The Department of Sociology at Umeå University is looking for a postdoctoral fellow. The employee will be part of the NordForsk financed project "PastForward: The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures".

On the 29th of May, DIGSUM and the Department of Culture and Media Studies are hosting a seminar where André Jansson, Karlstad University, will talk about “Searching for the selfie spot: On geomedia and logistical lives”.

On the 19th of April, TAIGA – Centre for Transdisciplinary AI invites you to a talk on “AI moderators and human contextuality” held by Therese Enarsson, Umeå University. The talk is a part of TAIGA’s seminar series #frAIday on different perspectives on AI.

We have an open position for a postdoc to come work with us at Umeå University to study how disinformation and misinformation are created and spread through digital platforms, and how they may affect public opinion and democratic processes.

On the 22nd of March, DIGSUM’s guest PhD student Pasko Kisic Merino, Karlstad University, will be giving a seminar on Anxiety as Ideology: Longtermism, Pro-Natalism, and the Normalisation of the Far-Right’s “Great Replacement” in the Mythos of Silicon Valley as part of the seminar series at the Department of Sociology.

On the 12th of April, the research group Learning and ICT, Umeå University, together with the research group Procesos, espacios y prácticas educativas, University of Salamanca, will host an online symposium titled Rethinking educational spaces. Future Classroom, metaverse and AI.

DIGSUM partner The School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex is looking for a fellow researcher in data visualization and digital heritage.

A new book written by DIGSUM researchers Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Simon Lindgren, titled "Researching Digital Media and Society" was published last week. The book is the result of several years of research, workshops, and PhD courses at our centre, aimed at developing social science research methods for the study of digital media and its societal implications.

The Department of Psychology announces a two-year postdoctoral position for research on interaction between humans and AI, with inspiration from interpersonal psychology, neuroscience, education and robotics.

The Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA) at Umeå University, together with the  UmArts Research Centre, the Department of Law and Umeå School of Architecture is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Analysis in the Arctic context. 

On the 9th of February, TAIGA – Centre for Transdisciplinary AI invites you to a talk on “AI and the written word” held by Thomas Hellström, Umeå University. The talk is a part of TAIGA’s seminar series #frAIday on different perspectives of AI.

Samuel Merrill has received 5,968M SEK in funding for a three-year project called “#NeverForget vs. #NeverHappened: Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation on Social Media”.

On the 1-2nd of February, and with a pre-event on the 31st of January, Humlab and the TAIGA focus area on Critical, Ethical, Legal and Social AI (CELS-AI) will host a trans-disciplinary dialogue about queer perspectives on development and implementations of AI, and what possibilities, constraints and risk, that likely, and possible, AI futures may entail.

On the 1st of December, Tina Askanius and Jullietta Stoencheva from Malmö University will be giving a talk on “The Alternative Influence Network (AIN) of far-right YouTubers in Sweden”.

On the 5th of December, the TAIGA focus area on Critical, Ethical, Legal and Social AI (CELS-AI) and the Department of Law will host a research seminar on the proposal to give the Swedish Security Service a wider mandate to use AI in processing data, including open data from the web, social media etcetera to discover threats.

The book Critical Theory of AI by Sociology professor and DIGSUM director Simon Lindgren is out now. Approaching artificial intelligence from the often overlooked perspective of critical social theory, the book provides a much-needed intervention on how both old and new theories conceptualize the social consequences of AI.

On the 21th of November, Humlab will host a talk on “Studying platforms when platforms restrict access: Methods for critical digital media studies” by Tim Highfield, University of Sheffield.

On the 24th of November, the TAIGA focus area on Education and AI invites you to a talk on “AI literacy – what and for whom?” held by Linda Mannila, University of Helsinki and Linköping University. The talk is a part of TAIGA’s seminar series #frAIday on different perspectives of AI.

On the 10th of November, Astri Moksnes Barbala, Doctor in Sociology and research scientist at SINTEF, will be giving a talk on “Willful subjects in the platform society: Feminist activism and user agency on Instagram”.

Mathilda Åkerlund has received funding for the project “Men who hate women online: A study of the internet as a new arena for the mobilisation of organised gender-based hate”, in which organized forms of misogyny that are expressed in Swedish internet environments will be analyzed. The project will specifically focus on so-called incels.