Susan Leigh Star’s seminal work on the importance of studying infrastru…
Data anxieties
Digital data is an increasing and continual presence across the sites, activities and relationships of everyday life. In this article we explore what data presence means for the ways that the everyday is organised, sensed, and anticipated. While digital data studies have demonstrated how data is deeply entangled with the way in which everyday life is lived out and valued, at the same time our relationships with data are riddled with anxieties or …
Mobile communication in the global south
Mobile communication has become a common phenomenon in most parts of the world. There are indeed more mobile subscriptions than there are people who use the internet. For many people outside of the metropolitan areas of Europe and North America, this is literally their first use of electronically mediated interaction. This preface to the special issue of New Media & Society examines mobile communication in a global context. Through an overview of…
Tactile digital ethnography
In this article we focus on the relationship between vision and the hand to develop an understanding of the experience of mobile media use which in turn informs a methodology for researching it; a tactile digital ethnography. Theories of knowing through the hand, and uses of the hand in documentary practice already highlight its significance. We bring these together with our video ethnographies of mobile media use, to show how a focus on the hand…
Materializing Ethnography
The articles in this volume were originally presented in a panel entitled \n‘Material Methodologies’ at the American Anthropological Association \nmeeting in New Orleans (November 2002). The panel was devised to tie \ntogether theoretical advances in the study of the material with the \ncreative possibilities of fieldwork practices. Through detailed ethnographic \ndiscussion, we highlighted the ways in which a focus on a \nspecifically material w…
Digital Anthropology
The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings
This article draws upon recent work among Haitian migrants living at the Haitian‐Dominican border in order to examine the role of mobile phones in cross‐border movement in the region. Like other migrants and displaced populations, Haitians use technologies such as mobile phones to keep in touch with their families and maintain social relations as well as organising economic activities and the circulation of remittances. Yet the dependence of Hait…
The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones
The moral economy of mobile phones implies a field of shifting relations among consumers, companies and state actors, all of whom have their own ideas about what is good, fair and just. These ideas inform the ways in which, for example, consumers acquire and use mobile phones; companies promote and sell voice, SMS and data subscriptions; and state actors regulate both everyday
Digital work and play
In this article, we advance current discussions by bringing together debates about digital play and digital labour. We consider everyday life entanglements of mobile media and digital work and play at home. To develop this argument, we analyse the embodied and affective dimensions of mundane everyday life at home with digital media through the concepts of atmosphere and ambient play. We argue that attention to how digital play is implicated in th…
Normativity and Materiality
As with all material culture, the digital is a constitutive part of what makes us human. Social order is itself premised on a material order, making it impossible to become human other than through socialising within a material world of cultural artefacts, and includes the order, agency and relationships between things, and not just their relationship to persons. This article considers the consequences of the digital culture for our understanding…
Rethinking Ethnography
This special issue of Media International Australia seeks to 'rethink' ethnography and ethnographic practice. Through the six contributions, the authors consider the variety of ways in which changes in our media environment broaden what we think of as 'media', the contexts through which media are produced, used and circulated, and the emergent practices afforded by digital media
Storing and sharing
Solid-state drives, Bluetooth capabilities, smartphones, “the cloud,” social media platforms, and other digital technologies have fundamentally altered how we share and store digital materials. This article sets an agenda for understanding how people manage the proliferation of digital material in their everyday lives through a close examination of the strategies and rituals different people around the world employ to organize, curate, or delete …
From street to satellite
How do users incorporate mobile money into their existing practices and adapt it to their needs? The answers can be surprising. Simultaneously a commodity, a store of value, and a social good, mobile money combines a large array of applications within the one platform. This is why mobile money has been touted for its potential for socioeconomic development, as a profitable commercial enterprise, and even as a tool for strengthening governance. Th…
Beyond the tropicalization of concepts
In this introductory section of the special issue titled “Beyond the Tropicalization of Concepts: Theorizing Digital Realities With and From the Global South,” the editors present a critical examination of the unquestioned adoption of theoretical frameworks from dominant regions of power and knowledge in the context of the Global South. This process, referred to as the “tropicalization of concepts,” is scrutinized for its consequences, which incl…
