STEVE SMITH - Postgraduate Student

Steve is a PhD graduate researcher at INCITE, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and sponsored by Sapient.

In his current research he empirically investigates how digital cameras are socially constructed in three different sites of production and consumption: advertisements, Sony Centres and an online user group whose members own Fuji branded digital cameras. Central to his work are notions of the brand and branding.

Research methods he employs for his PhD include analysing documents, participant observation, interviewing, ethnography, photography and film. two key texts for his current work are de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life (1984), and bowker and star's sorting things out (1999). Steve has a Masters Degree from the University of Surrey (2001) in Social Research Methods, and a BA (Hons) from the University of Sussex (1999) in Sociology.

In 2001, Steve contributed to the Urban Mobilities project in which he mapped out the number 73 bus route (also see 73urbanjourneys.com) and the Waterloo to Barnes train line.

You can find his CV here

email: s.smith at surrey.ac.uk