Pfaffenberger (1949 - ) received his PhD at Berkeley in anthropology, studying religion, symbolic interactionism, and the cultures of South Asia.  He is an expert in cyberlaw, the impact of the internet on society, as well as the technology of non-industrial, non-Western societies.  As a social anthropologist, he has published on the literature of technology and the "total social phenomenon" of technology, arguing for increased efforts to understand this aspect of societies.  Pfaffenberger is currently on the editorial board of the journal Knowledge, Technology, and Policy.