Professor Anna Cristina Pertierra is the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Regionally, her ethnographic work focuses on Cuba, Mexico and the Philippines, exploring consumption and material culture, urban modernities, media and popular culture. Her current project is a collaborative transnational study among formerly poor residents of four large cities in Asia and the Americas. Anna’s publications include Media Anthropology for the Digital Age (Polity 2018); Media Cultures in Latin America (with Juan Francisco Salazar, Routledge 2020); and Locating Television: zones of consumption (with Graeme Turner, Routledge 2013).