Adam Fish is a cultural anthropologist and media studies scholar currently teaching in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on media technologies, digital finance, and network activism, with particular attention to surveillance, internet governance, and political economy of digital media. His educational background includes training in anthropology with a focus on contemporary technoculture. His research methodology combines ethnographic approaches with media analysis, often involving participant observation in technology communities and activist networks. Fish's scholarly work examines the intersection of digital technologies and social movements, with significant contributions to understanding hacktivism, internet censorship, encryption politics, and the financialization of social media platforms. His research has taken him to Iceland for studies of data centers, Manchester for ethical hacking workshops, and various sites of digital activism. His publications reveal consistent engagement with themes of digital sovereignty, surveillance capitalism, and the political economy of emerging technologies. His work connects theoretical frameworks from anthropology, media studies, and political economy to analyze contemporary digital phenomena. Fish has contributed to debates about academic ethics in the surveillance era, the political economy of social media platforms, and the future of digital democracy. His work often bridges scholarly analysis with public commentary on current events in technology and politics. As an academic navigating multiple disciplines, Fish has written extensively about interdisciplinary approaches to studying digital culture, advocating for scholars to move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries to address emergent phenomena in technology and society.
