Dr. Philipp Budka is a lecturer and research associate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, where he leads the North American study region of the ERC project “InfraNorth: Building Arctic Futures.” His current ethnographic fieldwork focuses on infrastructural sovereignty and community futures in Northern Manitoba, Canada, and builds on a broader research agenda examining technology, infrastructure, and media in North America and Europe, including ongoing work on internet histories and the social and cultural dimensions of artificial intelligence. He previously collaborated with the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Tribal Council in Northwestern Ontario to study sociotechnical change in remote First Nation communities. A founding member of the EASA Media Anthropology Network and co-founder of the Digital Ethnography Initiative at the University of Vienna, he has taught at universities in Austria and Germany. He has published widely in international journals and edited volumes, and is co-editor of “Theorising Media and Conflict” (2020) and “Ritualisierung – Mediatisierung – Performance” (2019). He is currently completing two monographs on sovereignty and infrastructure in Northern Canada.