DIGSUM is happy to present a new issue of The Journal of Digital Social Research, our open access journal. Blockchain Scenes is a special issue, edited by guest editors Nathalie Casemajor and William Straw.
Samuel Merrill will receive NordForsk funding for a three-year project involving researchers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland called: PastForward: The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures.
Mathilda Åkerlund has recently published an article titled The Sweden paradox: US- far-right fantasies of a dystopian utopia. In this article she analyzes how Sweden has come to be imagined and represented on the websites of US far right organisations.
On Friday April 21, Martin Berg, Malmö University, will be giving a talk at DIGSUM’s home department, the department of Sociology. Martin is going to talk about “Duct-tape solutionism in public automation: Repairing for emergent futures (that might not come)”.
On Wednesday 26th of April, Kalle Grill, Umeå University, invites to a workshop on AI and human autonomy - Philosophical perspectives
On the 11th of May, Humlab and the Department of Media and Communication studies, will host a talk on How serious and silly comments interactively construct nationalism on Reddit by Tommy Bruhn, University of Copenhagen & Joanna Doona, Lund University
On the 25th of May, Olle Häggström, professor of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers University of Technology, will visit Umeå University, to give a lecture on large language models, such as ChatGPT, AI risk, and AI alignment.
DIGSUM’s research group in Digital Sociology has recently appointed two new PhD students, Agnes Liminga and Moa Broqvist.
Last year Linköping University’s Institute for Analytical Sociology together with a consortium of partner centres and departments — including DIGSUM — secured funding for an interdisciplinary graduate school in computational social science. The Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science is now open and accepting applications for the first cohort of students.
The TAIGA focus area on critical, ethical, legal, and social perspectives on AI (CELS-AI) and Humlab invites any researchers with an interest in the societal implications of AI to a networking event.
On Thursday 16 February, Jenny Sundén, professor of Gender Studies at Södertörns Högskola and Susanna Paasonen, professor of Media studies at Turku University will present their book "Who’s laughing now? Feminist tactics in social media" at Humlab
Ned Richardson-Little, Samuel Merrill, and Leah Arlaud has recently published an article about how the German radical-right populist party the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland) and its politicians have engaged with the public memory of the East German past via Twitter.
DIGSUM invites you to a workshop with a focus on ethical review of digital research. An invited panel will discuss experiences and dilemmas, as well as good research practices relating to legal and ethical perspectives.
On Friday 2 December, Reuben Binns, Associate Professor of Human Centred Computing, Department of Computing Science, the University of Oxford, will give a talk at Centre for Transdisciplinary AI with the title AI and the Human in the Loophole
The Journal of Digital Social Research (JDSR) is currently looking for papers for a special issue on Methodological Developments in Visual Politics and Protest
Lisa Lindqvist has recently published an article with Simon Lindgren examining Twitter discourses on #Metoo, and the network of related industry-specific hashtags that emerged following #Metoo.
DIGSUM researcher Sam Merrill has recently published an article with Nigel Copsey about digital connectivity between USA and UK Antifa groups on Twitter, and the character of the mediated solidarity conveyed by this connectivity.
Last week, DIGSUM members participated in a roundtable on The Critical Need for Critical AI Research
Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Mathilda Åkerlund have published new work on digital representations of black victimhood in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement on TikTok.