Heather Horst, Associate Project Scientist

University of California Humanities Research Institute
http://www.uchri.org/

Three Expertise Keywords:
domestic life, mobile-phones, transnationalism

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Research:
https://webfiles.berkeley.edu/~hhorst/research.htm

Stories from the Field: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/node/85

Digital Youth Project:
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/

Recent Posts:

1. Heather A. Horst: Families and Media Ecology (December 2, 2008)
2. Horst, Herr-Stephenson, & Robinson: Media Ecologies, Genres of Participation (November 21, 2008)
3. Heather Horst: Coming of Age in Networked Public Culture (August 9, 2007)

Description of Current Work:

I am currently working on a literature review of mobile phone, gaming, social network sites and digital media production in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:

Heather A. Horst. 2006. The Blessings and Burdens of Communication: The Cell Phone in Jamaican Transnational Social Fields. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 6(2):143-159

Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller. 2006. The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication. London and NY: Berg.

Anastasia N. Panagakos and Heather A. Horst. 2006. Return to Cyberia: Technology and the Social Worlds of Transnational Migrants. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 6(2): 109-124

Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller. 2005. From Kinship to Link-up: Cell Phones and Social Networking in Jamaica. Current Anthropology 46(5): 755-778