Dr Fabian Broeker

Dr Fabian Broeker is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE.

Fabian’s research focuses on technology and everyday life, particularly social media and dating apps, and how these interplay with questions of intimacy and identity. He is interested in urban environments and digital media practices and the study of these through ethnographic methodologies. Fabian holds a PhD from King’s College London, where he conducted an ethnographic study into young dating app users in Berlin, investigating the way dating rituals are narrativized and intimacies enacted across platform. He is currently writing a monograph based on his PhD fieldwork, "Love and Technology", to be published with Routledge. He is an Associate Member of the Digital Anthropology Lab, University of Tübingen, and has a background in digital anthropology, completing his MSc in the subject at UCL. Alongside his research, Fabian is a filmmaker and videographer, having worked with clients across a variety of industries, including the BFI and the British Independent Film Awards. While in his visual work he is primarily active outside of academia, he is looking to merge these two sides of his career in future. As a researcher interested in digital media and platforms, Fabian has also worked as a research consultant with clients including Google and Word on the Curb.

Expertise

Digital Ethnography, Social Media, Platforms, Dating Apps