The current global situation of Covid-19 presents an opportunity to find out if seniors are using digital technology in ways that help them face negative consequences of isolation and if they have started using technology in a more socially connecting way.
The third talk in our DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. It features Nick Couldry talking about media’s role in social order.
Another talk in our DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. It features Whitney Phillips talking about an ecological approach to online harm.
This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Nick Couldry, who will talk about his theoretical writings on media, first on television, then on social media, and most recently on processes of datafication.
For this week’s DIGZOOM seminar, we welcome Whitney Phillips who will talk on the topic of: The Apex Predator President: Using Ecological Metaphors to Reframe Harm Online.
The Wallenberg Foundations (MMW) have approved funding for the 5-year DIGSUM project Cyborg Politics: A study of artificial agents in online democratic deliberation.
The Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI) invites applications for nine two-year post-doctoral positions.
DIGSUM researcher Sam Merrill has recently published an article with Nigel Copsey (Teesside University, UK) on Violence and Restraint within Antifa.
The first talk in our DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. It features Zizi Papacharissi talking about Affective Publics: Solidarity and Distance.
Our first speaker is Zizi Papacharissi who will talk about “Affective Publics and COVID-19: Solidarity and Distance” on Thursday 28 January. While this talk is fully booked, places are still available for other talks in the series.
DIGSUM and Humlab at Umeå University invites PhD students to take part in our course Digital Research.
This Thursday, you are all welcome to a seminar (co-hosted by the Department of Sociology and CEDAR) concerning the influence of AI on the future of unpaid labour.
DIGSUM director Simon Lindgren's contribution to a recent popular science report is based on an analysis of bots on Twitter during the run-up to the US election.
DIGSUM-affiliated PhD student Kalle Eriksson has recently started work on his thesis about politicial visions of AI and automation.
DIGSUM digital sociology researcher Sam Merrill has recently published two new articles that interestingly emphasise the political intersection between digital and highly material spaces.
The Swedish Information Systems Academy (SISA) has announced that this year’s Börje Langefors award for best dissertation in the field of information systems goes to Daniel Skog at SCDI.
The recently published special issue of DIGSUM’s Journal of Digital Social Research is entitled Unpacking the Algorithm: Social Science Perspectives on AI.
Every Friday, #frAIday hosts inspiring talks on artificial intelligence by Umeå University researchers, as well as internationally acclaimed experts.
DIGSUM's Digital Law research group has received funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR) for the project 'HYDE – Human agency and the rule of law in semi-automated decision-making systems'.