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Dr Rebekah Cupitt

Positions held:
  • Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
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  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Rebekah Cupitt has a BA (University of Queensland, Australia) and an MA in Social Anthropology (Stockholm University, Sweden) and holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction specialising in Mediated Communication. Rebekah's research focuses on the people who use technology in their everyday lives and the socio-cultural aspects of technology relevant to its design. More specifically, Rebekah examines the ways in which technology influences communication in Swedish Sign Language and how it then becomes an active participant in performances of deaf (and hearing) identity in technology and media-rich organisational contexts. Rebekah's research takes a post-human and anti-normative approach to techno-utopias which often haunt human-computer interactions and therefore have implications for design.

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    ORCID

    0000-0001-8180-9271
  • Research

    Research

    Research Centres and Institutes

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions external to Birkbeck:
    1
    Supervisions within Birkbeck:
    4

    Current doctoral researchers

    • DARIA PONOMAREVA
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor, onwards
      Title of thesis:
      Embodiment of the Futuristic Otherness: Disability and Performative Able-bodiedness of Cyborgs in Video Games
    • EMILY RUSTIN
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor, onwards

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Dissertation MA Film and Screen Media (AHVM020D7)
    • Digital Culture (ARMC222S7)
    • Web Development and User Experience (ARMC243S7)
    • Visual Design and Web Project (ARMC244S7)
    • Digital Design Thinking (ARMC245S7)
    • Final Project MA Digital Media (ARMC248D7)
    • Designing Interactions (ARMC268S7)
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    Book Section

    • Cupitt, Rebekah (2025) Sympoietics: the co-mingling of creative agents. In: Posocco, Silvia and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Aarberg, L. and Altay, T. (eds.) Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures. EASA Series. Berghahn. pp. 257-295. ISBN 9781805398585.
    • Cupitt, Rebekah and Acevado, S.M. and Colligan, S. and Black, V. and Bookman, M.R. and Durban, E.L. and Koneczny, N.A. and Olson, K. (2024) Video meetings: access and disrupture. In: Fagan Robinson, K. and Carew, M.T. and Groce, N.E. (eds.) Inaccessible Access. Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978841468.
    • Cupitt, Rebekah (2022) Anthropology and digital media: multivocal materialities of video meetings and deafness. In: Costa, E. and Lange, P.G. and Haynes, N. and Sinanan, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology. Routledge Anthropology Handbooks. London, UK: Routledge Taylor & Francis. pp. 200-212. ISBN 9781003175605.

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