Associate Professor Eva Mårell-Olsson has published a new paper in IxD&A: Interaction Design and Architecture(s) about how gamification can be used as an online teaching strategy.

Lev Manovich — one of the leading theorists of digital culture worldwide and a pioneer in the application of data science for analysis of contemporary culture — gives a talk, hosted by Humlab at Umeå University, about his new book Cultural Analytics on May 6 2021.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Brooke Foucault Welles who will talk about networks of race and gender justice in hashtag activism.

Yet another DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. It features Deen Freelon talking about Hashtag Heroes vs. Disinfo Dystopia.

We have now posted a video of Hannah Metzler’s DIGZOOM talk in which she presented a study of collective emotions during COVID-19.

Charles Ess’ talk in our DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. He discusses digital ethics, and poses the question of whether one should kick a robot dog.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Deen Freelon who will talk on Hashtag Heroes vs. Disinfo Dystopia:
The Left, the Right, and the Truth About Social Media Activism.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Hannah Metzler who will talk about digital traces of collective emotions during the COVID-19 outbreak.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Sarah T. Roberts who will give a talk based on her decade-long study of the commercial content moderation industry – its people, practices and politics.

DIGSUM director Simon Lindgren gives an online talk, hosted by CAMRI at the University of Westminster on Thursday 18 February.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Charles Ess who will talk about ethical issues in Human-Machine Communication.

The LICT research group is hosting a symposium about remote teaching and online learning on May 19 2021.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is José Van Dijck who will talk about governing public values in a platform society.

This paper uses the Swedish, once neo-Nazi expression culture enricher (Swedish: kulturberikare) as a case study to explore how covert and coded far-right discourse is mainstreamed, over time and across websites.

The current global situation of Covid-19 presents an opportunity to find out if seniors are using digital technology in ways that help them face negative consequences of isolation and if they have started using technology in a more socially connecting way.

The third talk in our DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. It features Nick Couldry talking about media’s role in social order.

Another talk in our DIGZOOM spring 2021 seminar series is now available to watch online. It features Whitney Phillips talking about an ecological approach to online harm.

This week’s DIGZOOM guest is Nick Couldry, who will talk about his theoretical writings on media, first on television, then on social media, and most recently on processes of datafication.

For this week’s DIGZOOM seminar, we welcome Whitney Phillips who will talk on the topic of: The Apex Predator President: Using Ecological Metaphors to Reframe Harm Online.

The Wallenberg Foundations (MMW) have approved funding for the 5-year DIGSUM project Cyborg Politics: A study of artificial agents in online democratic deliberation.