Dr Rebekah Cupitt
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Overview
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
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research Centres and Institutes
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Digital Culture
- Digital Design Thinking
- Visual Design and Web Project
- Designing Interactions
- Final Project MA Digital Media
- Researching Digitally
- Web Development and User Experience
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Cupitt, Rebekah (2023) Diversity-centred design: thinking through video-mediated communication systems for disability and neurodiversity. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 14535, pp. 132-138. ISSN 0302-9743.
- Cupitt, Rebekah and Forstorp, P-A. and Lantz, A. (2019) Visuality without form: video-mediated communication and research practice across disciplinary contexts. Qualitative Inquiry 25 (4), pp. 417-431. ISSN 1077-8004.
Book section
- Cupitt, Rebekah (2025) Sympoietics: the co-mingling of creative agents. In: Posocco, Silvia and Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J. and Aarberg, L. and Altay, T. (eds.) Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures. EASA Series. Berghahn. pp. 257-295. ISBN 9781805398585.
- Cupitt, Rebekah and Acevado, S.M. and Colligan, S. and Black, V. and Bookman, M.R. and Durban, E.L. and Koneczny, N.A. and Olson, K. (2024) Video meetings: access and disrupture. In: Fagan Robinson, K. and Carew, M.T. and Groce, N.E. (eds.) Inaccessible Access. Rethinking Disability Inclusion in Academic Knowledge Creation. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9781978841468.
- Cupitt, Rebekah (2022) Anthropology and digital media: multivocal materialities of video meetings and deafness. In: Costa, E. and Lange, P.G. and Haynes, N. and Sinanan, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology. Routledge Anthropology Handbooks. London, UK: Routledge Taylor & Francis. pp. 200-212. ISBN 9781003175605.
Editorial
- Marshall, J.P. and Cupitt, Rebekah (2024) Introduction: Technology and ethics. Science & Technology Studies 37 (2), pp. 2-12. Finnish Society for STS. ISSN 2243-4690.