We at the Centre for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM) welcome you back to the seminar series celebrating a decade of interdisciplinary digital scholarship at Umeå University. Throughout the year, DIGSUM will host monthly seminars featuring leading researchers, emerging scholars, and invited speakers working at the intersection of digital technology and society. We will start with two interesting seminars in September (see programme below).
The seminar series highlights the breadth and vitality of digital social research across the Social Sciences Faculty and beyond, showcasing work in Sociology, Informatics, Pedagogy, Law, Social Work, and others. Each seminar invites conversation on the sociotechnical conditions shaping contemporary life – spanning digital cultures, algorithms and automation, data governance, platform power, digital politics, ethics, and more.
The programme below is preliminary. We will keep you updated!
Seminar programme – autumn 2026
10 September, 12:15 - 13:00
“Therapeutic and nontherapeutic uses of social media for young adults: Informing social workers and mental health clinicians working with young adults and their families”
Paul Dodemaide, PhD student in Social Work at Victoria University (Australia)
17 September, 12:15-13:00
“Racializing Muslims: A case study of riots in Sweden in August 2020”
Vihang Jumle, PhD Student in Communication and Media Studies at University of Bern
15 October, 12:15-13:00
“Towards a Novel Framework for Robot Literacy Among Adults”
Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen, PhD, SScD, Professor of Education at the University of Lapland
5 November, 12:15-13:00 (cohosted with FODI)
“Darknet and the rise of dead drops – the Swedish condition”
Tove Westberg, Postdoc in Sociology at Lund University
Seminars take place over lunch 🥡 once a month on Thursdays at Umeå University (the room will be announced later) between 12:15-13:00, including a fifteen-minute Q & A session. All students, researchers, and interested colleagues are warmly welcome!
We hope to see you on location, but you are also welcome to join via Zoom:
https://umu.zoom.us/j/67690806973
meeting ID: 676 9080 6973
For more information about the seminar series see [here].