The DIGSUM Centre for Digital Social Research at Umeå University, in collaboration with the Swedish Research Council (VR), invites everyone interested to a 2-day symposium on 18-19 September 2025 to explore how crime and control are reshaped in a digital society.
This symposium entitled DIGITAL DARKSIDE – Crime and control in online spaces brings together scholars across law, criminology, media studies, and digital sociology, the symposium 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.
See the full programme here.
Sign up [here]. Two conference lunches and one dinner included!