Heather Horst, Associate Project Scientist
University of California Humanities Research Institute
http://www.uchri.org/

Three Expertise Keywords:
domestic life, mobile-phones, transnationalism
Read More: Research:
Stories from the Field: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/node/85
Digital Youth Project:
https://webfiles.berkeley.edu/~hhorst/research.htm
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/
Recent Posts:
- Heather A. Horst: Families and Media Ecology (December 2, 2008)
- Horst, Herr-Stephenson, & Robinson: Media Ecologies, Genres of Participation (November 21, 2008)
- 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

