Samuel Merrill has received funding for a micro-project called Artificial Intelligence and Social Memory: Critical Explorations of AI’s Implications for Societal Remembrance from Umeå University’s Centre for Transdisciplinary AI (TAIGA). The micro-project will contribute to TAIGA’s Critical, Ethical, Legal and Social AI (CELS-AI) focus area and involve visits to Umeå by Associate Professor Rik Smit from the University of Groningen’s Department of Media Studies and Assistant Professor Thomas Smits for the University of Amsterdam’s Department of History. Within the project Merrill, Smit, and Smits will work on an article to be submitted to a special issue dedicated to bridging AI and Memory Studies scholarship.
Samuel Merrill is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Umeå University, specializing in digital and cultural sociology. His research interests centre on social movements, collective memory, cultural heritage and digital media.
Read more about DIGSUM’s research group on Digital Sociology [here].