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PEOPLE

- Nina Wakeford

- Katrina Jungnickel

- Gerard Oleksik

- Steve Smith

- Sandeep Channarayapatna

 

 

AFFILIATES

- Martin Sønderlev Christensen

- Kris Cohen

- Mary Ebeling

- Magnus Nilsson

- Kate Orton-Johnson

- Søren Mørk Petersen

- Adam Reed

- Sian Griffiths

- Jenny Sundén


  

 

 

 






 

Nina Wakeford - Director
Nina is the Director of INCITE in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey. Her previous research projects include studies of internet studies, women's discussion lists and the use of ethnography by new technology designers.

Sandeep Channarayapatna - Affiliated postgraduate student
Sandeep is a PhD student in the Digital World Research Centre (DWRC). He is interested in storytelling in India.

Katrina Jungnickel - Postgraduate student
Kat's PhD research looks at the role of visual representations and practice in the design, development and use of new digitial technology - in particular wifi.

Gerard Oleksik - Postgraduate student
Gez is a PhD graduate research student at INCITE, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and sponsored by BBC Music Online.

Steve Smith - Postgraduate student
Steve is a PhD graduate researcher at INCITE, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and sponsored by Sapient. His work explores how digitial photography is socially constructed in different sites of production and consumption.

AFFILIATES

Martin Sønderlev Christensen - Visiting postgraduate student (2005)

Kris Cohen - Affiliated researcher
Kris is currently a PhD student in the Art History Department at the University of Chicago. He has just completed a one-year ESRC study on photography and the internet entitled ""

Mary Ebeling - Affiliated researcher
Mary's PhD (completed in 2006) looked at online journalism, political discourse and exile.

Magnus Nilsson - Visiting postgraduate student (2006)
Magnus is currently visiting from Roskilde University in Denmark. His research primarily focus on the mobility and temporality of home-helpers' daily work.

Kate Orton-Johnson - Affiliated researcher
Kate completed her PhD research at INCITE, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in collaboration with Sage Publishing Ltd. She is now at Edinburgh

Søren Mørk Petersen - Visiting postgraduate student (2006)
Søren's research at the IT University of Copenhagen is concerned with the use of camera phones and moblogging, and more generally social software as a cultural formation.

Adam Reed - Research fellow
Adam is a social anthropologist (PhD University of Cambridge, 1977). He was a Research Fellow at INCITE and now holds a position at the University of St. Andrews.

Sian Griffiths - Visiting researcher (2004)
Sian is a BBC Filmmaker on secondment to INCITE, funded by BBC Training and Development's Attachment scheme, a staff development programme which provides opportunities for BBC staff to build on their existing skills, develop new skills and extend their networks.

Jenny Sundé
n - Visiting researcher (2003)
Jenny has a PhD from the Department of Communication Studies at Linköping University, Sweden.