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Despina Catapoti graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1995), completed her postgraduate studies (MA in Archaeology & Prehistory) at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield (1997) and her PhD thesis at the same university (2005). She is Associate Professor of Cultural Theory and Digital Culture at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean. Her research and teaching interests focus on cultural management and politics, prehistoric archaeology (with many years of experience in archaeological research, excavations and studies) and the history and theory of technology (with emphasis on digital technologies). Her work is positioned at the intersection of digital media and the broader field of cultural heritage (CH), with the aim of assessing the impact and contribution of 'digitality' to the management and enhancement of CH. She has participated in a number of national and international research projects and is an alternate member of the Local Council of Monuments of the Northern Aegean and the National Scientific Committee for the implementation of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Her most recent publications focus on digital theory, social media and memory, philosophy of technology and cyberculture but she remains active in the field of prehistoric archaeological research.