Philipp Budka

Philipp Budka is PhD candidate and part-time lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna. He is interested in media technologies, information and communication technologies, indigenous media, transnationalism, social and cultural theory, ethnicity, production and transfer of knowledge and ethnographic methods. He has been doing work in a variety of fields such as northwestern Ontario, Canada, several internet environments and the University of Vienna. In Canada he has been working with K-Net, one of the world’s leading indigenous internet service providers, to analyze sociocultural practices in relation to internet media technologies.