User:Tuh18327/Daniel Miller (anthropologist)

Education
Miller was originally trained in archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge but has spent his entire professional life at the Department of Anthropology at the University College London, which has become a research center for the study of material culture and where more recently, he established the world's first programme dedicated to the study of digital anthropology.

Anthropological position
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.

While studying the Trinidadian and Tobago culture, Miller and Slater established a theory that place did not matter in regards to online spaces. Although it isn't a physical interactive space, the case study still observed a rich, immersive culture. Throughout Miller's research he realized that being Trini online was an important interaction of people and the Internet. The participants in the research referred to themselves as Trinis. They interviewed about 25 Trinidadian UK residents who were observers for the study and gathered a sense through emailed surveys and ICQ chats, of what it was like for diasporic Trinis in the UK area. About 10 of the informants were international students who studied in the United Kingdom for three years and the rest resided in the UK. Miller studied diasporic Trinis from the United Kingdom by using ethnographic approaches that included observation and participation in chatrooms like de Trini Lime and de Rumshop Lime. These chatrooms were filled with discussions related to sex, music, gossiping or for Trinidadians: 'ole talk'. These terms and specifically named chatrooms portrayed the strength in Trinidadian nationalism through online spaces. The concluding results indicated that geographical place did matter online, especially in regards to the Trini community.

Major Works
(2017) Miller, D. Anthropology is the discipline but the goal is ethnography. University College London.

(2017) Miller, D. Christmas: An anthropological lens. Journal of Ethnographic Theory. University College of London.

(2017) The ideology of friendship in the era of Facebook. Journal of Ethnographic Theory. University College of London.

(2018) Miller, D and Venatraman, S. Facebook Interactions: An Ethnographic Perspective. University College London. Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India.

(2019) Miller, D. Contemporary Comparative Anthropology: The Why We Post Project. Ethnos.