Education Background:
2011-2016 PhD in Screen & Media, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
2008-2010 MA in Screen & Media, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
2005-2008 BA in Screen & Media / Computer sciences, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
Previous Employment:
2022-2023 Research Officer, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
2019-2022 Assistant Professor, Fiji National University, Fiji.
2017-2019 Research Associate, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.
Research Interests:
New media and digital technologies
Research Results（selected）：
Snake-Beings, E., Sosa, R., Gibbons, A., Baleisomi Takiveikata, S., Cheng, X., Berthelsen, C.,Ben-Dror, A., Badenhorst, D., Crowe, A., O’Riordan, E., Lorangi, K., & Gibson, L.(2023a). Advanced Computational Thing-Kin: Sociomaterial Kinship and the MakerSpace. Knowledge Cultures, 11(2). 110–123,https://doi.org/10.22381/kc11220237[Q1 SCImago]
Snake-Beings, E.(2023c). A Creative Ethnography Approach: Reconstructing the Socio-Material Remains of the Ghost Ships of Suva, Visual Anthropology, 36(3), 280-295, https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2023.2203298 [Q2 SCImago]
Snake-Beings, E.(2021a). Avoiding the (Tourist) Gaze: Pursuit of the ‘Authentic’ in the Tbilisi Edgelands. Tourism Geographies, 25(2-3), 690-706, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2021.1964589 [Q1 SCImago]
Snake-Beings, E. (2021b). DiY (Do-it-Yourself) Electronics, Coin-operated Relic Boxes &Techno-animist Shrines. Leonardo Journal, 54(5), 500–505, https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01913 [Q1 SCImago]
Snake-Beings, E.(2020a). The Quiet Earth: Re-functioning Socio-material Knowledge In The Crisis of Pandemic. Knowledge Cultures, 8(3), 34–41, https://doi.org/10.22381/KC8320205 [Q1 SCImago]
Snake-Beings, E. (2020b). The Liquid Midden: A Video Ethnography of Urban Discard in Boeng Trabaek Channel, Cambodia. Visual Anthropology, 33(5), 397-411,
https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2020.1824969 [Q2 SCImago]
