Prof. David Nemer, Ph.D.
Visiting Fellow, CAS Research Group “Below the Radar?”
University of Virginia
Media Studies
David Nemer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
His research interests cover the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology of Technology, Information and Communications Technologies for Development, and Misinformation Studies. David Nemer is an ethnographer whose fieldworks include the favelas of Vitória, Brazil; Havana, Cuba; Guadalajara, Mexico; and Eastern Kentucky, Appalachia. He is the author of Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press, 2022), winner of the 2024 Sally Hacker Prize and 2022 Marcel Roche Award, and the author of Favela Digital: The other side of technology (Editora GSA, 2013). Nemer holds a PhD in Computing, Culture, and Society from Indiana University. He has written for The Guardian, El País, The Huffington Post (HuffPost), Salon, The Intercept, UOL, and CartaCapital.
At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa (Ethnology, LMU), he is a Visiting Fellow at CAS and part of the CAS Research Group Below the Radar? Messaging Apps, Encryption and the Enticement of Extreme Speech.