On the 22th of September, DIGSUM researcher Markus Naarttijärvi will be giving a talk on ”TAIGA and CELS-AI – Making sense of the word-soup that helps you do AI research as a social scientist”.

On the 19th of September, Anne Kaun, professor at Södertörn University and external member of DIGSUM’s research project Programmable Politics, will be giving a talk at Humlab, titled “On Prisons, Welfare Service Centers, and Public Libraries: Interfaces and Backends of the Digital Welfare State”.

DIGSUM at Umeå University invite PhD students to take part in our PhD course “Data Science in Social Media Research” (7.5 credits).

DIGSUM is happy to present a new issue of The Journal of Digital Social Research, our open access journal. Trust, Media, and Science in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic is a special issue, edited by guest editors Donya Alinejad, Adriano José Habed, and Jaron Harambam, with a special foreword by José van Dijck.

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).