Heather Horst, Postdoctoral Scholar
Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley
http://issc.berkeley.edu/
Three Expertise Keywords:
digital-media-at-home, Identity-formation, social-network-sites
Read More: Stories from the Field: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/node/85
Digital Youth Project:
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/
Recent Posts:
- Heather Horst: Coming of Age in Networked Public Culture (August 9, 2007)
Description of Current Work:
My current work on the Digital Youth project involves an examination of the role of technology in the daily lives of Silicon Valley families. In addition, I am working with Laura Robinson and Mimi Ito on a project which explores kids’ understanding of value on Neopets.com.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication. Oxford and New York: Berg Press (with Daniel Miller), 2006.
Neopoints and Neo Economies: Emergent Regimes of Value in Kids Peer-to-Peer Networks American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA. November 16, 2006 (with Mimi Ito), 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, 2006.
Return to Cyberia: Technology and the Social Worlds of Transnational Migrants. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 6(2): 109-124 (with Anastasia N. Panagakos), 2006.
From Kinship to Link-up: Cell Phones and Social Networking in Jamaica. Current Anthropology 46(5): 755-778 (with Daniel Miller), 2005.
