Media theorist, and long-time DIGSUM collaborator, Pieter Verdegem of the University of Westminster, UK, will give a talk in Umeå University’s #frAIday series this Friday. The talk is based on the new edited book AI for Everyone? which is downloadable (open access).

DIGSUM is happy to present a new issue of The Journal of Digital Social Research, our open access journal.

An essay has been posted by DIGSUM Director Simon Lindgren, reflecting on the #facebookdown outage that struck on Monday October 4.

Don't miss this week's seminar in Umeå University’s #frAIday series, featuring Joanna Bryson.

DIGSUM is hosting one of the keynotes and tracks — Power, Influence(rs) and Politics: New Forms of Visual Cultures — during the upcoming conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Humlab.

DIGSUM's Digital Sociology group is looking for new PhD candidates. The positions are fully funded and salaried for four years.

Eight out of the ten seminars, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers, hosted by DIGSUM during the spring of 2021 are available as a YouTube playlist.

Susanne Tafvelin, Associate Professor of Psychology, has won a large research grant to study robots and AI in the social services.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Chris Bail who will talk about his new book on how to make social media platforms less polarizing.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Mark Carrigan who will reflect on the first six months of the Post-Pandemic University: an online magazine, podcast hub and event series supporting dialogue about how the university will be changed by the pandemic crisis.

The video of Brooke Foucault Welles’ DIGZOOM talk on race and gender justice in hashtag activism is now online.

Associate Professor Eva Mårell-Olsson has published a new paper in IxD&A: Interaction Design and Architecture(s) about how gamification can be used as an online teaching strategy.

Lev Manovich — one of the leading theorists of digital culture worldwide and a pioneer in the application of data science for analysis of contemporary culture — gives a talk, hosted by Humlab at Umeå University, about his new book Cultural Analytics on May 6 2021.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Brooke Foucault Welles who will talk about networks of race and gender justice in hashtag activism.

Yet another DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. It features Deen Freelon talking about Hashtag Heroes vs. Disinfo Dystopia.

We have now posted a video of Hannah Metzler’s DIGZOOM talk in which she presented a study of collective emotions during COVID-19.

Charles Ess’ talk in our DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. He discusses digital ethics, and poses the question of whether one should kick a robot dog.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Deen Freelon who will talk on Hashtag Heroes vs. Disinfo Dystopia:
The Left, the Right, and the Truth About Social Media Activism.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Hannah Metzler who will talk about digital traces of collective emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Sarah T. Roberts who will give a talk based on her decade-long study of the commercial content moderation industry – its people, practices and politics.