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Samuel Becher
Time Lecturer of Faculty Reserve Center
- I am a technology and media scholar at the Center for Science in Society. My work explores media resistance, digital wellbeing and the media and technology industries. I am currently researching government and media communications during the COVID-19 pandemic. I recently completed my PhD at Victoria University of Wellington on the tension between disconnecting from the internet and remaining connected to the world. I studied a pioneer community of software developers, behavioural scientists, and entrepreneurs who invented new technology-based ways to disconnect from the internet. The title of my thesis is The Manufacture of Disconnection. Prior to this I received degrees in Digital Media and Asset Management (Masters, Kings College London) and a LLB and BA in Politics (Hons) from the University of Otago.
