Dr Rebekah Cupitt

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.

Highlights

• Blog posts and opinion pieces:

  2019 Writing disability

  2018 We Have Never Been Digital Anthropologists

  2017 As if I were Blind...

  2017 What the $@#! is an “implication for design”?

ORCID

0000-0001-8180-9271

Research

Research Centres and Institutes

• Co-Director, Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture (BIRMaC)

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions external to Birkbeck:

1

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

4

Current doctoral researchers

• DARIA PONOMAREVA

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2022 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, Jun 2020 onwards

Teaching

Teaching modules

• 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