Digital housekeeping
The availability and affordability of memory and other services formats to store digital material has proliferated over the past 15 years. Making, sharing and storing digital material is now a mundane practice that is part of a broader ecology of living with different kinds of data. This article examines routines of managing networked technologies in the home: digital housekeeping through three core practices of sharing and storing everyday data.…
A Pilgrimage Home
This article is concerned with the construction of ancestry in Jamaica. Based upon a comparison of burial tombs in inalienable, 'ancestral' family land as well as in churchyards and cemeteries, I explore how the painted, polished or embellished cement structures mediate the relationship between people and land, a primary locus of identity in the Caribbean. Examining the ways in which the tombs are decorated and augmented, I argue that the creatio…
Social Media in Rural China
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Banking on the Market
The role of the market in the provision of "social goods" (Söderbaum 2005) has been at the fore of academic discussions over the past few decades as governments and other state actors outsource their provisioning to corporations and other market mechanisms (Schwittay 2011). In Haiti, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have played a significant role in this shift, due to their capacity to act as "platforms" for service delivery (Ken…
Children's perspectives and attitudes towards Fortnite 'addiction
Playing digital games is increasingly pathologized as an addiction or a disorder, but there is limited research into the impact of game addiction discourse on children who play digital games. In this article, we present results from a study into the digital play of twenty-four 9-14-year-olds, attending to our participants' perspectives and attitudes towards 'game addiction' and how it interacts with their play and identity. Focused primarily on t…
Situating the Appeal of Fortnite Within Children's Changing Play Cultures
Fortnite is a massively multiplayer online "battle royale" game that rapidly grew in 2018 to become one of the most popular digital games in the world, with a reported peak of 10.8 million concurrent players and 250 million registered players in March 2019. Based on 24 interviews with young people aged 9-14 (17 boys and 7 girls), this article sets out to provide an account of the appeal and experience of Fortnite. While it is impossible to pinpoi…
Downtown ladies
Beyond extraction
This article draws upon a desk-based review and expert interviews with practitioners in the Global South to understand the diverse forms of data mediation that have become increasingly visible in the wake of the global coronavirus disease-19 pandemic. In contrast to accounts that frame the Global South solely as a site for the extraction of data and cheap, unskilled digital labor, we explore alternative accounts of the ways in which individuals a…
A Pilgrimage Home
This article is concerned with the construction of ancestry in Jamaica. Based upon a comparison of burial tombs in inalienable, 'ancestral' family land as well as in churchyards and cemeteries, I explore how the painted, polished or embellished cement structures mediate the relationship between people and land, a primary locus of identity in the Caribbean. Examining the ways in which the tombs are decorated and augmented, I argue that the creatio…
Materializing Ethnography
The articles in this volume were originally presented in a panel entitled \n‘Material Methodologies’ at the American Anthropological Association \nmeeting in New Orleans (November 2002). The panel was devised to tie \ntogether theoretical advances in the study of the material with the \ncreative possibilities of fieldwork practices. Through detailed ethnographic \ndiscussion, we highlighted the ways in which a focus on a \nspecifically material w…
From Kinship to Link-up
On the basis of lists of numbers saved on individuals cell phones and other evidence, it is argued here that lowincome Jamaicans use the cell phone to establish extensive networks, a practice identified as linkup. Linkup has many of the same characteristics as those found by R. T. Smith in a classic study of Jamaican kinship and genealogy. However, the new evidence suggests that kinship merely exemplifies a pattern that may be found in a wider ra…
The Politics of Identity in the Caribbean
Return to Cyberia
This special issue on 'Return to Cyberia' is an attempt to evaluate the contemporary moment of new cultural and social forms influenced by rapidly evolving technologies in their first critical decade. It contains five case studies that highlight the range of transnational experiences - from temporary migrants and refugees to the second generation. The contributors address how and why transnational populations use particular communication technolo…
The blessings and burdens of communication
Although much mention has been made of the importance of ICTs for transnational migrants, we know relatively little about how these technologies affect or change everyday transnational communications. Tracing the shift from community phone boxes to individually owned mobile (cell) phones in rural Jamaica, in this article I focus on the integration of mobile phones in Jamaican transnational communication. Equipped with a mobile phone, rural Jamaic…
‘You Can't Be Two Places at Once’
This article examines transnational social fields among returned migrants in Jamaica. Comparing the experience of return to Jamaica by individuals who migrated to England and the United States, I explore how migration dynamics shaped the possibilities and predicaments of life upon return. Despite sharing an identity as ‘returning residents,’ I argue that post-World War II Jamaican migrants in England who returned to Jamaica in the 1990s reestabli…
