Margie is a DPhil student at the OII.
Margie Cheesman
DPhil Student
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. Her PhD research examines the use of blockchain technologies in humanitarianism, and involves fieldwork in Jordan. Margie’s research interests include digital identity, inequality and rights. She 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 organisations such as InfoMigrants, GSMA Mobile for Development, UN Women and the World Food Programme. 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
Blockchains, digital economies, digital identity, aid and migration, critical development studies, feminist technoscience, critical data studies, anthropology
Supervisors at the OII
- 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
- Gillespie, M., Osseiran, S. and Cheesman, M. (2018) Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances, Social Media + Society
Events
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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'.
Blog
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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 ...
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