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 various journals and books, as well as in the media. He has recently contributed to Visual Anthropology, The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology and The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Philipp is the co-editor of Theorising Media and Conflict and Ritualisierung - Mediatisierung - Performance and he is currently working on two other book projects: a monograph on the Indigenous internet environment MyKnet.org and digital sovereignty in northwestern Ontario, and a book on transportation and infrastructural sovereignty in northern Manitoba.
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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