Dominic Boyer

Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University in the United States, he is concerned in his research with developing an anthropological approximation to the intellectual and professional sector, along with his studies on the mass media, journalism, public culture and the forms of social belonging. In these fields he has published Spirit and System: Media, Intellectuals, and the  Dialectic in Modern German Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Understanding Media: A Popular Philosophy (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2007).