Department of Sociology Research Fellow and DIGSUM Member, Sam Merrill is happy to announce the recent publication of a volume dedicated to social movements, cultural memory and digital media.

VR (The Swedish Research Council) has approved funding for the DIGSUM project Algorithms of Resistance: Analysing and harnessing anti-racist activism in the age of datafication, which will run between 2020 and 2022.

The 2019 DIGSUM Day was held on October 1 in Umeå University’s MIT building.

Vasili Mankevich, PhD of Informatics affiliated with DIGSUM and SCDI, successfully defended his PhD thesis Digital Innovation Management: Investigating Digital Trace Data in Online Communities.

DIGSUM’s European collaborative project HARVEST, recently held a meeting at one of its partner institutions, The Catholic University of Milan.

DIGSUM helped host a themed day of presentations at Umeå University on the topic of AI and social science.

DIGSUM PhD student Moa Eriksson Krutrök presents her thesis manuscript on Digital Aftermaths of Terror.

DIGSUM affiliate, and member of our research cluster on Digital Law, Markus Naarttijärvi has won the Best Paper Award at the conference TILTing Perspectives 2019: 'Regulating a world in transition' in Tilburg, Germany.

Photo: Ulrika Bergfors

Three members of DIGSUM’s Digital Sociology group - Simon Lindgren, Sam Merrill and Mathilda Åkerlund - presented their research at the Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism at Oslo University recently.

Moa Eriksson Krutrök and Simon Lindgren of DIGSUM and the Department of Sociology have published a new study of social media use in the aftermath of terror attacks. The paper published in the journal Social Media + Society looks at how such attacks are discussed and dealt with on social media through users' concurrent employment and reiteration of hashtags related to high-profile attacks.

Researcher Jenny Madestam of Södertörn University was a speaker today at DIGSUM’s symposium on "Digitalisation, democracy and participation".

Today Charles Ess visits DIGSUM's and Humlab's PhD course "Digital Research" for a lecture and workshop on ethics.

The Wallenberg Foundations have approved funding for the DIGSUM research project EndoSisters: Information work and peer-support in a digitally embodied patient movement — a three-year project analysing the online patient movement related to endometriosis, a chronic gynaecological condition affecting 10% of women.

We welcome Anton Törnberg (University of Gothenburg) and Petter Törnberg (Chalmers) to a seminar on December 1 (13:15, C304, BVH) , co-hosted with the Department of Sociology and DIGSUM's Digital Sociology research group. The seminar has the title of Complexity and the Digital World, and will contain both theoretically and empirically applied elements.

DIGSUM has been successful in getting funding within the JPI-MYBL Joint Transnational Call for proposals 2017 for "Ageing and Place in a Digitising World”. The programme, headed by professor Simon Lindgren, goes under the acronym of HARVEST (eHealth and Ageing in Rural Areas: Transforming Everyday Life, Digital Competences, and Technology).

Photo: Elin Berge

On May 30th, we hosted the first DIGSUM-day, a one-day conference aiming to promote networking and the exchange of knowledge among DIGSUM's research groups. We plan this to be an annually recurring event, and we encourage you to mark off May 17th 2018 in your calendars!

DIGSUM welcomes you to a research seminar about exposure to online hate among teenagers and young adults on February 16 at 13:15 in S-507 (Samvetet).

Two of DIGSUM’s research groups – Learning and ICT (LICT) at the Department of Education, and Digital Didactic Design (DDD) at Applied Educational Sciences – have been granted funds, starting 2017, of 4.5 million SEK from Umeå School of Education.

The first DIGSUM seminar will take place in Samvetet from 13:15 on Thursday 26th January. Anne Kaun (Södertörn University) will talk to the title 'Data Times: The Temporalities of Digital Media'.