Margie is a DPhil student at the OII.
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Margie Cheesman is a digital anthropologist based at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her doctoral research examines the use of blockchain technologies in humanitarianism, and involves fieldwork in Jordan’s refugee camps. Margie’s research interests include digital identity, inequality and rights. She has previously worked for the civil liberties initiative, Open Migration, and conducted research with organisations such as the GSMA Mobile for Development group and InfoMigrants. As a researcher at the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CReSC) (2013-16) she evaluated digital strategies for international cultural diplomacy and news provision. Margie is also an editorial assistant for academic publications such as the ARITHMUS collected issue, Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights (Routledge, forthcoming).
Keywords: blockchain, digital identity, development and humanitarianism, critical data studies, anthropology
Supervisors at the OII
Latest blog posts
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Anticipating Blockchain for Development: Data, Power and the Future
Date Published: 20 November 2017
Authors: Margie Cheesman
In this post, Margie Cheesman, the CII group’s new anthropologist, tells us about her background research and doctoral interests, which are at the intersection ... Read More Anticipating Blockchain for Development: Data, Power and the Future
Current projects
- Gillespie, M., Osseiran, S. and Cheesman, M. (2018) Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances, Social Media + Society
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OxDeg: Researching Data in Humanitarianism: Ethnographic challenges
31 October 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Margie Cheesman and Léa Macias for the OxDeg talk 'Researching Data in Humanitarianism: Ethnographic challenges'.
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Anticipating Blockchain for Development: Data, Power and the Future
20 November 2017
Author: Margie Cheesman
In this post, Margie Cheesman, the CII group’s new anthropologist, tells us about her background research and doctoral interests, which are at the intersection ... Read More Anticipating Blockchain for Development: Data, Power and the Future