Jovicic, Suzana

Digital technologies are now indispensable in everyday life and come with diverse hopes, fears, and uncertainties. As a cultural and social anthropologist, I examine these ambivalences and their multifaceted, often contradictory manifestations in daily practice. The focus is less on abstract or normative evaluations of technology and more on the nuances of how people engage with digital technologies and how these practices are intertwined with political, economic, and societal conditions. My work thematically includes smartphone use and internet dependency, artificial intelligence, digital education, digital design, as well as forms of social and digital inequality.

• Digital anthropology and digital ethnography
• Design anthropology
• Psychological and psychiatric anthropology
• Youth research
• Interdisciplinary, multimodal, and participatory research

• 2008–2011 BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
• 2011–2012 MSc Psychological and Psychiatric Anthropology, Brunel University (UK)
• 2017–2022 PhD candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
• 2019 Research stay, School of Science and Technology, James Cook University (Singapore)
• 2020 Research stay, Centre for Digital Anthropology, UCL (UK)
• 2022–2025 Psychotherapeutic Propaedeutic, University of Vienna
• 2022–2026 Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, CSLEARN Educational Technologies und Computational Empowerment Lab, University of Vienna
• since 2022 Co-Convener European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA)
• 2024 Research stay, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT (Australia)
• 2026 Research stay, Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University (Ireland)
• since June 2026 tenure track professorship in Digital Anthropology, University of Vienna