Recent Developments in the Anthropology of Digital Media: Exploring the Influencer Phenomenon

Natalia A. Chernyaeva is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Museum Technologies, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests embrace visual anthropology, digital ethnography, anthropology of motherhood and reproduction, and Soviet ethnography. Her recent publications include: “How Northern Peoples Live and What They Do:” Representation strategies of Indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia in children’s literature, 1920s–1930s (2024, in Russ); Imagining the Soviet East: Narratives of popular ethnography in a series of pamphlets, the “Female Worker of the East” 1927–1929 (2022, in Russ).