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Heather A. Horst is sociocultural anthropologist and author who writes on material culture, mobility, and the mediation of social relations. She is currently the Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and a Research Fellow in the MA program in digital anthropology at University College London.〔Top researchers win VC Fellowships. RMIT News (), July 15, 2011.〕 She has a B. A. from University of Minnesota, an M. A. from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Ph. D. from University College, London (UCL). Horst served as an Associate Project Scientist for DML Research Hub in the Department of Humanities Research Institute at University of California, Irvine,〔(“Heather Horst” on University of California-Irvine website ) Accessed: 24 September 2011〕 an Honorary Research Associate in Department of Anthropology and a faculty of Social & Historical Sciences at University College London.〔(“Heather Horst” on University College London website ) Accessed: 24 September 2011〕 Horst’s research focuses upon the relationship between place, space and new media. Her research has been published in a range of journals, including ''Social Anthropology'', ''Current Anthropology'', ''Journal of Material Culture'',〔Tiziano Bonini (2011). The media as ‘home-making’ tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan. ''Media, Culture&Society, 33''(6), 869-883.〕 ''Global Networks'', ''Identities'', ''International Journal of Communication'' and the ''Caribbean Review of Gender Studies''. She has been a guest editor for special issues of the ''International Journal of Communication'', ''Journal of Material Culture'', ''International Journal of Cultural Studies'' and ''Home Cultures''.〔(about-Heather Horst ) Accessed: 22 September 2011〕 She is also the co-author of The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (Horst and Miller, Berg, 2006) and Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with Digital Media (MIT Press, 2009, Ito, et al.). ==Research== Heather Horst’s research focuses on the relationship between material culture and the role of objects and artifacts in mediating social relations, with particular attention to mobility and the global movement of people, objects, goods, media and capital in different national and transnational spaces. ;The Materiality of Personhood The idea of starting this research came from Heather horst’s 'dissertation worked in Mandeville, Jamaica, which explored the imagination, construction and transformation of the meanings of ‘home’ among Jamaicans who migrated to Britain after World War II and returned to Jamaica to retire in the 1990s.' In this research, Heather Horst works on the relationship between material culture, property and personhood by understanding the materiality of the house assert, recognize and negotiate personhood in colonial and postcolonial Jamaica.〔(research-Heather Horst ) Accessed: 24 September 2011〕 ;New Media, Technology and Society In order to examine the relationship between new media in this research, Heather Horst began to study on the 'global and transnational processes involved in the construction of the ‘digital divide’ as part of a multi-national comparative study funded by the British Department for International Development (DFID) to examine the implications of new information and communication technologies in Ghana, India, Jamaica and South Africa working with Daniel Miller.' Also, over the past four years, Horst’s study focuses on 'social change and the power dynamics surrounding the provisioning, access to and use of new media and technology by shifting my attention to the heart of the global technology industry.' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heather Horst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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