Anthropologist Daniel Miller on Becoming Human
Channel: juliano spyer
Date: 2012-10-30

This is professor Miller's lecture on Becoming Human, part of one of the plenary panels at 2012's Internet Research 13.0 conference. 

Daniel Miller  is Professor of Material Culture at University College, London. His work focuses on material culture, digital anthropology, the study of our relationships to things and consumption. His publications include  Material Culture and Mass Consumption  (1987), (with Don Slater)  The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach  (2000), (with Heather Horst)  The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication  (2006),  The Comfort of Things  (2008),  Stuff  (2010),  Tales from Facebook  (2011), (with Mirca Madianou)  Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia  (2012)  Consumption and its Consequences  (2012), and (with Heather Horst)  Digital Anthropology (2012). He is currently working on a book about the use and consequences of webcams with Jolynna Sinanan. His forthcoming European Research Council funded work will focus on the impact of social media in seven countries.