Planning to Forget
This article examines the processes underpinning the restructuring of violence in urban Jamaica. Focusing upon the formation of Portmore, a planned community built to provide an alternative to the overcrowded and violent living conditions in west and central Kingston, I analyze planners and residents attempts to disrupt and erase the everyday experience of violence and poverty among working class Jamaicans. Tracing the shift away from politically…
Gating Communities
This issue of Home Cultures presents papers originally delivered at the 'Symbols of Division and Markers of [Dis]order: Gated Communities as Fortified Spaces in a Neo-colonial World' panel at the American Anthropological Association Meetings in Chicago in 2003. The five articles take as their subjects communities that reflect the many varieties of fortified social space in the Americas, including a U.S. military officers' retirement community and…
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use. Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intri…
Living and Learning with New Media
Living and Learning with New Media
Social network sites, online games, video-sharing sites, and gadgets such as iPods and mobile phones are now fixtures of youth culture. They have so permeated young lives that it is hard to believe that less than a decade ago these technologies barely existed. Today’s youth may be coming of age and struggling for autonomy and identity as did their predecessors, but they are doing so amid new worlds for communication, friendship, play, and self-ex…
New Tech, New Ties
Downtown ladies
Mobile communication in the global south
Mobile communication has become a common phenomenon in most parts of the world. There are indeed more mobile subscriptions than there are people who use the internet. For many people outside of the metropolitan areas of Europe and North America, this is literally their first use of electronically mediated interaction. This preface to the special issue of New Media & Society examines mobile communication in a global context. Through an overview of…
Aesthetics of the Self. Materiality and Connectivity in the Digital Age
Communication Theory and Research in the Age of New Media
The Communication Monographs Cafe has become a neighborhood fixture—a spot for conversation about ideas that are circulating in the discipline and that have the potential for shaping scholarship in
Rethinking Ethnography
This special issue of Media International Australia seeks to 'rethink' ethnography and ethnographic practice. Through the six contributions, the authors consider the variety of ways in which changes in our media environment broaden what we think of as 'media', the contexts through which media are produced, used and circulated, and the emergent practices afforded by digital media
Normativity and Materiality
As with all material culture, the digital is a constitutive part of what makes us human. Social order is itself premised on a material order, making it impossible to become human other than through socialising within a material world of cultural artefacts, and includes the order, agency and relationships between things, and not just their relationship to persons. This article considers the consequences of the digital culture for our understanding…
The infrastructures of mobile media
In this contribution to the inaugural issue of Mobile Media & Communication, I draw upon recent work on mobiles in the global south to illustrate how the ‘third wave’ of mobile communication research requires a renewed focus upon the political and economic dimensions of infrastructures and the subversion of the system by individuals, communities and organizations. Inspired by Susan Leigh Star’s seminal work on the importance of studying infrastru…
From street to satellite
How do users incorporate mobile money into their existing practices and adapt it to their needs? The answers can be surprising. Simultaneously a commodity, a store of value, and a social good, mobile money combines a large array of applications within the one platform. This is why mobile money has been touted for its potential for socioeconomic development, as a profitable commercial enterprise, and even as a tool for strengthening governance. Th…
From roots culture to sour fruit
From aggressive marketing campaigns in print, television and billboards to corporate sponsorship of sporting events and corporate social responsibility programmes in the community, the logos, jingles, billboards and other forms of advertising are part and parcel of branded landscapes in which we live. Over the past decade, online, mobile and social media have also emerged as part of these branded landscapes. How have social media changed the ways…
Visualising ethnography
Two decades on from Hal Foster’s seminal essay on the ‘artist as ethnographer’, a range of ethnographic approaches have emerged to understand and analyse the relationship between ethnography, art a
The role of mobile phones in the mediation of border crossings
This article draws upon recent work among Haitian migrants living at the Haitian‐Dominican border in order to examine the role of mobile phones in cross‐border movement in the region. Like other migrants and displaced populations, Haitians use technologies such as mobile phones to keep in touch with their families and maintain social relations as well as organising economic activities and the circulation of remittances. Yet the dependence of Hait…
The Great Indian Phone Book
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