• Digital Anthropology & Digital Ethnography (Digital Culture & Politics; Internet Histories)
• Anthropology of Media (Indigenous Media; Media Activism; Mediation of Conflict; Media, Rituals & Performativity)
• Anthropology of Technology & Infrastructure (Technology Appropriation; Socio-Technical Change; Digital & Transport Infrastructures; Technology-Enhanced Learning)
• Visual Anthropology (Visual Culture & Communication; Digital Visuality)
• Anthropology of Globalization (Transnationalism; Ethnicity & Nationalism in Global Context)
• North America

Philipp Budka is research associate and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna. He leads the North American study region in the ERC Advanced Grant Project "InfraNorth - Building Arctic Futures" (PI Peter Schweitzer) and explores transport infrastructures in Arctic Canada. He is a member of the research group Visual Studies in the Social Sciences at the University of Vienna and established the Digital Ethnography Initiative at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology together with Suzana Jovicic and Monika Palmberger. Budka is a founding member and co-convenor of the Media Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Budka studied Social and Cultural Anthropology as well as Communication at the University of Vienna (MA / Mag.phil. 2003) and Utrecht University. Between 2003 and 2013, he coordinated several projects – mainly in the field of digital learning and teaching – at the Austrian Latin America Institute and the University of Vienna. He finished his doctoral studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna in 2017 with a thesis about the indigenization of the internet in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.

Budka is the editor of Theorising Media and Conflict (with B. Bräuchler, 2020, Anthropology of Media Series, Berghahn Books) and Ritualisierung - Mediatisierung - Performance (with M. Luger & F. Graf, 2019, V&R Unipress/Vienna University Press).

• Udupa, S., & Budka, P. (in press). Social media: Power and politics. In H. Callan (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Hoboken: Wiley.
• Budka, P. (2021). Indigenous media: Anthropological notes on cultural activism and sociopolitical change. Manuscript submitted for publication.
• Budka, P. (2021). Kultur- und sozialanthropologische Perspektiven auf digital-visuelle Praktiken. Das Fallbeispiel einer indigenen Online-Umgebung im nordwestlichen Ontario, Kanada. In R. Breckner, K. Liebhart & M. Pohn-Lauggas (Eds.), Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen von Bild- und Medienwelten (pp. 109-132). Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110613681-005
• Bräuchler, B., & Budka, P. (2020). Introduction: Anthropological perspectives on theorising media and conflict. In P. Budka & B. Bräuchler (Eds.), Theorising media and conflict (pp. 3-31). Anthropology of Media. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• Budka, P., & Bräuchler, B. (Eds.). (2020). Theorising media and conflict. Anthropology of Media. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• Palmberger, M., & Budka, P. (2020). Collaborative ethnography in the digital age: Towards a new methodological framework. Digital Ethnography Initiative (DEI) Blog, 13 Nov.
• Budka, P. (2019). Von der Cyber Anthropologie zur Digitalen Anthropologie. Über die Rolle der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie im Verstehen soziotechnischer Lebenswelten. In M. Luger, F. Graf & P. Budka (Eds.), Ritualisierung - Mediatisierung - Performance (pp. 163-188). Göttingen: V&R Unipress/Vienna University Press. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737005142.163
• Budka, P. (2019). Indigenous media technologies in "the digital age": Cultural articulation, digital practices, and sociopolitical concepts. In S. Yu & M. Matsaganis (Eds.), Ethnic media in the digital age (pp. 162-172). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351045315. Introduction of chapter available at http://www.philbu.net/blog/book-chapter-indigenous-media-technologies-in-the-digital-age/
• Luger, M., Budka, P., & Graf, F. (2019). Kultur- und sozialanthropologische Perspektiven auf Ritualisierung, Mediatisierung und Performance - Eine Einleitung. In M. Luger, F. Graf & P. Budka (Eds.), Ritualisierung - Mediatisierung - Performance (pp. 15-28). Göttingen: V&R Unipress/Vienna University Press. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737005142.15
• Luger, M., Graf, F. & Budka, P. (Eds.). (2019). Ritualisierung - Mediatisierung - Performance. Göttingen: V&R Unipress/Vienna University Press. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737005142
• Budka, P. (2017). Digitale Anthropologie. Univie Blog - University of Vienna Blog, 9 Jan.
• Budka, P. (2015). From marginalization to self-determined participation: Indigenous digital infrastructures and technology appropriation in Northwestern Ontario's remote communities. Journal des Anthropologues, 142-143(3), 127-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/jda.6243
• Molyneaux, H., O'Donnell, S., Kakekaspan, C., Walmark, B., Budka, P., & Gibson, K. (2014). Social media in remote First Nation communities. Canadian Journal of Communication, 39(2), 275-288. https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2619
• Budka, P. (2013). Digitale Medientechnologien aus kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Perspektive: Überlegungen zu Technologie als materielle Kultur und Fetisch. Medien und Zeit, 28(1/2013), 22-34. http://www.philbu.net/blog/article-digitale-medientechnologien-aus-kultur-und-sozialanthropologischer-perspektive/

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