This is the website of Philipp Budka, a sociocultural anthropologist from Vienna, Austria. It provides information about his work, publications, projects and university courses.
Philipp is a research associate and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. He is interested in technology, infrastructure, media, visual culture, politics, globalization, and ethnography. He has conducted fieldwork in Canada, Austria, Mexico, and several internet environments.
Philipp's research has been published in a range of journals and edited volumes, as well as in the media. He has recently contributed to Anthropologica, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Visual Anthropology, The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology and The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Philipp has co-edited the Anthropologica special issue on infrastructures in Canada, as well as the volumes Theorising Media and Conflict and Ritualisierung - Mediatisierung - Performance.
Philipp is currently working on two monographs: one on the Indigenous internet platform MyKnet.org and digital sovereignty in northwestern Ontario, and another on transportation and infrastructural sovereignty in northern Manitoba. He is also co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography on ethnographic approaches to infrastructure, forthcoming in February 2026, with most contributions already available online first.
Philipp is co-founder of the Digital Ethnography Initiative (DEI) at the University of Vienna and a member of the Austrian Polar Research Institute. He was a lecturer in the M.A. program Visual and Media Anthropology at the FU Berlin and the HMKW Berlin for seven years. From 2017 to 2024, he was co-convenor of the Media Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Philipp holds a Ph.D. (Dr.phil.) in Social and Cultural Anthropology and an M.A. (Mag.phil.) in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Communication Studies from the University of Vienna.
To learn more about Philipp's research and teaching activities, take a look at his blog. He can also be reached via email: ph.budka(at)philbu.net
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