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University of Kent, Canterbury

University of Kent, Canterbury

The University of Kent has a distinctive mission. We are the UK’s European university with an international reputation in which Europe meets the world. We are a leading research-intensive UK university creating a global student and staff community that advances knowledge and stimulates intellectual creativity, and performs at the highest levels. We believe in the unity of research and teaching, in the freedom and responsibility that staff have to question and test received wisdom, in the transforming power of higher education, in acting with integrity, and the value of an inclusive and diverse university community. We are committed to growing, shaping and supporting the regions in which we operate so that we may have a positive impact.   http://www.kent.ac.uk/...

Sally Applin

Sally Applin

Sally A. Applin is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, in the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC) with a focus on mediated and PolySocial Reality (PoSR). She holds a Masters degree from the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (NYU/ITP) within New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and a BA in Conceptual Design from San Francisco State University. Sally has had a 20+ year career in the science museum design, computer software, telecommunications, and product design/definition industries working as a Senior UX Designer, Senior Consultant and Ethnographer. Sally is a founding member of AnthroPunk and is currently researching the impact of technology on culture, and the consequent inverse: specifically the reifications of Network Space in Personal Space. Sally is also a member of IoT Council, a think tank for the Internet of Things....