To mark ✨ ten years of research ✨ within the Centre for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM), we are delighted to launch a new seminar series celebrating a decade of interdisciplinary digital scholarship at Umeå University. Throughout the coming year, DIGSUM will host monthly seminars featuring leading researchers, emerging scholars, and invited speakers working at the intersection of digital technology and society.
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.
Seminar programme – spring 2026
26 February, 12:15 - 13:00
Technology-facilitated sexual violence against adolescent and young adult women
Belma Isakovic, PhD student in Social Work at Örebro University
26 March
“Inside Europe’s shift in platform governance”
Silvia A. Carretta, PhD in Law & AI from Uppsala University and the Wallenberg WASP-HS graduate school, Lecturer at Copenhagen Business School
23 April
“Quantity, Repetition and Affect - The Making of Security on Social Media”
Paul Schmidt, PhD student at the Department of Political Science and the Arctic Graduate School at Umeå University
28 May
“Platformed visual (Im)mobilities”
Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Media and Communication Research at the University of Zürich
Seminars take place over lunch 🥡 once a month on Thursdays in Galaxen at Umeå University. All students, researchers, and interested colleagues are warmly welcome! Zoom links will be available for some of the events, stay tuned!
PS. In September, we will once again host a DIGSUM Symposium! And this time, you bet there will be cake 🎂 More info to follow during the spring…