Margie Cheesman

Margie is a DPhil student at the OII.

Profile

Margie Cheesman is a student on the DPhil in Information, Communication & the Social Sciences.

Margie Cheesman is a digital anthropologist based at the Oxford Internet Institute. Margie works with communities using and making digitalisation projects. Her DPhil research examines the intervention of decentralised digital infrastructures (blockchains) in humanitarianism, and involves fieldwork in Jordan’s refugee camps. She is interested in how the development of money and identity infrastructures intersects with socio-economic inequalities and rights. Margie has worked for the civil liberties initiative, Open Migration, and the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change (CReSC). She has conducted research with international organisations such as InfoMigrants, GSMA Mobile for Development, and United Nations agencies. Margie is Assistant Editor of the journal Big Data & Society, and her editorial work includes Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects and Rights (Routledge, 2019) and Data Practices (forthcoming).

Interests

Aid and migration studies, feminist technoscience, critical data studies, anthropology

Supervisors at the OII

Publications

A. Martin, E. Schoemaker, K. Weitzberg, M. Cheesman (2021) Researching digital identity in times of crisis, The Alan Turing Institute
K. Weitzberg, M. Cheesman, A. Martin, E. Schoemaker (2021) Between surveillance and recognition: Rethinking digital identity in aid, Big Data & Society 8(1)
M. Cheesman and A. Slavin (2021) Self-sovereign identity and forced migration: slippery terms and the refugee data apparatus, in Digital Identity, Virtual Borders and Social Media: A Panacea for Migration Governance? Ed. E. E. Korkmaz
Sim, K and M. Cheesman (2020) What’s the harm in categorisation? Reflections on the categorisation work of Tech 4 Good, Big Data & Society blog
M. Cheesman, Self-sovereignty for refugees? The contested horizons of digital identity (2020) Geopolitics
Gillespie, M., Osseiran, S. and Cheesman, M. (2018) Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances, Social Media + Society
M. Cheesman, The role of big data in refugee contexts (2017) Open Migration.
M. Cheesman, Mapping refugee media journeys: smartphones and social networks (2016) Open Migration

Events

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'.