Margie is a DPhil student at the OII.
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Margie’s experiences and interests are interdisciplinary as she has undertaken degrees in Classics and English (BA), Theology, Philosophy and Ethics (AKC), and Digital Anthropology (MSc). She has worked at the Centre for Research on Sociocultural Change (CReSC) on various projects evaluating international cultural diplomacy, and on Mapping Refugee Media Journeys, a report about refugees’ uses of smartphones. Margie continues to work for The Observer and Open Migration.
Research interests: innovation, big data, digital infrastructures, distributed ledger technologies, international development, ICTs for development, power, human rights, transparency and trust, privacy and security, identity and digital identity, media, anthropology, STS, methods.
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
Past 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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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