As technological infrastructures increasingly mediate everyday life, they also transform how harm is enacted, policed, narrated, and resisted. From online vigilantism to platform-driven surveillance, from algorithmic governance to digitally enabled abuse, the digital is not just a backdrop to crime—it is deeply entangled in its formation and interpretation.

This symposium brings together scholars across law, criminology, media studies, and digital sociology. It critically engages with how power, violence, and justice take form in online spaces. We ask how digital technologies blur boundaries between policing and surveillance, how platform architectures influence both criminal activity and its prevention, and how digital environments reshape who is visible, who is vulnerable, and who is believed.

Across two days of keynote lectures and research presentations, the symposium opens up a space for reflection on the shifting dynamics of crime and control. Rather than offering definitive answers, it invites interdisciplinary dialogue about the uncertainties, tensions, and urgencies that define the digital darkside of contemporary society.

Who Can Participate?

Anyone interested in research on digital media, technology, and its contentious, conflictual, harmful, or darker sides will enjoy this. Please feel warmly welcome to sign up, come visit us, listen to great presentations, discuss, and network with an interdisciplinary group of interesting scholars!