18-573: Daniel Miller may refer to: Daniel Miller (anthropologist) (born 1954), anthropologist at University College London Daniel Miller (basketball) (born 1991), American professional basketball player Daniel Miller (cricketer) (born 1983), cricketer for Surrey County Cricket Club Daniel Miller (music producer) (born 1951), also known as The Normal, founder of Mute Records Daniel Miller (engineer) (1825–1868), Scottish civil engineer and inventor Daniel Miller (politician) (born 1973), president of
36-477: A theoretical framework for studying social networking sites , his latest work has proposed new concepts such as of ' polymedia ' and 'Scalable Sociality' as analytical tools for examining the consequences of a situation where individuals configure and are held responsible for their choice of media, while access and cost recede as factors. In 2009, Miller created a new Master's programme in Digital anthropology at
54-433: A fictional character from the television series Every Witch Way Daniel Miller, a fictional character from the 1996 film Carpool See also [ edit ] Dan Miller (disambiguation) Danny Miller (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
72-525: A mother, including studies of au pairs , and Filipina women in London and their relationship to their left behind children in the Philippines. Most of these projects are collaborations. Since the early 2000s, Miller has been researching the effects of new social media on society. Several of his most recent books explore topics such as cell phones , Facebook and transnational families. Together with presenting
90-530: A website containing key discoveries, stories and over 100 films is available in the same 8 languages. The book series had had over one million downloads. From 2017-2022 Miller directed a second five-year project, The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA), which consisted of ten simultaneous ethnographies in Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, China, Japan, Al-Quds (East Jerusalem), Ireland, Italy and Uganda. This project demonstrates how smartphones have developed beyond
108-411: A youth technology, by focusing on usage by people in mid-life. It argued that the smartphone is more a place within which we now live `The Transportal Home’ than just a communication device. It also considers cheaper alternatives to mHealth through using everyday apps for health purposes and making these more sensitive to social and cultural contexts. A general comparative book called The Global Smartphone
126-531: Is also the founder of the digital anthropology programme at University College London (UCL), and the director the Why We Post and ASSA projects. He has pioneered the study of digital anthropology and especially ethnographic research on the use and consequences of social media and smartphones as part of the everyday life of ordinary people around the world. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). Miller
144-506: Is an anthropologist who is closely associated with studies of human relationships to things, the consequences of consumption and digital anthropology. His theoretical work was first developed in Material Culture and Mass Consumption and is summarised more recently in his book Stuff . This work transcends the usual dualism between subject and object and studies how social relations are created through consumption as an activity. Miller
162-476: The Anthropology Department of University College London . Before establishing a new master's programme in digital anthropology , Miller worked with Haidy Geismar who is also an anthropologist, on the examination of the project. In 2012, Miller launched a five-year project called ' Why We Post ', to examine the global impact of new social media. The study was based on ethnographic data collected through
180-616: The Texas Nationalist Movement Daniel C. Miller (born 1956), politician in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Daniel F. Miller (1814–1895), U.S. Representative from Iowa Daniel H. Miller (died 1846), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania Daniel J. Miller (1924–2006), United States Air Force officer Daniel Miller, weekend evening news anchor for WISH-TV Indianapolis Daniel Miller, footballer for Preston Lions FC In fiction [ edit ] Daniel Miller,
198-423: The concept of materialism which presumes human relationships to things are at the expense of human relationship to other persons. He argues that most people are either enabled to form close relationships to both persons and objects or have difficulties with both. With Miller's students he has applied these ideas to many genres of material culture such as clothing, homes, media and the car, through research based on
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#1732863115114216-674: The course of 15 months in China, India, Turkey, Italy, United Kingdom, Trinidad, Chile and Brazil. The project was funded by the European Research Council . The project published eleven Open Access volumes with UCL Press. The Why We Post monographs are published in the languages of their respective fieldsites. In addition, a free online course (MOOC) is available on FutureLearn. The course is also available in Chinese, Portuguese, Hindi, Tamil, Italian, Turkish, and Spanish on UCLeXtend. In addition
234-430: The gradual separation from the objects associated with the deceased as a way of dealing with loss. Complementary to this work on separation from things are three books about shopping, the most influential of which, A Theory of Shopping, looks at how the study of everyday purchases can be a route to understanding how love operates within the family. He has also carried out several projects on female domestic labour and being
252-564: The impact of mobile phones on poverty in Jamaica and more recently the way Facebook has changed the nature of social relationships. Miller's work on material culture also includes ethnographic research on how people develop relationships of love and care through the acquisition of objects in shopping and how they deal with issues of separation and loss including death through their retention and divestment of objects. He argues that since we cannot control death as an event, we use our ability to control
270-433: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daniel_Miller&oldid=1259244981 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Daniel Miller (anthropologist) Daniel Miller (born 24 March 1954)
288-550: The methods of traditional anthropological ethnography in regions including the Caribbean , India and London. In the study of clothing, his work ranges from a book on the Sari in India to more recent research explaining the popularity of blue jeans and the way they exemplify the struggle to become ordinary. His initial work on the consequences of the internet for Trinidad was followed by studies of
306-573: Was educated at Highgate School and St John's College, Cambridge , where he read archaeology and anthropology. He has spent his entire professional life at the Department of Anthropology at the University College London , which has become a research centre for the study of material culture and where, more recently, he established the world's first programme dedicated to the study of digital anthropology. A prolific author, Miller criticises
324-567: Was published in 2021. Monographs on the fieldsites are currently being published. Additional publications will focus on their research concerning mHealth. Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy ( post-nominal letters FBA ) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: The award of fellowship
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