Don Slater is co-director of Configuring Light/Staging the Social and Associate Professor (Reader) in Sociology at the LSE. His current research focuses on light but he also researches and writes extensively on the sociology of material and visual culture, on the sociology of economic life (particularly consumer culture and marketing), and on new media and digital culture. Major publications include: New Media, Development and Globalization: Making Connections in the Global South (Polity 2013); The Technological Economy (2005, with Andrew Barry); The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (2000, with Daniel Miller); Consumer Culture and Modernity (1997).